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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2012.

As an enthusiastic contributor to Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, I would like to announce that the next WPPD event happens on the last Sunday in April. This year, that last Sunday happens to fall on the 29th.

Digital or film, Pinhole imaging is great fun!

Even though this event is still over 3 months away, now is the time to start planning. Now is the time to start thinking about the camera and the technique you want to use. Now is the time to start building your camera and to consider the many possibilities of this ancient technique. Please tell all of your photographic friends about your participation and that there will be a gallery of great  images taken with a primitive but absolutely magical photographic technique. Now is the time to get all of them involved.

Pinholers believe that the simplicity of a pinhole camera can open big doors for creativity.

WPPD is an event that unites people across the globe. People from all walks of life and nearly every country take pinhole images of whatever they want and upload them to the WPPD website. The resulting gallery is a unique collection of images that showcases more of our commonalities than our differences.

Please join us on the next WPPD on the last Sunday of 2012.

Pinhole photos are taken without a lens but simply through a small hole, about the size of the period at the end of a sentence. Photos can be made using regular cameras, including digital, fitted with a pinhole aperture. Refined results can be obtained using pinhole cameras purposely made for the lens-less photography. It is creative, funny and educational to use a self-made camera from ordinary items such as shoe boxes, peeled tomato cans or tea boxes. Any container that can be made light-tight can become a pinhole camera. Half the fun is finding or creating a container to use for your camera.

An increasing number of people are showing interest in the exciting practice of pinhole photography. In 2001, 291 pinhole photographers from 24 countries took part in the web exhibition. Last year they were 3387 from 67 countries.

To find out more about and how to participate in Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2011 go to: http://www.pinholeday.org/ 

There will be plenty of opportunity to learn how to build a camera, participate in workshops and to learn about the amazing technique of pinhole imaging.

I hope to post a few tips, show some great pinhole work and announcements for WPPD as we get closer to the event.

April 29, 2012

Please keep posted.

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