My first pinhole photograph

Pinhole photography is such a basic photographic technique. You can literally make a camera out of a beer can and this we did yesterday. As Justin Quinnell (pinhole guru) explained to us during yesterday's workshop, the technique restores some of the the wonder to the science and art of photography. To an extent, we have become so blase about photographic technology that we don't get that sense of wonder when we look at the LCD on the rear of our digital cameras. Consequently we have lost some of the wonder associated with the medium. Yesterday's Pinhole Photography workshop restored some of the wonder for me.

To be able to produce an image from a beer can with a small hole punched in its side using a pin and a piece of light sensitive paper carefully inserted into the cylindrical can was truly a wonderful and revelatory moment.

The success of pinhole photography relies on using your imagination and leaving things to chance. The images produced are truly unique. Ansell Adams would turn in his grave but who cares.

This is the print I made from my beer can camera. It's a picture of my bike outside the centre in St Pauls. The image that is created on the paper is a negative. I inverted it to a positive using Photoshop Elements.