WPPD 2019

Here's my submission for this year's Worldwide Pinhole Photograhy Day. This vigilant and graceful Guardian Angle watches over those who sleep at a nearby cemetery in Port Vincent, Louisiana. 

I have really come to love Kodak Ektar, especially for pinhole. The colors are just beautiful and the film speed puts me right in a "sweet spot" for shutter speeds on all of my pinhole cameras. This particular photo was shot with the Holga Pinhole Camera (f192) resulting in a 6 x 6 image on 120 roll film. The exposure here was 1.5 seconds.

Budding Young Photographer Takes Her Work Seriously

I took my budding young photographer granddaughter Claire out on a photo shoot to capture images for a contest she participates in every year and could not help but shoot the shooter. She takes her photography very seriously and was one of the winners in the contest last year. She was of course shooting digital (Pentax istDL) while I was shooting my favorite black and white film in one of my favorite cameras, Kodak Tri-X in my Pentax ZX-7.

Graduation Day at the Fire Hydrant

Last year when my son graduated with honors from Southeastern Louisiana University we naturally had a photo shoot and in addition to all the digital photos I had to shoot a roll of Portra 400 with the Holga. This was my favorite. If you have followed this blog for any time at all you know how I love fire hydrants and there just happened to be one where we were shooting. How could I resist!

WPPD 2018

Clearly it's been a while since I posted anything here but not for lack of subject matter. In any case I will try to bring things up to date a bit. Here's last year's Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day submission. Its a shot of one of my favorite pinhole subjects at the local Baton Rouge Botanical Gardens. This was a 2 second exposure from the very first roll of film through my new (at the time) Holga 135PC, 35mm plastic pinhole Camera. It was shot on Kodak Portra 160 color film on a sunny spring day.