Well having got up early to view the the results...they are now hot off the press and I would like to be the first IIS'er to congratulate Mark Gee of Oz for his stunning shot that has won the Earth and Space category and subsequently been crowned Overall Winner in
this years competition, it is a spectacular image that had me mesmerised. Now as you will see there also, not only did Mark win the Earth and Space category/Overall but he also took out the People and Space category with another amazing image of people silhouetted against the rising moon.
As a side note....I was lucky enough to have my image of NGC 253 awarded a Highly Commended in the
Deep Space category and I am very chuffed indeed
Adam Blocks image with the Shulman 0.8m telescope of SH2-239 is pretty spectacular and a worthy winner of this category.
I would like to congratulate all the finalist images there, they are all truly amazing...with no single eyebrow raiser in my opinion (except maybe mine
)
A cool thing too is it appears Mark and I were the two Aussies in the finals so I am very proud of this
HERE's a good BBC video compilation with narration of the winning shots
Mike