dreamlike- to me anyway.

[joshbotch]

this picture is a picture of an entire years worth of time. i made a pinhole camera, loaded it and anchored it to a tree about 15 feet up. i started it exposing, left, went home, and returned exactally one year later to stop the exposure. it makes me feel dream-ey looking at it. the whiteish haze around the edges is water damage to the negative... a squirrel had been chewing on the body of the camera by the time i returned for it. the view is of a lake, flanked by trees, with the far shore in the distance. enjoy. coments are very welcome photo

[Universal Mind]

this picture is a picture of an entire years worth of time. i made a pinhole camera, loaded it and anchored it to a tree about 15 feet up. i started it exposing, left, went home, and returned exactally one year later to stop the exposure. it makes me feel dream-ey looking at it. the whiteish haze around the edges is water damage to the negative... a squirrel had been chewing on the body of the camera by the time i returned for it. the view is of a lake, flanked by trees, with the far shore in the distance. enjoy. coments are very welcome photo That is very, very trippy and impressive. It is a really good artistic concept. It shows what slightly moving virtual still life did over a year. I love it.

[Cn]

Looks cool but I don't think I get it, you left it our for a year then took a picture? Whats a pinhole exposure?

[joshbotch]

you know on film cameras when you take the picture and the shutter goes "click, click" the time in between the clicks is the exposure time, on sunny days it could be like 1/500 th of a second... but with pinhole cameras the hole that the light goes through to hit the film is so small that it takes much longer - like a couple of minutes to a couple of hours. it is the time it takes for the film to react to the light in order to look like a picture, too little time= too dark, too much time= too white. mine took 1 years worth of time.

[Man of Steel]

That is just amazing. A great idea, too!

[Universal Mind]

That is just amazing. A great idea, too! Thanks.

[CoLd BlooDed]

That's so fantastically mind blowing it's hard for me to even analyse it. First off let me say well done, this is true creativeness. To me it basically sums up an entire year in one picture, which is astounding. Tear jerking, even. So much time is reflected in this picture that it is completely forgotten about... because what has happened within this time overshadows it, once you get thinking. I wonder how many sunny/rainy days that camera saw, how many animals it witnessed passing by (if any at all), how many people or boats on the lake it saw, so on and so forth. It really is incredible, and very dreamlike indeed. A new era of timelapse capture. Awesome.

[joshbotch]

thanks! i am in the process of doing some more of these, i want to place the camera in a more urban environment... which poses the challenge of putting it somewhere where people cant mess with it. i'd also like to make the body of the camera out of metal to cut down on the animal/water dammage factor.

[Ardent Lost]

What a brilliant concept, and amazing result!

[Super Duck]

Fantastic. Great idea! You can put it on the post like this: