Astronomer portraits

[mac (Matt)]

I recently spent a few days holidaying at a beach campground in Taranaki, and had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know a professional photographer who's involved in astronomy, and has recently worked on a set of portraits of influential astronomers.

The portraits are on his website here:

http://www.maxalexander.com/astronomy/

The captions make for some really interesting reading!

[AstralTraveller (David)]

That is very interesting. I like the way each portrait is different and thge setting somehow relates to the astronomer's field of research.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Excellent

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Thanks for the Matt

Brilliant!

Cheers Petra d.

[Liz]

Wowow!! Absolutely fantastic!! Will have to go through them again, as so much interesting info there, and spectacular photos.

Loved the quote next to Professor Alan Watson -
'We are all in the gutters
but some of us are looking at the stars.'

Thank you Matt.

[Rainingstar (Lorraine)]

Beautifully composed portraits and very interesting information. Thanks

[sjastro]

Fascinating stuff.

Steven

[Peter Ward]

Thanks for the heads up! What a wonderful human face to the IYA that is about to close.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Fascinating, very interesting. Thanks! It's the kind of thing I think would be good as a touring exhibition.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Great Portraits there.

Cheers Kev.

[BerrieK]

What a fantastic collection of photos and information. I didn't realise that Brian May was a scientist as well as an amazing musician.

Thanks for the link.

Kerrie

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

"Galactic Archeologist". What a title! Great photos.

[mac (Matt)]

Ha ha yep, if I'd known that Max had photographed Brian May, I would've asked him what he was like as a person.

[Jen]

niceeeeeeeee