I almost never enter photography contests, but I just made an exception to that rule for the Washington Post. One of the contest rules was the image had to be taken within the past 12 months. While submission of a birding image might seem obvious, I decided to provide a photograph taken last November of the Davidson Windmill and the Northern Lights. Here is the image I submitted. In my comments to the Washington Post I noted that I practice realism in my photography. Thus, this photo closely represents what I saw that night last November with my naked eye. I did NOT run up the ISO thereby allowing my camera to record something different than what was showing in the heavens above! 
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Beautiful photo!
Looks like a winner to me!
Dear 365: Great photo of Jacob Tapola Davidson’s windmill in old Brule, Wisconsin! Jacob arrived in the South Range in 1886 from Finland and began construction of the windmill in about 1900. If aurora borealis in northern Minnesota is called Northern Lights, should Northern Lights in South Range actually be called Southern Lights? That’s a bit of South Range humor. See you in the sauna on Saturday night!
so beautiful- keep us posted!