Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 - Greenwich Observatory

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #1 30-07-2013, 10:47 PM

Well time for some bragging!

John Sarkissian from the Parkes Observatory emailed me today congratulating myself and Mark Sidonio on having our images chosen for use in publicity for the announcement of the shortlisting of images in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 competition! Well done Mike too!

And John sent a link to the London Telegraph main front webpage where my photo was selected as the image to advertise the story!! Wow! It's as good as getting it on the front page of the newspaper itself!

Clicking on that image took me to the gallery of 12 selected images from the shortlisting (see below), where mine was shown first too!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...?frame=2630406

I took the image straight after the 2012 David Malin Awards dinner and the red light at bottom left is Alex Cherney's camera setup!

As you can probably tell I'm a tad chuffed with this!

I'll be very happy with just having this honour if I don't win anything, and I don't expect to.

Now the dilemma... do I fly over once again to the awards night in September (I did last year and it was great but no prize). Hmmm.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #2 31-07-2013, 12:14 AM

Congratulations, to both of you.
I do think they should let any overseas winners know, in strict confidence, if they have won. so they can plan their trip. Don't you think?

iceman (Mike) · #3 31-07-2013, 05:20 AM

Well done Wayne! I saw it yesterday too. Looks fantastic. I'm a real fan of that image!

OneCosmos (Chris) · #4 31-07-2013, 06:23 AM

A truly awesome image. Congratulations.

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #5 31-07-2013, 10:30 PM

Haha yeh well maybe let them know if they at least have a placing in the top 3 for a category. Then at least no one knows still who won exactly.

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Congratulations, to both of you.
I do think they should let any overseas winners know, in strict confidence, if they have won. so they can plan their trip. Don't you think?

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #6 31-07-2013, 10:32 PM

And thank jjjnettie, Mike and Chris!

Paul Haese · #7 31-07-2013, 10:35 PM

Hey nice stuff Wayne and Mike. I made two images in the shortlist but not sure how well my images would have went in the final judging which was just a day ago. It will be a long month or so waiting to find out.

Paul Haese · #8 31-07-2013, 11:16 PM

Seen one of my solar images here, that might mean from experience that I have not won anything for this image. I note my Saturn image has not shown up in the press releases yet. That is interesting. Exciting times.

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #9 01-08-2013, 04:15 PM

I think a couple of images they used for publicity still got commendations last year, but not won categories, so there may be something in that. Still, you never know and I'd be ecstatic if they ended up using mine on merchandising!

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Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Seen one of my solar images here, that might mean from experience that I have not won anything for this image. I note my Saturn image has not shown up in the press releases yet. That is interesting. Exciting times.

Peter Ward · #10 01-08-2013, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Adelastro1

Well time for some bragging! ....

And why not? Well deserved!

I rather like how you got the shot of the milky way lined up with "the dish" ...a clever concept

I'm hoping they are saving the best

for last

...if not there's always next year (Northern lights seem to do well

)

Forgey (Paula) · #11 01-08-2013, 06:23 PM

Congrats Wayne, stunning image! Head over again you know you want to

Paul Haese · #12 01-08-2013, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Adelastro1

I think a couple of images they used for publicity still got commendations last year, but not won categories, so there may be something in that. Still, you never know and I'd be ecstatic if they ended up using mine on merchandising!

Yeah that is true.

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #13 02-08-2013, 12:59 AM

Thanks Peter. Yes the lining up worked out well and I thought it would make an interesting image. Thankfully The Dish was pointing the right way!
So are you saying that you have an image or two shortlisted?! Good luck if so!
Yes auroras do well but if you scroll through all the entries on flickr there are vast numbers of aurora shots (last year and this) so I don't think it's not surprising.

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Originally Posted by Peter Ward

And why not? Well deserved!

I rather like how you got the shot of the milky way lined up with "the dish" ...a clever concept

I'm hoping they are saving the best

for last

...if not there's always next year (Northern lights seem to do well

)

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #14 02-08-2013, 01:00 AM

Thanks! You and your mother won't be there this time though! Say hello to her too!

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Originally Posted by Forgey

Congrats Wayne, stunning image! Head over again you know you want to

Peter Ward · #15 02-08-2013, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Adelastro1

Thanks Peter. Yes the lining up worked out well .........
So are you saying that you have an image or two shortlisted?! Good luck if so!

No worries. I have to say the level of images, like the Malin's is now getting stratospheric, I've got one shortlisted, but, who know's what catches the judges eyes....

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #16 02-08-2013, 06:00 PM

I couldn't agree more! I thought that before this year's Malins and wasn't too surprised that I didn't get any awards this year. Anyone can buy a resonable camera and take great photos, night or day, now.
Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Peter Ward

No worries. I have to say the level of images, like the Malin's is now getting stratospheric, I've got one shortlisted, but, who know's what catches the judges eyes....

strongmanmike (Michael) · #17 03-08-2013, 05:02 PM

Just for fun...(errr..and I hope I get a look in too of course

) This is my pick as the winner this year..it's just such a work of art...

You heard it here first

Mike

Paul Haese · #18 03-08-2013, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Just for fun...(errr..and I hope I get a look in too of course

) This is my pick as the winner this year..it's just such a work of art...

You heard it here first

Mike

Yep that is a great image of Marco's, will be interesting to see what wins this year.

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #19 03-08-2013, 10:53 PM

Yes indeed. And importantly it would look great on merchandising and posters!!

I think they definitely judge images with that in mind, ie. to make money!

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Just for fun...(errr..and I hope I get a look in too of course

) This is my pick as the winner this year..it's just such a work of art...

You heard it here first

Mike

Adelastro1 (Wayne England) · #20 07-08-2013, 02:08 AM

Now even more publicity. Wow! This time the Sydney Telegraph. Not sure about the corny headline though!

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1226692414055

And the Independent in London ran it last week too:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...r-8737624.html

It's great to see these publications running stories like this on astrophotography, which is what I always push for to publicise everyone's work when given the chance, just usually more locally though!