{"id":114,"date":"2022-02-07T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T09:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/?p=114"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:27:04","slug":"2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/07\/2018\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 G. Bruce Blair Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wally-pacholka\"><strong>Wally Pacholka<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2018-Wally-Pacholka.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115\" width=\"405\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2018-Wally-Pacholka.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2018-Wally-Pacholka-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2018-Wally-Pacholka-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2018-Wally-Pacholka-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Wally Pacholka has had a God instilled passion to enjoy and&nbsp;<\/em><em>photograph the night sky since his early teenage years living in&nbsp;<\/em><em>a small town outside of Montreal Canada. As early as 1964,&nbsp;<\/em><em>armed with a 35mm camera bought from a pawn shop with&nbsp;<\/em><em>paper route money, he amazed his family and friends with&nbsp;<\/em><em>photographs of the night sky that included the surrounding&nbsp;<\/em><em>landscape to give the viewer the same perspective he himself&nbsp;<\/em><em>was seeing while under the dark skies of rural Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When sixteen, his dad moved the family to Long Beach&nbsp;<\/em><em>California and initially it was a great disappointment not to be&nbsp;<\/em><em>able to see and photograph the stars from a dark rural location,&nbsp;<\/em><em>but soon he discovered the fabulous areas of American beauty&nbsp;<\/em><em>know as America\u2019s National Parks. In the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s his&nbsp;<\/em><em>pioneering work of recording celestial events above western&nbsp;<\/em><em>national parks landscapes gave local newspapers and TV&nbsp;<\/em><em>stations the images they needed to promote upcoming meteor&nbsp;<\/em><em>showers and comets to the public in a contextual way they could&nbsp;<\/em><em>relate to. International travel magazines often showcased his&nbsp;<\/em><em>night time national park landscapes promoting the parks but also&nbsp;<\/em><em>promoting beautiful nightscapes as well to a wide audience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wally Pacholka Wally Pacholka has had a God instilled passion to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}