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Re: (meteorobs) Guided vs. unguided meteor photography

In a message dated 96-10-17 16:41:45 EDT, you write:

<< Thanks for a really helpful reply, George. And I didn't realize we had a
visual 
 artist on the list, no less! :) BTW, do you have any of your photography
results 
 on the Internet anywhere? The meteor stuff and also your night-time
compositions 
 sound like they'd be worth of a "page" or two on the Web.
 
  >>
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Lew,
Well, I apparently do have some meteor photographs on the internet.  I don't
have any non astronimical "Night time compositions" to submit anywhere.  The
long time exposures that I talked about earlier were of "day time
compositions"...and these aren't in the field of astronomy. The 4 hour star
trail photo with the windmill and trees was basically a test to see what I
can do from this kind of composition....trees move in a breeze...have to back
up and punt or utilize that fact.  Nearly all of the long day time exposures
are somewhat impressionistic with strictly art in mind. There is a friend of
mind on the east coast who has an art business that has asked me to send some
photos. The purpose being to put them on the internet to help enhance her
business in someway.  I don't know how she can use them, but she has about 2
dozen 4X5 transparencies of mine to work with. I just happened to receive
word from her this morning about them...she hasn't had time to get them in
yet, but she will I'm sure. I'll let all who are interested know when this is
done and how to get to them. Most of the stuff she has on hand are my color
4X5 transparencies from the late 1970's. I don't shoot color any more...only
black and white.  Although I think my color work is somewhat exceptional, I
think of my black and whites as even better. These aren't in transparency
form, but I believe I can do that eventually with some serious effort.  If
she gets the first batch on the internet, I will probably dedicate some time
to get my special Black and whites onto 4X5 transparencies. At the present
they are all 16X20's. Most of these are from the late 70's and early 80's. I
still have about a half dozen high quality compositions that I keep
threatening to print up some day into the large format. So far, they are only
in the working 5X7 size. As for other places to see some of my work...I know
Sky and Telescope and Astronomy have a decent number of them in their
files...these are all astronomically related of course.  Although, Astronomy
has kept one of my 4X5 color transparencies on file that just happened to
have a well defined full moon low in the back ground. The rest of the
composition shows an ocean that looks like fog jutting in and out  of a rocky
shoreline with a lighted house in the back ground.  The whole scene is
immersed in a deep blue sky.  Anyhow, Maybe Astronomy some day will use this
because of the moon and everyone will get to see it? Bob recently was
contacted by a lady that wanted some of my meteor pictures to put on the
internet.  I gave him several and just the other day she sent me a thank you
letter thru bob.  In her letter she gave instructions on how to get to them.
I'll quote it below here. As you know meteor pictures are mostly luck tied to
a persistent camera.
"The URL for the Image Gallery is
http://observe.ivv.nasadot gov/observe/image_gallery/image_gallery.html. To get
to the meteor images click on solar system then small bodies." I haven't
looked for them yet...but that's where they suppose to be.
George Z.