Pinhole digital slr Attempt one

These are my first very crude attempts at making my Nikon D70s into a pinhole camera, as you can see the results aren't a clear image, but I do think that they have a certain charm about them. The process I went though to produce these was incredible simple, firstly taking a body cap and putting a hole through it, I used a soldering iron as this created a nice smooth finish to the hole. Then simply gave it a quick rub with some sand paper to try n take the shine off the inside of the cap, to reduce light reflecting around. 

Below is a self portrait I left the shutter open for only a few second but positioned myself beside a well light window, bathed in sunlight. I very much like that it is clearly a human in the shot but that you cant see that it is me or indeed any of the defining features.

These two images are of Keighley bus station, which at the time was full of blue and green buses all lined up.

Part of the town hall roof.

Car park clock above Reids bookshop.

These last four are the bar lights at the Cricketers Arms

The s problem with focusing is a very simple one, its the fact that the hole is so large. The next step for me to take is to use thin metal and a pin to create a very small, strong and crisp hole, which can then be mounted in the back of the body cap using black insulating tape. obviously lined up with the hole previously created by the soldering iron.

keighley Arts (karts) n a bit of a rant

I have recently moved home, as I have no money or job as such, and have decided that it seems very silly for all these creative people to be living in the valley with no sort of really user driven on-line presence, hence Keighley arts.

I attempted to look at using basically any other platform than facebook but on reflection and after having searched around for some thing that would provide for all it became very apparent that unless it was Facebook, something that everyone uses already, then well no one would use it at all. So as it stands I have been to be totally honest the only one posting on the groups wall regularly and to no real avail (but this is probably just my impatient side shining through). So a new tact has to be undertaken, a project that might just possibly pull some people into working together, be it as some form of higgledy piggledy arts collective: enter stage from left, Yarn Bombing, a well rehearsed practice for artist, craft people, and general miscs.


Yarn Bombing " Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time" http://yarnbombing.com/ :


Keighley is, in my humble opinion a perfect candidate for yarn bombing, it has been described as a hard town, and can seem very depressing if not looked at with curious eyes. Hopefully drawing some attention to Keighleys good point can be only a positive thing, creating a town centre wide yarn bombing installation will obviously not change anything really, but if it just takes a bit of interest away from the fact that all the shops are shutting down and we have more super markets than any town I know of then maybe maybe it will be a good thing too do.

I'm now going to take this opportunity to list what I love about Keighley:

• The people, pure and simple, there are a lot of lovely people. (I admit there are some nasty ones too, but they are inconsequential)   
• We have beautiful Victorian buildings the façades of which should be much more greatly appreciated than they are, all you have to do is look up.
• the most amazing Moore lands
• dramatic weather (we all wine about it, but sometimes when you see the weather falling off the hill tops its simply magnificent)
• rich literary heritage
• cliff castle, what an odd thing it is
• and finally amazing cities less than an hour away so we can easily leave every now and then.

Rant over....

here is the group on facebook .... http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_167063799998177&ap=1

if yarn bombing fails me im moving on to land art... ill probably move onto that anyhow....