{"id":48564,"date":"2011-11-10T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=48564"},"modified":"2011-11-10T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:30:09","slug":"about-our-photographer-anthony-ayiomamitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/about-our-photographer-anthony-ayiomamitis\/","title":{"rendered":"About our photographer: Anthony Ayiomamitis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Pleiades have been talking to a lot of people lately. This is an open cluster of many, many more than 'seven sisters', a relatively young group of stars located about 380 light years from Earth, photographed in December 2007 in Athens by Anthony Ayiomamitis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year we’ve been honored to publish the work of Anthony Ayiomamitis<\/a>, someone I consider to be one of the world’s leading ‘amateur’ space photographers. Anthony doesn’t get access to the Hubble Telescope or the Cassini probe — he works from his back yard in Athens, or travels around Greece chasing the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. The photos that first caught my eye were his images of Greek antiquities with the Full Moon behind them, like the one we published earlier today. These astonishing images, which are the perfect blend of heaven and Earth, can take him months or years to create (the conditions have to be just right, and they require talent, travel, luck, persistence, and practice, not to mention a lot of very fancy gear).<\/p>\n

Anthony is one of those rare astronomers who has no bias against astrology and is always willing to listen to my theories. I’ve stayed up late many nights corresponding with him about his work, the nature of the objects he photographs and lately the Greek financial crisis. We’re proud to consider Anthony one of our own photographers. He’s passionate about what he does, he’s driven (and I do mean a force of nature) to create amazing work that vibrates with respect and appreciation for existence. He has the distinction of having photographed fully half of the known analemmas<\/strong><\/a>, images that require exposing the photograph on one piece of film over the course of a year — that is the challenge. <\/p>\n

He doesn’t like to give interviews, but he has given me his birth data, and one of these days I’ll do his chart in this space.<\/p>\n

Anthony — thanks for all the amazing photos. We love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year we’ve been honored to publish the work of Anthony Ayiomamitis, someone I consider to be one of the world’s leading ‘amateur’ space photographers. Anthony doesn’t get access to the Hubble Telescope or the Cassini probe — he works from his back yard in Athens, or travels around Greece chasing the Sun, the Moon … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}