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“I climb hills and scramble down to a remote beaches, anywhere to get a good photo. I must have seen the northern lights about 50 times and every time still feels like the first. No two shows are the same but each one is perfection.”

He also uses time-lapse photograph to produce short films some of which have been viewed nearly 350,000 times on YouTube. Thurso cinema even asked to screen them alongside the usual offering of Hollywood blockbusters.

It’s an indication of the growing interest in the aurora borealis, say the hunters. Social networking sites where they avidly share information and photographs are getting increasing numbers of visitors. They’re keen to share the love.

“We want people to know what they can see in the skies here,” says Michael Beales, a government worker from Wick. “We post pictures on Facebook and people don’t believe they were taken in this country. That’s changing now and it’s great.

“A few years ago they’d only be a few of us out there night after night, now more and more people are turning up. They might just be inquisitive but that’s how most of us started, thinking we’d come out for a night or two and just see what all the fuss is about. Look at us now.”