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Composite photograph of a man standing in awe of the Helix Nebula, one of the planetary nebulas closest to Earth. The Helix Nebula, six hundred ninety light years away, was captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Mosaic II Camera on the four-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

When I moved to Kodiak, Alaska in May of 1980, I wasn't there a day when I called my dad (the "photo-bug" of the family) and told him to send me a camera, any camera, and send it quick. The camera was from a camera company I'd never heard of before or since (Bessler), but more importantly I was well on my way into the wonderful world of photography. Astronomy has always been another "love of my life", and I think it shows in a lot of the composite photos shown here. About a dozen years ago my youngest brother Joe told me I should get into computers and this thing called Photoshop. Told me it was right up my alley in what I tried to take "in camera". I flat out told him I already had 2 hobbies that were costing me thousands of...