2025 Summer Solstice Pinhole Camera pics

 It's that time again! Here's my best of the batch of pinhole camera images I retrieved yesterday, 6/20/25. It's an extremely low-tech operation, using a beer can with a single pinhole poked in it with a sheet of 5" x 7" black and white photo paper loaded inside. I add a lid and tape the whole assembly shut, then use zip ties to mount them in various places. I then forget about them for 6 months, until harvesting and replacing them every solstice. They fit in well with my main body of work that requires sunlight and patience.

On to the images!

The streaks in the sky are the path of the sun each day. You can clearly see the difference in altitude as the seasons progress.

Here's a sort of side view where you can see the sun, but also a corner of my house, with a fence. 

I know it's got a simple explanation, but it always seems a bit magical to me that this happens without a lens of any sort. 

Here's a view facing north, so there's no sun streaks, but you can clearly see a bit of my raised bed garden and the big trees in the woods beyond. 

This was the "best" of the lot this time, although it's difficult to rate them objectively. They all bring me great joy, and I hope they give you a moment of pleasure and mental ease as well. 

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