Night Photography
3rd place winner

I was a young child when I gazed through a telescope and saw Saturn's rings and Jupiter's cloud belts and moons. They appeared as jewels laid upon a black velvet cloth backdrop. That memory lives with me and later in life I became enamored with the night sky and what it contained. This series represents some objects that are present in our night sky and that are actually cover quite a bit of sky area. However, they are faint and only long duration photographs can capture their details and colors. My field of view is quite large and for some of these images 60 full moons could be placed in the field of view.

I'm an amateur photographer specializing in the night sky. I have received some awards for my photography and have been featured in magazines and my work has also appeared in astronomy books. My photography was placed on hold for many years due to my career. However, at the end of 2017, I resumed my night sky photography. My image of the Great Planetary Conjunction of 2020 was used in Sky & Telescope magazine's April 2021 edition as the best image of the conjunction.