by messier.palette » Fri Jan 29, 2016 3:37 am
I'm new and so I've only had a chance to look at a few of these submissions so far, but, oh my!!! If these are the submissions from which new APODs get chosen, I don't know how they ever decide. I wouldn't have set any aside that I've seen so far. Thank you everyone who takes these images. Absolutely fantastic work. Your dedication and results are inspiring.
There are so many favs already, in just the final couple of pages that I looked at. For example:
- Gordon Haynes: Horsehead and Flame Nebula (a fresh, artistic look with a lovely interpretive palette)
- Vargas and Poyal: NGC 6888 (a delicate, rusting palette with blue companionship)
- Stephan Studer: NGC 4402 (an ethereal yet sculptual view of an object I've never seen before)
- Göran Strand: The Bridge to Halo (extreme clarity and a beautiful scene)
- Martin Heigan: Light From Our Fav Star (another beautiful composition with amazing grace and clarity)
- Mara Novo-Leite: Milky Way and Star Trails Over Oregon (a fresh look at star trails [which I normally don't take to] and the Milky Way, an inspired, artistic version)
This post is probably already too long, but I'm leaving out so much that I'm grateful for: the two views of sun halos, the Celestial X, the Orion region images in chocolate tones and softened tones, the annotated map of Orion, Gemini, etc., the Barringer Crater, the collage of planets showing their alignments..........
Thank you again to everyone who is out there doing this work.
I'm new and so I've only had a chance to look at a few of these submissions so far, but, oh my!!! If these are the submissions from which new APODs get chosen, I don't know how they ever decide. I wouldn't have set any aside that I've seen so far. Thank you everyone who takes these images. Absolutely fantastic work. Your dedication and results are inspiring.
There are so many favs already, in just the final couple of pages that I looked at. For example:
- [u][b]Gordon Haynes: Horsehead and Flame Nebula[/b][/u] (a fresh, artistic look with a lovely interpretive palette)
- [u][b]Vargas and Poyal: NGC 6888[/b][/u] (a delicate, rusting palette with blue companionship)
- [u][b]Stephan Studer: NGC 4402[/b][/u] (an ethereal yet sculptual view of an object I've never seen before)
- [u][b]Göran Strand: The Bridge to Halo[/b][/u] (extreme clarity and a beautiful scene)
- [u][b]Martin Heigan: Light From Our Fav Star[/b][/u] (another beautiful composition with amazing grace and clarity)
- [u][b]Mara Novo-Leite: Milky Way and Star Trails Over Oregon[/b][/u] (a fresh look at star trails [which I normally don't take to] and the Milky Way, an inspired, artistic version)
This post is probably already too long, but I'm leaving out so much that I'm grateful for: the two views of sun halos, the Celestial X, the Orion region images in chocolate tones and softened tones, the annotated map of Orion, Gemini, etc., the Barringer Crater, the collage of planets showing their alignments..........
Thank you again to everyone who is out there doing this work.