Totem and Sun

This pinhole was taken with the Holga attached to a Manfrotto tripod.  This particular tripod lets you get the camera no more than 6 inches off the ground by rotating the central column 90 degrees horizontal and then have the legs spred nearly flat.

In this orientation I tilted the camera nearly straight up and brought the body within 6 inches of the bottom of the totem.  The depth of field of the pinhole is remarkable.

This is a carving of a Saint (Francis?).  Might be 12 feet tall.

I like how the full sun is diffracted by the pinhole.  Who says you can't take pictures of stars with a pinhole camera!

Totem and Sun

Holga 120-WPC pinhole camera, taken near Abiquiu, New Mexico Aug. 2012

120 film, approx 3.5 sec exposure (manual Bulb - I estimated by counting)

negative scanned and processed in Lightroom 3.6

thanks to my friend Dan who helped me scan all my film and photopaper pinhole images!