My Portfolios

My Portfolio Introduction

All Portfolio items are based on Items from my personal Observing Log.  I have observed these, found them, and taken photos or described them in a drawing or sketch.

My Observing Log was started in 1986 and I have continued to add to it to this day.  Usually adding on average 40 to several hundred new items in most years, that is over a 38 year period as of May 2024.  I documented the information first in notebooks and pencil and paper, that was before I had a computer for this purpose. Then as I was able to use a computer, with my laptop.  I scanned/digitized the written records, and then cataloged them along with my Electronic records to produce a book for posterity.  My current observations will form part of the 8th volume of this set of books, for that is what it has now become. 

Also I have used a number of observing methods, from Refractors and Reflectors some of my own and others belonging to the clubs and Organizations that I have been a member of.   In the future I will add more detail about this.   But I do have some of this documented in the Stories that I have written in the "Stories" section of this web site.