The last Sunday in April is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. On that day, photographers around the world create images using a pinhole camera. Each photographer is allowed to upload one image taken that day to the gallery on the WPPD website (https://pinholeday.org/). The gallery becomes a snapshot of life around the world on that one day. Very cool.

Usually I am out all day with cameras and tripods and extra film and a light meter, immersed in the business and the joy of taking photographs. Usually I shoot 5-10 rolls of film. But I learned that being on crutches is a rather large impediment to both getting out in the field (which I didn’t even attempt to do today) and to setting up a still life inside. My ability to carry objects is pretty limited, as is the ability to stand for a lengthy period of time. I struggled to shoot one roll of film today. Setting up scenes to photograph was slow work, and exposure times were long - 8 to 48 minutes - because I was using 50 ISO film.

I became frustrated, and as my frustration grew, I grew crabby. I even shot a few digital pinhole photos, just in case I have nothing usable on film. Today’s photo was taken with the digital pinhole camera and shows matryoshka dolls and other souvenirs from my travels in Russia. Image was captured using a 30-second exposure with a flash at the beginning. It’s not a very good photo - the flash created reflections on the smooth surfaces of the objects, which distracts. But I still find it amazing you can create imaes using the light that comes though a tiny pinhole.

I’m still crabby. But I’ll be better tomorrow, and, I hope, back to trekking around with a full range of cameras next WPPD - which falls on 30 April 2023.