Pinhole photography is perhaps the oldest form of photography, and the simplest. It is essential a tiny hold made in a piece of paper or wood or metal and exposed to the light, usually in an enclosed box of some kind.

I’ve been experimenting with pinhole photography these past few months and am slowly and with great care and many notes figuring out how to capture images in this very limited way with absolutely none of the modern tools of photography – image stabilizers, auto focus, or computer-aided color extraction.

It has been difficult, but I’ve got some images I like. I’ll share them over the next few days. You must use a tripod and try a thousand different settings if you’re using a digital camera.

This one is of one of our sheep captured standing in the morning light on the edge of a flooded pond, the scrambled light comes from the sun. I liked it.