About Me

First off, I don’t have any background in science or astronomy. But I have always been fascinated by space and planets and all that exists beyond our little blue globe. I’m a designer by occupation but my heart lies in the sciences and fields of research. (Sadly, my pathetic mathematical skills made this an illogical course for me to pursue come college time. Thus: art degree.) I especially enjoy the photographic views of exotic locations around our solar system and beyond that the most recent orbiters, rovers and satellite observatories have been able to provide. So much more than the grainy images sent back by the previous generations of devices, though groundbreaking in their own right, these modern cameras capture stunning images in unprecedented detail, showcasing the amazing variations of scenery to be found on the little points of light we see in our night sky.

I think I'll take up space...

Several years ago, I came across a widget application on the Apple downloads page called “Riding With Robots”. This was a connection to a site built by Bill Dunford, a photographer and space enthusiast. There he would post daily photos featuring the latest images from the robotic missions around our solar system, along with a brief description and links to further reading, and a comments section for the readers. I came to enjoy his site a lot, and entered comments fairly frequently at first, until the layout format changed and it became a little less easy to do so for a time. (I do have a tendency to be tragically lazy.) Regardless, I followed his entries religiously, as they gave me an outlet for my far-reaching imagination while sitting at a desk all day long and offered a daily perspective on our universe one rarely ever gets, if at all.

When the RwR site suddenly had a post about Bill’s “signing off”, due to personal reasons, I was devastated. It was like a door to the outside was being shut and locked. It wasn’t an hour later that I decided to try to continue the theme myself, on a new site, and after contacting Bill and getting his blessing and some of his resource info, Lights in the Dark was soon up and running. And I have to say I’m having a great time of it.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Thanks to Mr. Dunford for all his work over the years. Without him, this site wouldn’t exist. I’d never have thought of it myself. And he provided me with a lot of the resources to “hit the ground running.” And thanks to WordPress too….it’s easy, it’s fast and it’s free (so far), so making the site was a snap. (Did I mention I’m not a web designer?) Plus the recent addition of the Vigilance theme gave me a design I was finally happy with, and able to make custom headers for it too. (Expect this to change often. I’m not one to keep a design for very long.) And big thanks to all my readers who keep me motivated to update at least every day. I’m happy to see a decent turnout of visitors. Feel free to leave comments. I like dialog.

If you have any questions, or suggestions, about anything on this site or ideas as to how I could make it better, contact me at jmajor@lightsinthedark.com.

And as always, keep looking up.

- Jason