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Originally Posted by Tandum
Ian, do you have any examples of your work at all?
I did a search in the images area on this forum and found nothing.
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I have never posted my images on any forum. Nor have done any imaging lately (since joining IIS) except of Comet McNaught (last year after a break from imaging and much observing - that comet was too nice an object and too bright to pass up the chance of imaging it , been many years since we had such a spectacular comet visible at our latitude.
Never really felt the desire to publish my images or to share them with anyone but my family , this simply is not what motivates me.
A long time ago - I used to share my images at meetings of the Astronomical Society of the Hunter many many many moons ago. I guess then I was looking for encouragement and compliments on my images. That doesn't interest me now.
My main aims in my imaging was nova hunting , comet seeking and other scientific reasons (variable stars etc) , not so much to produce pretty pictures. So most my negatives have never been printed - you can see more in the negative under magnification than you'll ever see in a positive image.
And I've only recently converted over from 35mm and medium format film photography to digital and not yet turned my new 40D on the sky. No rush there, the sky will always be there and I'll get around to it sooner or later again.