It felt a little like the movie “Ground Hog Day” going back to the Capitol every morning last week to take pinhole photos of the interior of the dome. It took several takes to dial things in. The low light makes the exposures long and I also made another wider camera to get more of the dome in the photo.
The Capitol police all got to know the weird guy with the cigar box camera. I was honestly a little worried about hanging out in the Capitol with strange taped up boxes, but only one of the security personnel questioning me and what I was up to. One surprisingly came up and asked if it was a pinhole camera.
I’m not used to taking an entire week to produce two photographs but here are the results.
This is the wider shot. The four circles in the corners of the photograph are the four galleries going off the main rotunda. So it’s wide!
