NGC6188

Photo Club “Winner”

 in Blog  tagged fine art / NGC6188 / Photo Club PDX

Feeling the need to be more artistic in my photography, I recently joined a new photo club in Portland, “Photo Club PDX” (PCPDX).  They have regular monthly meetings and present a challenge to members – meant to inspire and/or cajole you into trying something different.  The first challenge for me was #10, in which we had to pretend we were submitting work to a gallery, selecting 5 recent photos and writing an artist’s statement.  The club then recruited 4 professionals to judge the submissions.  Since I haven’t done any non-astro photos for a long time, I decided to submit some […]

NEAF Report – And More Images from Down Under

 in Blog  tagged Australia / NEAF / NGC3293 / NGC3324 / NGC6188

NEAF (Northeast Astronomy Forum) was great fun, as I imagine it is every year.  As you can see from this photo, I was mainly showing my backlit film prints, and they attracted a lot of attention.  At the rate orders are coming in now I’m going to be pretty busy for a while. I also showed my “Mister T” adapter and the PerfectStar B focus control system.  This picture was taken fairly early in the show, and I was using MaxIm DL to show how focus control works.  But my booth was right next to Main Sequence Software, who have […]