Panther Key is one of my favorite places in Florida. It’s close enough to civilization to paddle out to it in one day, but far enough away that I had the beach all to myself for two nights. Here’s a few pinhole photos from Panther Key. Gotta love photos of mangroves!
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The Ten Thousand Islands is an area with constantly changing shorelines. With sea levels rising the changes are mostly in the direction of eroding away. This creates piles of driftwood on all the islands as the shoreline merges back into the mangroves. And mangrove driftwood make for some very interesting twisted, almost abstract images.
Here are a few pinhole images from my five-day canoe trip in the Ten Thousand Islands.
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Fog rolled in most every morning during my first stop in Florida for the Mount Dora Art Festival. The day after the festival I took a hike in the unique looking pine woodlands in Wekiwa Springs State Park to make a few pinhole photographs.
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These photos are dedicated to the guy who walked by me while I was shooting in the drizzle and fog and said, “Lousy day for photos, Isn’t it?”
With the wide angle 4×5 pinhole you would hardly recognize that this was the capitol building in Madison.
The iconic “Forward” statue shot with my “new” Brownie converted to a pinhole camera.
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Although I’ve never been a gear-head, doing pinhole and alternative photography would satisfy a camera geek’s need for new camera gear at a low price. I now have well over a dozen cameras I’ve played around with and the newest one is a Holga 120 camera. Here are some shots from my first roll of film, which I cross processed E-6 in C-41 chemistry. It’s simplicity is liberating. I had to laugh at the instruction manual explaining the two exposure settings on the camera. There is “sunny” and “not so sunny”. It frees you up to just take photos without thinking about it too hard.
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I tried out a few more rolls of cross processing film shot with the Kodak Hawkeye Brownie (with the reversed lens). Being the focus is fixed at about two feet it’s a fun test to see what you can come up with. Here’s some of the photos from Owen Conservation Park.
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