Welcome to my website! I’m a sixty-something gentleman of English upbringing, though I am in fact also half-Irish, and have lived in Northern Ireland since 2003 when I married Jude. We live on the Antrim Coast in a lovely house owned by our cat Ollie.
I am a 6-year Past President of the Irish Astronomical Association (IAA) and in 2019 I took up the Chair of the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies for 3 years having been Secretary for the previous 5 years. I am currently Vice-Chairman of that group. I have also been Webmaster of the IAA since 2009 and this site has evolved through HTML/CSS, Drupal 7 and WordPress incarnations over the years.
I took up photography initially in 1971 using my father’s Exa 1B camera then had a succession of cameras of my own – A Kodak Instamatic 33, Cosmic 35, Iloca rangefinder, Pentax PC35 AF-M, then in the late ’80s I went into SLRs with a Minolta X-300.
I work as an Operations Engineer in the TV and Radio business having pursued a varied career which has included IT management in both Projects and Support capacities in various organisations, though I’ve always managed to end up back in Broadcasting – there is no escape! I have now gone part-time with a view to adjusting my work-life balance.
With that in mind, I have taken on a new venture as a Volunteer STEM Ambassador working with Armagh Observatory & Planetarium to advance Space and Astronomy Education in the Schools and Institutions of Northern Ireland.
Paul Evans, Ballygally, December 2025