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This image, created by the Pinhole Blender, incorporates church, home, and business. I will allow the viewer to fill in the blanks, if there are any.
A while back I offered an image that represented Three Self Portraits. This time I decided to use the Pinhole Blender to offer a more straightforward self portrait. To the left is a brick wall, which is where I oftentimes find myself – figuring out ways to climb, go around, or break these walls down is part of the fun of life. On the left is a sign on a window that I just felt was amusing – Beans and Rice? Surrounding myself by these two elements encapsulates much of my life.
One of my girlfriend’s nephews recently joined the Air Force. To be as kind as possible, I will simply say that the individual who recruited him could have been a little more forthcoming with the information that he offered. This image, which was created with the Pinhole Blender, shows a recruiter, an offer of learning, and a blank street, which sums things up for that particular experience.
There are not many pictures of myself on the Internet … actually, there are not many pictures of myself at all, as I’d rather focus on other, more interesting topics. However, the Pinhole Blender gave me an opportunity to put together three images of myself in the same frame, which I think worked out nicely. The question then becomes whether or not a self portrait can be successful without including the full face. Actually, I think that that is a more interesting question than the inclusion itself, so I decided to leave it out.
Chris Peregoy’s Pinhole Blender allows for the blending of multiple pinhole images into a single frame. This particular image was made in a graveyard beside the city of Annapolis, MD, allowing gravestones and graveyard angels to blend into one another.
Annapolis, MD is an interesting place in many respects. It is one of the older cities in the United States, but has been maintained nicely due to regulations concerning historic buildings (this has also proven to be a problem, as was the case with a building that burned down a number of years ago, where the remaining walls were not allowed to be taken down).
The colors of some of the row houses downtown are interesting because they are not necessarily coordinated with one another and I wanted to capture some of this cacophony. To do so I used Chris Peregoy’s Pinhole Blender in the 120 size. This image was taken on Fleet Street.
I have been playing around with Chris Peregoy’s Pinhole Blender for a while now, and have enjoyed the results.
The idea is that the film is placed within a canister approximately the size of a cookie tin (I use the 120 version – he also offers a 35mm version). The film is wound around a spool, facing outwards. The canister has three pinholes, which allow for three separate exposures to different sections of the film, thus blending the images together.
While the idea for this may have been to allow for a wide panoramic image, I’ve had fun blending images that are related but not connected. Click on the image for a larger view, which is 1600 pixels wide and better shows the image.
