Here’s the Go-Public time.

Exactly a year after my Great Orion shots that pushed me to go on with astrophotography

It has been a journey I must say. Starting stargazing and then shooting, there was a lot to learn and I’m not finished.

I share that with my peers in the astro-club : sometimes it is harsh. Bad weather, discovering limits of your setup, discovering your own limits, forgetting sometimes the first elementary moves before trying to take shots because you are in a hurry, spending hours to find the targeted object because you’re misaligned … so many variables for a bad night.

As I already said in a previous post, I’m lucky to have a wild spot at 10min drive. Wild animals (foxes, deers, cows, owls and scary noises from the not-so-far woods…) are enlightening my bad nights. And sometimes, you have some kind of stars alignement (figuratively and literally) when your shots will be good enough to get a satisfactory breath : I got it ! And it is finally ok ! And then comes the strength to fight your limits and aiming for better.

Nineteen (th of March) is a weird number. I had really bad moments with it, but also some of the most beautiful in my life. You see, I have been in a desert this past week and I expected to get a great picture for this anniversary … it didn’t happen, I got rain in the desert … nothing to complain as you can’t fight against the weather (while you should go harder on some other fights, but I’m disgressing) At the same time, flying back, my astro-equipment bag has been forced and opened (but the thief didn’t take anything … maybe he didn’t get what was in there …) BUT I got my logos from Stef and Fabian … and it is the picture I’ve chosen for going public.

I hope you’ll find some sparkles in your eyes on some shots, and some advices from my discoveries. At the right scale, we are even smaller than atoms compared to the Universe, and I feel it is crazy amazing to catch some small pieces of our sky. Hopefully it would give you the small impulse needed to bring back your dreams as a kid (what happened to me).

A lot of astronomers from all levels are saying it so here’s the moto : Clear skies to all. (figuratively and literally)