I am a professional astronomer, and I love photography. I like going out with my camera, capturing actions, moments and places that tell us about life and the world around us. With a telescope, I am able to capture the photons coming from distant objects outside our home planet to study them; with my photo equipment, I am able to capture forever a singular, unique instant in the life of our world. In 1989 I got my first camera, a 110 Instamatic camera. Since then, I started doing still photography using both color transparency and negative films. In the early 90s I got my first SLR 35 mm film camera, a Minolta X-300S and in 2004 I got my first SLR digital camera, the Nikon D70, which I have used to take most of my photographs so far. In November 2010, I added a new Digital SLR camera to my equipment: the Nikon D7000. The objectives I use are zoom lenses, spanning the range 18mm-300mm (full frame), in addition to a 500mm mirror lens and a 8mm Fisheye lens.
Last update: 14 March 2017