I will be presented at the gallery of the Royal Observatory of Greenwich this year (International Astronomy Year). If you are in the area, or will be traveling to the UK then click here for directions.

 

 

One of my shots Bow Of Orion

 

 

made it to the final shortlist of the competition which ran all over the world and received shots from over 450 photographers worldwide.

 

 

 

I have not yet been informed if I am the grand prize winner ($2500/title of astrophotographer of the year) but I will be being exhibited at the gallery between September 09th, 2009 to January 10th, 2010.

 

 

 

I'm very excited to hear the winning results but am otherwise overjoyed at the press I have been receiving all over the world. People are blogging and talking about this image and really appreciating it, like I intended it to be when I shoot all of my photographs.

 

 

 

That said, please do not take these images straight off the web and print them yourself! For one thing it's difficult to do without the proper printing equipment, in order to bring out the true resolution and image that was captured, and I do need to make a living in order to keep creating and enriching peoples' lives with these prints! Thanks, but feel free to make it your desktop if you want.

 

 

 

I am hoping to hear of the selection of the winner of the competition in the next few days..judging on that I will decide whether or not I can afford to take to go over and see the exhibit with my own eyes. I'd love to but it's very very very expensive to travel to the UK and stay. If I were to win first place I would use the money towards buying an ultra-good lens that i have my eye on, specifically for aurora photography.

 

 

 

If not then I will still try to buy this lens when it makes itself available.

 

 

 

Just a few more days now...

 

From my website at:

 

http://www.synergystudiosphotography.com/blog/2009/9/4/astrophotographer-of-the-year.html

 

Also Facebook fanpage:

 

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Fort-Smith-NT/Synergy-Studios-Photography/126888253967?ref=mf

 

 

 

magazine newscientist

 

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/nmm-astronomer-of-year/4

 

guardian UK newspaper

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2009/aug/28/astronomy-photographer-year-2009?picture=352252465

Great shot, I hope you get 1st place :twss:

Copy and paste :P

 

 

 

Great photo nonetheless! Hopefully you will come first and get some money. Good luck. :thumbup:

Hehe, I PM'ed you about this on flickr :P

I was waiting for you to post again :D I'm roughly 43 miles away if I go up the M25, so I'm sure that I could manage to go and see it :)

Ahh beautiful, this is some truly inspiring stuff.

 

My photography teacher asked us to bring in some photos and do a few minutes presentation of a photographer and you sprang up in my mind because I never really forgot those Aurora photos you posted before

Awesome shot, I would really like to see that in RL

That photos in the paper im reading!! (Metro)

 

 

 

I thought it looked familiar. Nice photo aswell.

Absolutely stunning photo. I'm also very jealous as I went to Iceland a few years ago and I really hoped to see the aurora borealis but we saw nothing until the last night and it was only a slightly greeny-blue hue to the sky :( Good work, I've seen the picture before and never knew it was taken by someone from Tip.It :D

Thanks guys sorry for the copy and paste..I suck taking pictures of myself as much as I do writing about myself, lol.

 

 

 

Metro news is running it too? Didn't know that, but cool ! Have you got a link to the article? They have a transferable licensing agreement with me, so it'll be literally spreading everywhere (all around the world) :D

I was waiting for you to post again :D I'm roughly 43 miles away if I go up the M25, so I'm sure that I could manage to go and see it :)

 

Sweet! Be at the presentation for me on the 9th (couple of days) :D I'll be over there within the next couple of months :( but won't be able to see it right now.

Hehe, I PM'ed you about this on flickr :P

 

And thanks so much :D

 

Ahh beautiful, this is some truly inspiring stuff.

 

My photography teacher asked us to bring in some photos and do a few minutes presentation of a photographer and you sprang up in my mind because I never really forgot those Aurora photos you posted before

 

Aww thank you that means a lot :)

 

 

 

Absolutely stunning photo. I'm also very jealous as I went to Iceland a few years ago and I really hoped to see the aurora borealis but we saw nothing until the last night and it was only a slightly greeny-blue hue to the sky :( Good work, I've seen the picture before and never knew it was taken by someone from Tip.It :D

 

 

 

Just goes to show how many cool people there are on here, eh?

I'll see what I can do. I can't drive yet, so it relies on being able to get a lift to see it, or perhaps a train.

I've talked to you about your gallery on RS... ;)

Simply amazing. I absolutely love aurora photos as I have never actually seen them. Really hope you win!

 

 

 

Great shot!

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.htm ... page_id=34

 

 

 

Here you go, good luck!

Thanks for the support all! :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Guess who won?

 

Highly commendable :D position! Not bad..about 3rd place equivalent !

 

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/ ... e/#panel-4

 

:thumbsup:

Nice man, congratulations on winning the £50 :thumbsup:

Awesome, congratulations.