Pinhole

Pinhole photograph. Exposure was about thirty seconds on a sheet of 4x5 film. 

Camera: Ilford Titan Pinhole

Film: Fomapan 100

Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island

Short Pinhole

I haven't posted or developed much pinhole work in a quite a while. I started listening to a podcast all about pinhole photography and inspired me to break out the developing trays and shift my bathtub into a darkroom space for a night.

Exposure was only about ten seconds long. Far too quick for a pinhole image in my opinion!

Camera: Ilford Titan Pinhole
Film: Fomapan 100
Location: Portland, OR - Columbia River Gorge

Portraits

Ok, this is the last “me Me ME!” moment on this blog for a little while I promise. Photographed by James Wigger in his back yard on a very stormy Portland afternoon.

I would also like to point out that I am fully aware I lose anywhere from five to fifteen followers every single time I post a non-nude image on this blog. I’m not sure how I feel about that quite honestly. On one hand it is fairly offensive that there is a certain crowd who only follows me so they can get their fix of tits and ass.

On the other hand, I’ve never really cared about the quantity of people who see my work here. I don’t understand people who jump for joy when they’ve broken a certain number of followers as if it is some monumental achievement. I mean, we are talking internet blogs here, not book sales or box office figures. Whether it’s ten people or ten thousand, Blogger is only of value to me when people look at what I do with a critical eye, not just a lustful one.  

Are You Sick of Me?

So speaking of portraits, here is one of little ol' me!

Depending on who you ask, I look like either a highly disturbed French poet or a very angry German. I'm not sure which persona I like better.

Photographed by Samantha Beasley who is one of those people who I constantly want to poke on the back of the head and bug her to take more pictures. She certainly has an eye for it!

Home

I'm home.

It feels in many ways like a mixed blessing to be here.  On one hand I welcome back in my life the familiar Pacific Northwest - the trees, the cool air and summer rains, the familiar sounds of bicycles and river boats.  I've missed my home and even to a degree my regular and dull routines.  At the same time I am already longing for the road again and the endless miles stretched out ahead of me.  It's amazing how truck stops and gas stations and silly roadside attractions can become places of endearment.

Most of all though, I miss the dear and special friend I left behind.

I learned a great many things while traveling between the west to the east. For example, sidewalks are not something one should ever take for granted. Evidently only rebels double space after a period these days.  The state of Iowa has perhaps the friendliest people on the planet combined with the biggest and most irritating flies you can imagine.  Finding a cowboy hat is more difficult in Wyoming than one might think. Fireflies are nothing short of magical at night and it is incredibly important that one never feed the Bison...they are dangerous after all.

Also, if you are going to buy fireworks, you might as well pick up a bottle of whiskey for the road.

I made a ton of photographs while on my journey which I will be posting to this blog over time.  I hope you enjoy them.  Some of them I think I will keep to myself as they are just too special to give to the Internet, but others I will share if for no other reason than to prove that sometimes adventures do happen.

(oh, and the attached image is a 3 minute pinhole exposure made on 4x5 film...just an fyi)

Camera: Ilford Titan Pinhole
Film: Fomapan 100
Model: Olivia Odd
Location: Portland, OR 

Pinhole Hand

Photographed with a pinhole camera on 4x5 sheet film.  Exposure time was about five minutes long.

I think the softness of the skin in this image turned out really well and I have to credit the model for holding as still as a person possibly could during a long exposure.

Camera: Ilford Titan Pinhole
Film: Fomapan 100
Model: Olivia Odd
Location: Portland, OR 

Pinhole on Sauvie

Photographed with a pinhole camera on a lovely spring evening.  My exposure was only about five seconds or so, which isn't much for a pinhole image.

I am rather impressed with how sharp the final image turned out.  All the blur you see in the trees and tall grass come from the fact that it was a fairly windy day.  The model was able to hold relatively still throughout the exposure. 

Camera: Ilford Titan Pinhole
Film: Fomapan 100
Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island