I got a Nikon D3100 for christmas. (Yes, we do celebrate, though not in the traditional sense.) I took a basic photography course to learn how to shoot in something other than auto mode. I still have a lot to learn, though. I'm on a work computer so can't access my photos right now (or see any posted in this thread), but I'll try to post some later on in the day when I'm home. I look forward to seeing everyones photos, and the discussions of the star photos have me very curious!
We are are part of nature, built from the same stuff as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. Our protons and neutrons have been around since the earliest times, glued together into heavy elements of long dead ancient suns, blasted out into the universe and resculpted from diffuse interstellar dust clouds by the gentle hand of gravity. When the pattern of atoms known to be you ceases to be, the building blocks will return to the voids of space, and in a billion years or more, they may take their place in another structure so beautiful that a future mind may perceive it to be the work of a god. ~ Brian Cox
