#CameraChallenge for July-August 2020: Pinhole Preparation

OK, first this is a very unofficial entry.  The challenge was to create a home made pinhole, makes some image and post them to the #CameraChallenge.  I have a lot of pinhole cameras (some I've never used) and I really didn't feel like making another one.  Then I ended up with this piece of crap camera........and an idea was born:

You can see that for one thing, the lens is gone.  This is a common fault with these cameras.  But you can also see the 'T-I' switch, that will allow me to leave the aperture open for my image attempts.

So I have the camera body, but I needed a pinhole.  Well what do you do with all of those leftover SolarCans after you've made your Solargrams? Tah Dah........you can try to recycle that pinhole:

Now remove the pinhole from the SolarCan:

I did three cans just in case to see which size would fit best:

And Voila!  A Pinhole (or sorts):  The Hawkette Pinhole.......

The pinhole you can see is rather large.  But let's try it and see what happens.......

My New Year is starting off with a BANG!

Boulders and White Water

A few posts from 2011 that never got posted

Help Select our 2013 Calendar Photos

Over the next week or so we will be posting potential calendar photos on our other blog.  Please join us HERE and leave your comments.  I'll be keeping track and sending a calendar to the most helpful viewer.......

The Theme is Red Rocks of the West.  Some examples from a local candidate: Roxborough State Park.

As we have done in the past, each month in 2013 an image from the Calendar will be posted here.

New Banner Photos

I've switched banner images from the last snow of the past spring to the fallow fields and first snow on the Peaks for the Fall (above).

And also changed the Banner on my other blog:

Monsoon........

We've had much more rain than normal this summer.  Usually the SW monsoon pattern misses us, but not in 2011.  Lots of Angry Skies:

I like the moodiness of B&W.....taken from I-70 heading up to the mountains....

Watch Your Step at Mesa Arch!

We 'discovered' a new arch at Canyonlands this year.  Of course it had always been there, but we drove by in the past never giving it a thought.

But watch you step, because there is s shear drop on if you step through the Arch!

Don't Play with Matches!

A Sad find on our recent trip to Moab. But first a view of happier days for the recently restored (2008) Dewey Bridge opened in 1916:

An unsupervised child playing with matches is all it takes to destroy our history! 

 I think B&W adds to the grim scene.

(Half of Bodie, California met a similar fate in the 1930's. At that time it was a totally intact 19th Century mining (ghost)town with a few remaining residents.)

Crossings.......

Red Rocks Friday

We're spending the weekend in the Red Rocks of Moab.

Continuing our Walk.........

 

Not pollution, but runoff from the mountains.  With record snow cover and warm temperatures, we are expecting a lot more of this........

Pollution

Can you find the problem here?  For a place that considers itself environmentally sound who did this?

The Rules: Part II

Now that we know all of the rules, it's safe to walk.

Know the Rules

I took a stroll along Boulder Creek Recently.  But first, you need to know the Rules!

Red Rocks Late: Arches National Park

Yes You Can!

Develop film with coffee!

For the History behind it, Click Here.  View more of my Caffenol Tests.

Long Road

It's a long road to recovery, but I'm well on my way........

Returning to the North Park Area: The Never Summer Range

Lake Agnes in the Never Summer Range

A fairly easy hike above the Ranger Lakes area.

2010 Calendar: Flowers from Mt Evans

Queen's Crown, near Summit Lake.

Summer Days at Brainard Lake

Crossing the bridge for the Long Lake Trail

One of the smaller lakes that feed Brainard Lake.

We camped here last July, when the campground first opened.  A very short season in the high mountains.