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He made the photo not with a fancy digital camera but with an extremely rude, homemade device -- a pinhole camera made from an empty soda can with a .25mm hole punched in it and one sheet of photo paper inside. He strapped it to a telephone pole and left it there for six months, from... more

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Rated by Jint3i on Sep 18, 3:09pm

The arcs look like a code of some sort.
Reviewed by tewo on Sep 14, 1:14am

really interesting, long exposure indeed
Rated by cornellbox on Sep 10, 10:28am

6 month long pinhole camera exposure.
Rated by zoskiaos on Sep 02, 9:33am

"British photographer Justin Quinnell is making waves with an amazing six month exposure he made in Bristol, England of the sun rising and falling over the city's famous suspension bridge."
Rated by individualathome on Sep 02, 8:36am

How long can "long exposure" be?
Rated by dgirlp on Sep 02, 8:18am

He made the photo not with a fancy digital camera but with an extremely rude, homemade device -- a pinhole camera made from an empty soda can with a .25mm hole punched in it and one sheet of photo paper inside. He strapped it to a telephone pole and left it there for six months, from December 19, 2007 to June 21, 2008. If those dates sound familiar (or astronomically significant), they are -- they're the winter and summer solstices, respectively. The lowest arc in the photo is the sun's trail on the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. The highest arc is the summer solstice. The lines which are punctuated by dots represent overcast days when the sun penetrated the clouds only intermittently. via: charliemiller
Rated by udijw on Apr 01 2009, 7:45am

A great project with a pinhole camera and a six months exposure

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