[Leica] Jimmie Walker

[Douglas Barry]

He must have access to, or own, a fairly stonking telescope! He'll be now, 
no doubt, buying a bigger one! These are very very impressive.

Mind you, astronomy has always allowed the gifted amateur to make an 
impression. Here in Ireland, we had the Birr Leviathan or the Leviathan of 
Parsonstown which was the largest telescope in the world from 1845 until 
1917. It was built by the Earl of Rosse - one of the Parsons family - on his 
family estate in Co. Offaly. The Parsons were a very talented family as the 
Earl's son Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine - see Turbinia - and 
his mother, the Earl's wife Mary Rosse, was a very talented pioneer 
photographer. Apparently she was introduced to it through someone you may 
have heard of - the Earl's pal William Fox Talbot. Good street cred there 
:-)

There's a closer connection to me in that the Earl died about 250 metres 
from here in Monkstown.

Douglas




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard L Ritter Jr" <hlritter at twc.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Jimmie Walker


> 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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