One photo I'd really love to take is a picture of the northern lights reflected in a still lake, ideally with a small wooden cabin in the frame. I'm a twenty-three-year-old marine biology student from Cebu in the Philippines, so the idea of seeing anything like that is pretty exotic for me.
I'd most like to take it somewhere in northern Norway or Finland, in the middle of winter. I've seen pictures taken in places like that, with green and purple light spread across the sky and snow on the ground, and I've been saving them on my phone for years.
To take it properly, I'd need a lot more than my phone. I'd need a decent camera that works well in low light, a wide lens, and a solid tripod, because you have to leave the shutter open for several seconds and any movement would blur the picture. I'd also need extremely warm clothes, since it can be minus twenty, and quite a lot of patience. Apparently you can wait several nights and see nothing at all.
The reason I want to take it is partly scientific curiosity. I've read about how the lights are created by particles from the sun hitting our atmosphere, and I'd love to see that with my own eyes. But it's also personal. I grew up on a tropical island and I've never even seen snow. Taking that photo would be proof to myself that I'd travelled far beyond what I imagined as a child. I'd print it, frame it, and hang it next to a photo of the beach where I grew up.