Successful failure.
One area of investigation has led me to explore the practice of beer can pinhole photography. I have placed “beer can” cameras out in the local area. With the size of the aperture, the exposure time becomes months. One of my cameras had been in the field for 12 weeks on the seafront and weathered a couple of storms. Angled to capture the bay and the arc of the sun. Although the can was destroyed to my surprise I still managed to produce an exceptional image
I feel the image is a success for a couple of reasons. The work is very abstract which fits into the body of work that I am working on at the same time clearly has elements of ICM (in camera movement).
This image is the first success of a process that is fairly high risk. With the use of a beer can there is little cost involved, so when they go missing for whatever reason its no great expense, just the loss of what could have been. Another risk is the location and the can being destroyed by the environment. More cans will be deployed to continue the beer can pinhole photography project.
A fellow photographer filmed the area and caught a clip of it surviving the storm. https://twitter.com/Lyonsphotos_uk/status/1335156938565447685?s=20
