Winning with Astrophotography

[Andy01]

Lightning does strike twice it seems.

Last night in Melbourne, I won the title of AIPP Victorian Science, Wildlife and Wild Places Photographer of the Year for 2016. Somewhat incredibly, it's the second year in a row!
All four images entered received Gold awards (90+) one (M8) even getting a coveted Gold award with Distinction (95+).

This category includes professional wildlife, polar and extreme travel photography of the highest standard, but Astrophotography won the day :)

High res files can be found below... and yes, they're all circles again!

http://www.astrobin.com/236484/C/
http://www.astrobin.com/216516/D/
http://www.astrobin.com/143447/B/
http://www.astrobin.com/169902/F/

Thanks again to all on IIS everyone for all your help, honest critiques and advice with creating these images.

Andy

[DJT]

:thumbsup:Well done.

[rustigsmed]

Congrats Andy!!
Good work flying the flag for astrophotographers - as we all know how much effort goes into these images!

Rusty

[Somnium]

well done Andy

[Atmos]

Congratulations Andy! Fantastic :)

[spiezzy]

That Is a awesome achievement Andy you have some images well worthy of your win it certainly makes all that time and effort you put into your images well worth it
I take my hat off to you sir well done .
cheers Pete :eyepop:

[Slawomir]

Congratulations Andy :thumbsup:

Great images BTW!

[vlazg]

Fantastic result. Congratulations

[gregbradley]

Congrats Andy. Great images.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Kudos to you Andy....gotta be in it to win it!

[niharika]

Congrats Andy 👌 Well done

[Andy01]

Many thanks David, Russell, Aiden, Colin, Pete, Suavi, George, Greg, Peter & Raki for your kind comments.

You all continue to inspire me to try harder to get better images, thanks for sharing your knowledge so freely.

Cheers all :thumbsup:
Andy

[sil]

Congratulations, those great images!

[chardie]

great images indeed

[The_bluester]

Great images AC and awards well deserved for the hard work that goes into them.

[Decimus]

Fantastic images, Andy. I keep coming back to look at them. Amazing detail, stunning colours, and immersive. You are a very talented photographer. Congrats on the multiple awards!

Richard

[Andy01]

Cheers Sil, Richard, Paul & Leslie - For most of us Ap is a hobby, some others a passion and an obsession for a few, guess I'm one of the obsessed ones!

Thanks for the positive feedback folks :)