as a professional photographer, chad blakely can tell them how to get good ones. : for aurora photography, we're taking five, ten, twenty -- sometimes thirty-second exposures. because of that, if we tried to hold the camera, it would shake, so we need our friend, the tripod. reporter: dressed for arctic temperatures and equipped with cameras and safety lamps, they head out into the darkness. the weather forecast is optimistic. the two bank employees from singapore are hopeful. serene: we've never seen it before, and we've heard that it's actually the peak now, so we just want to try our luck. ann: we heard that it's really beautiful, and it's a must-see thing, like, you must see it in your life. reporter: the less ground-light the better -- that includes the video lights. suddenly, the sky lights up in green. even the experienced photographer has lost none of his sense of wonder -- as if he were seeing it for the very first time. john: this is fantastic. i've second exposures. this is absolutely unbelievable. reporter: the aurora borealis draws row upon row of glow

it is called chads for blake, a small pond. there are footprints here where the first responders went in to find the gentleman. unfortunately, it was a sad outcome. news chopper 7 shows ice covered at least part of chadsdorf lake, the desperate search for a man who fell in shortly before 3:00. there is a steep embankment on the side where he was last seen. first responders initially used a pontoon boat before divers went in. they were in the water about an hour before they found the man underwater. unfortunately, his wife saul rescuers pulled the man out. >> they tried to resuscitate him, bring him back. they were working. they took him in the ambulance. richard: we should note most of the ice is gone but you see the milky quality of the water. first responders worked hard to get him out. they transported him to the hospital where he was declared dead. again, trying to figure out why this happened in the first place. live from brady one, richard reeve, abc 7 news. leon: the man suspected in a spree of highway shootings will sta