Saturday, Jan 15, 2022

[Don]

Good morning all. I hope that none of you are getting really hammered by the weather this morning. I believe that we are just
south enough to miss most of it, other than some cold temps. DW is out of town, heading to Hilton Head this morning with DD for
a gymnastics match with our granddaughter. Hopefully they will not be returning Monday to some nasty weather either.

I've been enjoying the posts over the past few days, few that they are. That last image that you posted Grant is interesting.
Almost look like a bas relief or similar. Must have taken a lot of time. Lorell, that was quite a creative shot you posted as
well. Thanks for the description on how it was done. Perfect lighting for your pink rose Dave. I could go on, but enought said.

I enjoyed them all and even though I wasn't posting much in the past few days, I check in regularly to see how things are going.
Really haven't been doing any photography to speak of lately.  BUT, day before yesterday I received a pinhole camera that I had
ordered back around the first part of November. It had apparently gotten lost somewhere along the line (it came from somewhere near
Belorus) and I purchased it on Etsy. Really nice work, 4x5 format. I took it out yesterday along with 6 loaded sheets of Ilford
HP+ film and did some test shots. I am happy with the results.


A couple of my favorite little stone "bridge".





Downtown riverwalk.



A couple shots of the river rapids.





More water, different location. I didn't notice the shadow when I took the shot.



Depth of field is awesome with a pinhole camera. The pinhole is 0.3mm which gives an f stop of 260. Requires some calculations to determine
the shutter speed and account for reciprocity failure, but it is fun (and different) to play with.