Days End

I am very keen on astrophotography, atmospherics and nature photography.The passion for photography has been with me for 50 odd years and is still as strong as ever.My first camera was a 127 format given to me when I was 8yrs old, my father showing us how to develop film, in the bathtub, needless to say it became stained much to my mothers annoyance.I guess my profession, Radiography, was a natural way to combine taking pictures with a hobby, most radiographers in my training years had cameras so we all took photos and compared them, always striving to outdo each other. I have always had an interest in Infra-Red photography and we used to play around with IR film in the B&W days, of course we have advanced so much in the digital world of IR I had my camera converted for IR only...it was a bonus as the exposures are as if it was a white light camera. Fast shutter speeds and the resulting images are sometime bad but mostly intriguing. One can spend many hours manipulating the images to get the desired effect to make an outstanding photograph. I now have my weather station Davis Vantage Pro2 on a pole above the roofline. The weather camera is about to be attached to the pole and as it covers 160 degrees and pointing SW we should have a good vista of the sky.