{"id":1808,"date":"2013-07-15T01:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T00:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T06:38:13","slug":"matchbox-pinhole-camera-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Matchbox Pinhole Camera II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago <a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1772\" target=\"_blank\">I posted about a project<\/a> where I taught teens in one of Windhoek&#8217;s vulnerable communities to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchboxpinhole.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">matchbox pinhole cameras<\/a>. \u00a0I lamented how few of the photos had turned out because I had failed to actually make one of the cameras myself in order to use my own experience to better instruct the teens.<\/p>\n<p>Well it turns out it wouldn&#8217;t have made a difference. \u00a0Below the six best (of 36) photos taken from my first matchbox pinhole camera. \u00a0All the more respect for these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/matchboxpinhole\/\" target=\"_blank\">pinhole photographers on Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matchbox Pinhole 1 by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/9278304999\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Matchbox Pinhole 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr-migration\/9278304999_1397fc5988.jpg?resize=320%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Above is a photo of two ducklings (right of the photo) taken from a back yard deck. Below a park bench with a paper plate on it. \u00a0I was trying to photograph pigeons next to the bench.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matchbox Pinhole 3 by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/9278306305\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Matchbox Pinhole 3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr-migration\/9278306305_86254a40f8.jpg?resize=500%2C319&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Portrait of my daughter:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matchbox Pinhole 4 by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/9278305677\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Matchbox Pinhole 4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr-migration\/9278305677_e8950a53a4.jpg?resize=313%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and some buildings in downtown Denver:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matchbox Pinhole 5 by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/9278306233\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Matchbox Pinhole 5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr-migration\/9278306233_58615b61bf.jpg?resize=500%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matchbox Pinhole 6 by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/9281090622\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Matchbox Pinhole 6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr-migration\/9281090622_1f604e9c0c.jpg?resize=500%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I&#8217;m back to conventional photography&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I posted about a project where I taught teens in one of Windhoek&#8217;s vulnerable communities to make matchbox pinhole cameras. \u00a0I lamented how few of the photos had turned out because I had failed to actually make one of the cameras myself in order to use my own experience to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1303],"tags":[902,903],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genphotography","tag-matchbox","tag-pinhole"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}