Pinhole photography is complete magic. It follows a simple process of making your own camera out of a show box, a can, a matchbox... anything. Like craft class in school. And then you load the camera with photo paper, check for light leakage, and go take photos! The meditative process of taking a photograph with mathematical precision, then taking your treasure to the photolab to develop and seeing the result hanging on the stand in front of you a mere 20 minutes later is marvelous. It is instant gratification. I've been through the process of taking 30-35 photos on an analog SLR over the period of a week or so and developing the photos myself... but that process is lengthy and there is a slight possibility of losing your mojo by the end of it. But this... is bliss. It's magic. It's mesmerising....
Here are the negatives as it gets exposed on the photo paper, then photoshopped to positive:
This last one was a 5 minute exposure. I can stay pretty still, huh? I'm looking at the timer on my phone on the other side of my leg :)
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