Last Sunday Zoe, Gerry, and I went of to Kim and Doug's to celebrate Kim's birthday.

Zoe and Kim

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I'm actually in the picture. It's a 20 minute exposure and I sat with Zoe for about half the time. You can see her hand around me on the left. The bright spots that are in the same location of Zoe's head are the flash on her camera going off. I'm actually in the image twice. The left side of the door in the mirror has a faint ghost image of me.

Gerry and Doug

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Kim's place was pretty dark. I'm still getting the hang of exposure for the pinhole and I need to be a bit more fearless about giving more exposure. You can just make out Doug's feet to the right of Gerry's foot.

Kim's presents

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I could have used more exposure here. Reading a long exposure pinhole is a little different than reading a lensed photograph. A lensed image (usually) is an instant moment. Reality (a loose term) is frozen. A long exposure pinhole is not the recording of an instant but a recording of much longer period of time. Sort of a smear of instants. Halfway through this exposure Kim put the lit cup/candle in front of the between the camera and the other gifts she had opened.