About Me

I have been employed in radio and/or television since I was 19 years old, spending many years as a rock ‘n roll disc jockey before turning to television weathercasting in 1981. In 1982 I went back to college to get my degree in Atmospheric Physics (Meteorology). Since I only needed 9 or 10 hours in my final semester, I enrolled in a beginning Astronomy class just for fun. I have been fascinated with deep space ever since.

A few years ago, my wife Elaine bought me a nice telescope for Easter, after she figured out that was what I really wanted the previous Christmas. The following year she enrolled me for a night in the Nightly Observing Program at Kitt Peak, near our Tucson home. During a break in the activities, imaging guru Adam Block introduced himself to me. I had no idea who Adam was, but after the program Adam and I talked at length and he showed me some of his images. He invited me to spend the night on Kitt Peak sometime when he was imaging. About six months later I took him up on his offer. It was that one evening that got me hooked on astrophotography.

During the next year I read everything I could get my hands on about astrophotography, participated in workshops on imaging and processing (including Adam’s “Making Every Pixel Count” workshop) & slowly collected the equipment and software I needed to CCD image. We also built a roll-off roof observatory onto our home as a room edition.

I am very pleased with the quality of the initial images that I am taking and processing. It just blows my mind that I can take a beautiful image of a galaxy, knowing that the light for that image left that particular galaxy 40 or 50 million years ago. I will never be able to afford the high-end telescope & camera at the dark location that it takes to make some of these remarkable images that we see published in some of the magazines. I just want to become talented enough to get the very best from the equipment and resources I have.

I hope you enjoy my pretty pictures.

Jimmy