Time Again

A Shaggy Mouse Nudibranch found in
tide pools at Discovery Park in Seattle.

We recently picked up two more pinhole cameras that had been sitting around Seattle all winter long.  One spent about 9 months on the roof of an apartment building in Wallingford, and another spent about 3 months behind a sealed-up military housing unit at Discovery Park.  Both pieces of photo paper came out remarkably wet and sticky, but with intact photos. It was interesting that these cameras which used a much smaller aperture than the previous ones were burned red with the exposure instead of the violet or black of the previous cameras, and it's unclear whether this is due to the lower level of exposure to the sun or the extreme dampness of the photo paper due to the elements.  Curiously, these negatives also required much less correction using color curves than previous exposures.  One lesson that has proved useful in selecting sites for the pinhole cameras is that the subject should be as strongly backlit as possible.  In the case of the abandoned military housing, we selected a site where the pinhole camera would frequently fall directly in the shadow of the subject, which made for a beautiful shot.

Pinhole exposure lasting roughly 9 months on the roof of an apartment building in Wallingford.  Exposed July 2013-April 2014.

Pinhole exposure from Jan 25, 2014 until April 5, 2014.  Boarded-up military housing at Discovery Park.