While I have always been interested in Astronomy from an observing perspective, I didn't have the means to really get serious about my interest until 1999. Since then I've been dragging my family, food and equipment up to Mount Kobau since 2000, in the pursuit of a reasonable digital astrophoto.

I have been fortunate that when I expressed the idea to my wife that I'd like to get a telescope, her reply was that she wanted to see things in colour - her knowing full well that this would require a suitable camera. My wallet has been suffering ever since.

Living in the Lower Mainland, I feel like a bit useless trying to support the Mount Kobau Star Party, but recently I have came up with an orienteering course to provide a small daytime distraction on the mountaintop and am the author of the Daytime Photo Contest form and rules. So far the Daytime Photo Contest hasn't really taken off, but hopefully it's just a matter of getting the word out more :-) Another was I reduce my uselessness is as the current Secretary and one of the National Reps. for RASC Vancouver Centre.

Other than the above I'm an IT guy who's worked at a couple of places, who has a fun time constantly reconciling the attributes of being a detail orientated, big picture thinker. (If that seems to you a contradictory proposition, rest assured that this is not a self-assessment