*Pinhole Photography

I stumbled upon these images on the website http://www.stumbleupon.com/. The images were captured using a pinhole camera with an exposure of 6 MONTHS! These are quite incredible and I love how they turned out. Here is one example of Justin Quinnell's pinhole photography. More examples can be found at: http://www.pinholephotography.org/gallery/slow/index.html

This is Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge.


"The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.
Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008--the Winter and Summer solstices. (That's a 15,552,000 second exposure.)'Solargraph' shows six months of the sun's luminescent trails and its subtle change of course caused by the earth's movement in orbit. The lowest arc being the first day of exposure on the Winter solstice, while the top curves were captured mid-Summer." Says the caption found below the photograph.

I find these very unique and beautiful. They almost look like paintings.