I have been an avid amateur astro-photographer since the mid 1990's, and did a lot of early work with film. Since I live in the mid-west, the opportunities for good seeing are not great, so I try to execute photographs during summer vacations to the south and west. A radar engineer by profession, I mostly specialized in wide field astrophotography, as well as pictures of the sun, moon, eclipses, and planets, especially conjunctions.