I woke up this morning thinking about some things that should have been more obvious to me the last few days. I will turn 60 years of age this year. I think that will officially make me an old (at least older) man. So I was thinking about the passing of time and the normal cycle of life, etc. And of course, pinhole imaging.
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For better or worse, the steriod drugs I’m taking this week are most probably the biggest driving force in my behavior and decisions. I want to do everything, but of course can only do so many things in one day. Eating meals is a given and a pleasure. And there was much to do to prepare for the short hospital stay - food shop, clean the house, people to talk to, etc. The drugs haven’t distorted decisions too much. But the energy they have given me allowed me to throw in a few extra things that were important to me.
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I’ve been interested in doing a series of pinhole portraits for some time. So far, its never gotten beyond doing some self-portaits as a way to explore things. But with all my new-found energy, I started thinking about it again. I made a self-portait a few days ago with the 8×10 camera I want to use. I know who’s faces I want to capture and how I want to approach the whole thing. It was an odd coincidence that the next day I got a brochure in the mail calling for entries in a local “self-protrait” exhibition. That seemed like a sign to me. (more…)
I anchored a pinhole camera to a tree stump on December 19th of last year. The Winter solstice began on the 21st, so I was a couple of days early. The tree was a nice Holly tree that had been destroyed by a Nor’easter a few weeks before. When I removed the tree, I left a bit of the stump and chopped it off at a slight angle to allow me to mount a camera on it. The camera is still there and opened up, absorbing the changes in light and life that go on around it. I forgot about the camera most of the winter until just recently.
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