Re: pinhole-discussion-digest V1 #23

Cheers from Washington DC and hello pinholers! I was very interested to read
the discussion of turning a room into a camera obscura.

The newsletter's mention of metal tea containers reminded me of the
Smithsonian Museum pinhole workshop my husband and I enjoyed. We constructed pinhole
cameras from round tins available at The Container Store--a chain whose
stores span the US, in case anyone is interested. We had the museum's gardens to
shoot, and had a good time nestling the cameras in grassy spots or concrete
perches to make exposures. Our paper was sort of panoramic, as it was cut to
fit around the can's interior of course. Very much fun!
I also warmed at the mention of alternative photography overtaking the
practice of pinholing.
Fellow subscriber Malin Fabbri founded the amazing site
_www.alternativephotography.com_ (http://www.alternativephotography.com) and has edited and
published some exquisite editions. Anyone who works in an alternative process
(pinholing included, I think), needs to explore the massive resources of her
site, as she has provided hundreds of photographers with their own galleries,
and the how-to sections are of themselves authoritative and well worth a
look-see.
Ivy Bigbee

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