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A Pinhole project between July and December 2019. I have stayed in hotels once or twice a week, most Months, for 30 years and in December it comes to an end.
I am attempting to show visually how I feel about this, absent from my family, frustrated, often bored.
The pinhole camera and the way it captures time is a perfect vehicle.
pinhole camera RealitySoSubtle 6x6, film Kodak Ektar 100, selfdeveloped in Digibase C-41, Epson Scan.
Pinhole camera RealitySoSubtle 6x6F, film Rollei Retro 80S, developed in Compard R09 1:50 for 14 min
I had the opportunity a weekend ago or so to visit Cape Kiwanda for the first time since the new fencing had been installed. I was pretty curious to finally see it for myself. I was pretty ambivalent about the changes to this area. After all I have been visiting this cape for something in the neighborhood of twenty years now, probably longer in fact, and if there is one thing you learn from spending so much time at Cape Kiwanda it is on the nature of change. This whole cape is composed largely of soft sedimentary rock. It gets pounded by waves and wind and people. No two visits, even days apart, reveal the same landscape. I have seen arches collapse and rock pillars pushed over. I have watched patterns in the stone chewed up by feet, only to reappear again on another visit unblemished. Sand gets washed in, sand gets washed out. This whole place is one grand example of dynamic forces and the relationship between cause and effect. So yeah, a new fence doesn't faze me much, for me it is just part of the landscape.
Of course, after I had walked its length and mulled over its place in this place, I headed up and over the main dune. The backside is an area that is yet untouched by fencing or warning signs. It is a rugged frontier in this small patch of coastline. Many venture over to its crumbling cliffs, but many more don't. So it remains a little quieter, a little more secluded. I'd say I like it over there, but the truth is I like it pretty much anywhere at Cape Kiwanda. It really is a magical location and one of the best spots on this whole amazing coast. Shhhh, don't tell anyone.
I had time to kill, about eight hours in fact, so this was just one stop on a much longer trek that saw me descend that far northern "backside" and continue up the beach toward Sand Lake. But along the way I stopped at this overlook long enough to employ the Reality So Subtle 6x12. There are so many ways to photograph this cape and few wrong answers. It is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, which is perhaps why I see a giant whale's head emerging from the surf in front of me here...
On an unrelated note, I was talking with a photographer at work who is getting to know this camera. He has been struggling to compose with it because he has been insisting on making sure the camera is level and pointing dead ahead. My advice to him was to go out with it and make some images intentionally tilted forward or back, to not just assume that the bowing distortion this camera causes when angled forward or back should be avoided as a matter of course. Not only did I not want the top half of my frame to be dominated by sky in this scene, I thought the bowed horizon would make it all a little bit more interesting. Perhaps it does, perhaps it doesn't, but the point is that I considered it as a possibility.
Reality So Subtle 6x12F
Kodak Ektar 100 I think, I don't have the film right in front of me to double check.
this was taken on my new 6x6 RealitySoSubtle pinhole supplied by James Guerin thank you for taking me back into photography still learning
Freight wagon
RealitySoSubtle 6x17 pinhole cam
f/233
4'17"
Kodak Ektar 100
Tetenal C-41 | 38°C
Scanner Epson V600 photo
SilverFast 8
RealitySoSubtle 6x6 / 20.5mm/137 / Ilford FP4+ 125 / Ilford LC29 1+29/20°C/12min / Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+4/4min
Rocks at Etretat, Normandy, France
RealitySoSubtle 141, 6x17 Panorama Pinhole Camera; Acros 100; Darkroom print, elabrated on Ilford Multigrade FB Classic Baryt
a scanned picture shot at the same time with the same camera is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/creativepins/27704166880/in/datepos...
Another version of an often taken shot. I took this one with a realitysosubtle 617 camera - a pinhole camera on tmax film. Just like on a digital version I posted earlier, I like how the film captures the light over a period of time and shows how nothing stays still on the water.