[Leica] Jimmie Walker

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

For LUGgers who may not be intimately familiar with astroimaging, I’d like to point out that those images are not the work of a casual amateur. They are not snapshots, but the equivalent of painstaking view-camera landscapes followed by hours in the darkroom. The quality bespeaks considerable experience, care, and post-processing talent, often or usually done by combining multiple images, sometimes dozens, comprising total exposure times of hours, often accumulated over a span of several nights at the telescope. Jimmy’s name is well known in astroimaging circles, and until reading a note about his PGA win on one of those sites this morning, I had no idea that he’s a professional golfer as well. 

As the work of an amateur (as opposed to the relatively few astroimages that are made by professionals with observatory equipment these days), if they were a golf game, they’d be in a Pro-Am tournament for sure. Jimmy’s the Richard Man, even Ansel Adams, of the night sky!

—howard




> On Aug 1, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Photographs by the golfer who won the PGA championship yesterday:
> 
> http://jwalk.smugmug.com/
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
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