Re: Where are all the pinholer's?

To everyone who has contributed to this list over the years:

Thank you.

This was the first resource that I found to help me get started in pinhole photography. I asked you guys some questions, and you answered me enthusiastically. When f295 started, I joined in enthusiastically. For me, the f295 forum came to replace this list in my pinhole world. I like to see activity here, but I will not miss its absence like I would miss the absence of f295.

As for the health of pinhole and alt-process photography in general, I agree with Katherine - I think that interest is high, and that some of the most interesting photography being done fits into one of these categories. Hand made photography will never be for everyone, and the students at Andy's seminars will ebb and flow. But I think that photography has been freed from the conventions of criticism and from the technology of the factory. I think that this is to be celebrated both in images and in words.

Thank you to Eric for hosting this list, and to all of you for contributing to it.

Now go out there and shoot some film!

Earl Johnson
Pinhole Artist
Maker of Post Factory Images (thank you, Judy)
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From: "Eric S. Theise" <mataro@cyberwerks.com>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> > Has everyone given up on the discussion list?
>
> Funny you should ask. This is something I have been thinking about
> quite a lot of late.
>
> Certainly someone will be along very soon to tell you that this
> list is not the place where things are happening, and that all the
> action is at the f295 web forum. The bulk of the posts to this
> list over the past year (or two) have been to that effect.
>
> For those of you who've missed it, or recently joined:
>
> http://www.f295.com/
>
> I think the continued existence of the pinhole-discussion list only
> serves to fragment whatever pinhole photography discussion may be
> taking place on the Internet, and I propose that we shut this list
> off, effective end-of-day August 31st.
>
> The archives will remain in place indefinitely at spitbite.org.
>
> If someone would like to take over the list--and by that I mean
> finding a new hosting service, setting up the software, moving the
> archive, the whole deal--please contact me either on or off list.
> But I'll repeat myself: I think the best thing to do to further
> pinhole photography on the Internet is to close down this list and
> direct everyone to where there's some vitality to the conversation.
>
> (Like you, Chuck, I am old school, favoring email discussion over
> forums, but times change.)
>
> --Eric
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Received on Tue Aug 21 12:44:20 2007