Kimbolton Church Solargraph

[TakMan]

Six months has flown by….

Time to collect the solar graph we ‘planted’…

Yes, a few days early to be collecting, but today is my last one in the office and I wasn’t thinking of doing a 124 mile round trip to collect from Leominster on the shortest day!

What a lovely start to the day, a slippy stile and muddy walk!

My first attempt at this location (Summer > Winter 2016) had been damaged – probably due to the shiny  ‘foil’ pinhole being pecked out by an interested magpie!

2x previous photos of new solar graph in situ…(Above and below)

The site from Google Maps:

Kimbolton Church (Nr. Leominster) is in the centre. The solar graph is sited in that first tree-line (towards 10/11 o’clock), looking back to the church – thought it would make a nice view/foreground…

This time, we had forgone the foil (you pin-prick it to get a fine hole and therefore sharper image recorded) and instead drilled (No 1 drill bit), straight into the tin. No bird was going to get through that!!

Would this one fair better…?

This was it’s rough view as seen this morning upon collection at 8.45am….

First impressions were good… the baked bean can pinhole camera looked to have survived it’s six months and was in remarkably good condition with hardly any rust – sheltered under the trees.

Back at the office, second impressions were of a unremarkable small image and some image shift (double exposure)…. look how the church is double exposed on the original below….      ;-(

 

I don’t think it was ‘vandalised’ if it had, it would have been ripped out and strewn across the hedgerow… ‘Mother Nature’…. perhaps…? More likely a horse or sheep rubbing up against the stake (or wire fence) – although I did try and protect it somewhat…

(Above: Initial scan – 900DPI, Colour-Millions, mirror reversed on the horizontal plane, cropped).

 

If this hasn’t worked, that’s 18 months from the first try (summer>winter 2016) – I didn’t have another pinhole camera prepared after the first go to put imediately back in place, so waited until this summer solstice in 2017 to try again.

Again, I didn’t have another prepared to start again this morning either, so another camera would have to wait until summer 2018….

 

But….

 

With a little Photoshop magic, it’s amazing what can be achieved!

Phew  ?

So, KIMBOLTON CHURCH SOLARGRAPH Summer > Winter 2017

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

 

Damian

[Doc]

That's cool Damian

I done a few of these when I was at college about 35 years ago, if I remember right it was great fun.

[JeremyS]

That's a great result, Damian!

Jeremy

[Pete Presland]

What a fabulous idea, congratulations on a great end result!

[MarsG76]

Awesome experiment.. very cool

 

[Pete Presland]

Where did you source the Photographic paper from?

 

[Beulah]

I love this hobby. So much to learn. Fanastic project!

[andrew63]

That's a great record and end result - unique.  And a Merry Christmas to you also.

 

andrew