Thank you, thank you, thank you!
WOW! I am both proud and embarrased that two of my works should have won. I am especially pleased that the one of Eta Carina was produced using the technique developed by the competition's name bearer.
However, the greatest prize for me was an unexpected one. The exhibition of all the entries at SPSP 2012 spurred so much enthusiasm amungst the younger attendees that many of them were inspired to pick up a pencil and paper. Even better, this crush of drawing in turn spurred the organiser of SPSP to hastily put together a junior sketching competition. For all the wonderful telescopes on show, the beautiful photos, the bush land surrounds, it was a collection of sketches that had a instant, tangible influence on kids who are more intune with iPhones and iPods than a pencil and paper! This is the greatest victory, and one that every entrant should be equally proud of. Cheers, to you all for your work!
I am still to see all the entries myself. I wasn't able to attend SPSP 2012. I'll seek to have the entries uploaded to somewhere. In the mean time, I've added my two entries here. I believe it was these two,
. Eta Carina comple and 98% illuminated Moon. Details of these are in the two related sticky threads on sketching in this forum.
Alex.
: clap:
..still great 
you always smiling at SV 
