Pinhole anecdotes

Hello everyone,

Here are a couple of things that happened to me on recent pinhole excursions... you have a lot of fun when you carry a paintcan camera around.

I was sitting in a courtyard cafe with the camera on the table and the couple at the next table turned around and asked me "Hey, what color do you have?" I told them "I have all the colors of the rainbow in there!" Then I showed them how it worked and we ended up having a very nice chat about pinhole photography.

Another day I was walking down Main St. in Cooperstown carrying 2 cameras and the driver of the rural transportation bus (Gus the Bus) pulled over and opened the door. "I bet you're goin' to do some paintin' today!" he yelled out the door (this is a very rural area and we can be a friendly folk). "Heck no, this is a camera and I'm takin' pictures" I responded. He drove off scratching his head.

I don't think making dumb mistakes is all that crazy, but it's amazing to me to see how smart we can be after all that schooling and experience. Like this week, I figured out how to take a lot of cameras out and cover up their number with black tape after I made the exposure in order to tell which ones had been used. I forgot to cover a few up and they became double exposed and way too dark to print. Must still be high on the learning curve...

I'd like to collect more interesting anecdotes if you have any...

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!

Jim Kosinski
www.paintcancamera.com
Received on Sat Dec 30 09:22:24 2000