Posted by Gregg Kemp on December 22nd, 2007 — Posted in Diary, Pinhole Photography
Carmela and I placed five cameras around the area to capture the winter solstice through to the summer solstice. Two cameras are on building tops in downtown Durham. Two others are in Chapel Hill on a coffee shop and in the coffee shop. And the fifth one is attached ouside our home in Durham. I especially have big hopes for the two in Downtown Durham and the one inside the coffee shop. I haven’t seen an indoor solor print yet, so this may the first of those. The scene is from behind the coffee bar, looking across to the wall of windows at the front entrance. Only time will tell what comes of these.
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on December 11th, 2007 — Posted in Pinhole Photography, Shooting the Moon
No beavers in this image. But there was an unexplained glow spiraling around. I’m guessing its car lights. But if it was made by car lights, I wonder where the car was going. Dodging a beaver? Chasing the moon? And what the heck is this image anyway? What was I thinking, spending all this time scouting out a location for this shot and then messing up the exposure? I could have stayed home and played with the cats. I could have been practicing on my new guitar. I could have been cruising the Internet. And why is the Internet capitalized? We don’t capitalize television or cable TV, so why is it Internet and not just internet? Oh well, gotta go and get ready for the next full moon and the winter solstice.
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on November 5th, 2007 — Posted in Pinhole Photography, Shooting the Moon
October hosts the “Hunter’s Moon”, also known as the “Moon of Falling Leaves”. This year’s full moon in Durham, North Carolina passed over an overcast, rainy sky. But the next night was clear, so I set out my new “moon rock” camera near downtown Durham to test out the camera. It was a pleasant, warm evening and I was accompanied by Carmela and our good friend Alicia. Alicia had flown down from NY for the weekend, not knowing it was also a full moon pinhole photo night. Dinner at Pop’s later topped off the evening nicely. (click on thumbnail image for larger image) (more…)
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on October 2nd, 2007 — Posted in Art, Life and Cancer, Diary, Pinhole Photography, Spirit of Pinhole
So, I got my radioactive iodine, got some rest, and celebrated by making a camera. Actually I made the camera before I went into the hospital, but now it is actually radioactive (since I touched it).
The hospital trip and treatment was definitely interesting. The radioactive iodine arrived in a lead canister. Josh, the nuclear medicine technican who has been involved with with almost all of my testing and data collection, prepared the iodine. I drank it down and was surprised at what a neutral taste it had. It tasted a bit like burnt ozone (how would I know that?), but not that unpleasant. That was it. Josh left and I waited to throw up. That was the biggest concern everyone expressed - that I would throw up and it would have all been for nothing. And this stuff is expensive. But, I didn’t throw up. I didn’t even feel queezy. (more…)
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