
When upside down feels right side up.

When upside down feels right side up.

In honor of worldwide pinhole day. One of the reasons to pursue pinhole photography is the surprise you get when you see the results and if there is one thing we all need it is a little surprise.

We can easily recognize that this has a boss…humans.
This panoramic pinhole is one of many versions of the same type of city scene I repeatedly photograph year after year always with a feeling of how unnatural and repulsive the scene of tangled wires and mid-seventies cityscape is. I always ask why? Why photograph this mess? Does this scene provide a needed contrast in my brain so that I can recognize the beauty provided by the natural world? Experience and modern research suggests that the power of what we call the natural world or nature is innate. It is time we stop believing there are two worlds, the natural and the man made, and realize they are one and the same. Get out and enjoy nature.

I really like using a panoramic pinhole camera to make portraits of the cottonwood trees at the local parks. Getting the full height of the tree in the frame always seems a challenge.

We started our hike in Canyonlands NP with fine sunny skies. But it is spring and anything can happen. By the time we finished our hike the sky was dark grey. It was a great hike and the sun sure was trying to break through.

Pinhole of a foggy morning along the coast of Vancouver Island.

If we make time to see we will find that black and white and isolation are mere thoughts, sometimes useful, but not always real.

Messing around with the digital pinhole lens cap on a blustery late march day.

Holga pinhole at sunset.