"This required also learning how to print pictures from often overexposed and contrasty negatives. Since then, I've searched for the "perfect" pinhole format by experimenting with old Polaroids, instamatics, disposables, box and folding cameras, view cameras and a large variety of cameras made from hand-crafted boxes and found containers.
"The Sunshine Coast Arts Center has exhibited my pinhole images many times and has also been a source of camaraderie, inspiration, encouragement and critique during this long and personal odyssey of exploration.
"This spring, I exhibited pinhole images at the Artesia Gallery in Gibsons, BC, Canada, realizing a long-term ambition to build a walk-in camera. A storage room in the back of the gallery, which overlooks Molly's Lane and Gibsons Harbor, became the "camera". Inside the camera, a clear image of the scene (upside down and laterally reversed) covered the walls, floor and ceiling of the room. You can imagine my delight to be in the camera with a dozen or so gradeschoolers when a car drove through Molly's Lane. The image of the car would appear moving up one wall, across the ceiling and down the adjacent wall. This never failed to produce gasps of amazement. People strolling down the lane or boats sailing in the harbor also produced a similar result.
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Sunshine Coast Arts Center photographed at ground level using a pinhole camera made from a Cadbury nut can on Tri-X 4X5 film - Exposure of 10 min at /225.
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