Catching up on my blog, I’m posting another Lunar triptych from the March 21st full moon. This was a new camera I had built for doing triptychs. The new camera allows some adjustment to the relative view of each pinhole. Actually, it is 3 cameras mounted to a single bracket.
The February 20th night of the full moon was a special treat. It included a total lunar eclipse. I had built a pinhole camera to give me a full 180° image. Its actually a single camera that holds three sheets of film in divided compartments. I had tested the camera only once, using paper negatives, and it checked out OK. On the evening of the full moon, I set it out on my deck. Unfortunately, it was a partly cloudy night, and the clouds were rather thick the first few hours. Then the clouds broke for most of the rest of the evening. The eclipse started around 8 pm and continued until around midnight. The eclipse is charted in the second image. All three pinholes were open the entire night. The azimuth was almost straight up, so the proper viewing of the prints would be to hold them over your head.
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I have one print in the 10th National Krappy Kamera Competition, juried by Jill Enfield. This is an annual competition of prints made with inexpensive cameras using plastic lenses or no lens at all (Holga, pinhole, etc.)
I’m exhibiting 5 lunar prints and one solar print in Chapel Hill this month. I mounted a cookie tin camera on the outside of Bean Traders coffee bar in Meadowmont in December and the manager invited me to exhibit some pinhole photos. I also made a camera for the inside of the bar, on the back wall, to make another solar print. The coffee bar is on a corner, facing southeast and southwest. The outside walls are mostly glass, so the interior solar print should be interesting. Both cameras will be up until the summer solstice in June.