Random Thoughts

Last night was the “Harvest” full moon and Carmela and I headed to downtown Durham to set out a pinhole camera at the base of the “The Major” sculpture in the City Center Plaze. “The Major” is a two-ton bronze bull by Michael Waller and Leia Foushee. It was a clear warm night and there were a few people on the streets. I delayed putting out the camera as the area was well lit and I feared someone would notify the police that I was carefully placing a tin can on the sidewalk of the park. We had a bit of a feel that we were part of a “drop-off/pickup”. But we got over that and placed the camera. As soon as we got to the car to leave, some guy came over to study the bull sculpture. He looked local and I suspect he’d seen the sculpture before. We were pretty sure we’d never see that camera again and headed home. But, the next morning when we returned to the scene, there was the tin can camera, totally unmoved, untouched. Thank you, citizens of Durham!
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March 3rd was the night of the full “worm moon”. I haven’t taken any pinholes of the full moon in several months but the timing was good now. The steroids I’m taking allow me to go without sleep without losing any energy. I have been using a zone plate lately so was curious to see what might come from an exposure of the full moon.
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It was windy and cloudy with occasional sprinkles on Thursday night. The forecast was for more of the same until the early morning, then thunderstorms between 6 am and noon. All and all, not an especially promising night for a moon shot. But, I’ve been wanted to branch out into pinhole lightning images, so I decided to plant a camera anyway. (more…)

Back again. Work was hectic this week. Didn’t get away from it on Tuesday until too late to set out cameras. So on Wednesday I set out two cameras. I didn’t travel far, just to the Manteo waterfront. The sky was perfectly clear, and the forecast was for clear skies all night. (more…)