593 artists in the gallery

There are 593 artists and just under 4000 images in the galleries at this point. These images represent an incredibly rich and wonderfully diverse range of experiences from so many talented and dedicated artists and photographers. I thank each and every one of you for your dedication, patience and passion.

Byron

Accented Names!

I think I've solved the handling error for accented names in the gallery! So,if I have your name spelled incorrectly would you please email me and I'll make the changes for you!

Byron

A lengthly absence

I've been absent for some time now, I thank you fgor your patience and continued support. Life is full of changes and of late I've had to deal with some rather life altering ones. I am well and back in some capacity though as you can see, at somewhat slower pave than in the past.

I've updated hundreds of images today and have caught up with the backlog of submissions. I declined only three images which were either not pinhole images or were malicious in nature.

Again, thank you for visiting and supporting the gallery.

Byron

A mid-winter's update

I finally took some downtime and sat down, coffee at hand and have been looking at this site again. No, it's no design beauty, but in function it's a lot like a pinhole camera, not too much by way of style, but it does some interesting things!

I've had a few emails about trouble uploading to the server. I also realized while I was testing the form that the form itself was really rather hard to find. I've changed that... look up in the top navigation, far right... The form seems to work fine. JPR, JPEG, ZIP and SIT files are accepted. Please, please, please say something about you and your work in the comments box!

Thank-you to one and all who ever and who will hopefully send more images. I can't name you all, you're mostly in the gallery or in the backlog; which I am working on managing!!

I've had several offers of assistance in terms of managing the site. You know who you are. I'm sorry it takes me a while to respond. This site and the artists represented here are a labour of love for me. It can be a struggle to do it justice. Thanks for your patience.

Byron

Greetings from Nepal.

I've been on a journey around Nepal with an old friend. I came to Nepal with a few notions and no expectations as to what I would find and experience here. I came to rethink my life and to examine it. What I found was far greater than I had any concept of.

I didn't come here as a tourist. I came to help my friend Tony Makepeace with the work he's been doing with the Nepal Community Development Foundation by photographing and documenting some of the projects that NCDF has been involved with over time.

We also went to the Nepal Orpans Home in Kathmandu to drop off some soccer balls and gifts. What I found and who I met challenged me to act and not merely observe.

Michael Hess welcomed us warmly as did the children. Michael shared with us first hand his story, which you can read here: Nepal Orpans Home. I'm not sure I can express in mere words how I felt and was and am moved by what I experienced.

"It's all absract until you have the emperical experience." is what Tony said to me. He's right. I needed to be there to know. To that end, I can only encourage you to do two things.

1. Donate to the Nepal Orpans Home:
   • Directly: Napal Orphans Home Donations
   • Through Possible Worlds: Possible Worlds Donations.
2. Or visit Nepal and spend time with Michael and the children. I know it sounds like a lot to do and a long, long way to go, but the journey will stay with you and if you help, even only a little, you will make a huge difference.

Byron

Yes, we're gone waaaay back in time.

Thing is, this site costs me a fair bit of cash every month and it's not easy. I'm rolling back to this old, old version that I have on my own server until I can figure out what to do with it all.

I might re-write it all, I don't really know but for the moment this will cost me about 100$ / month less than the most recent server/host.

Byron

Too cool!

http://www.photofiltre.com/

In case you need a nice, fast, easy way to edit your images I use this application called "Photofiltre" to do all the optimization and resizing for images in the gallery.

Easy to use, great UI and hey, if not free than darned near and besides, paying someone a shareware license keeps them going!

Too cool!

http://www.corbis.readymech.com/en

A friend of mine found this and thought it'd be good to post it here. I agree.

Sudden thought...

"Whatever you do, you have to do it as though it is the most important thing in the world."

-- Byron, 2007 on a Thurdsay while thinking about other things.

Eased off Google Ads

Hey. You might have noticed that I've eased off the Google Ads on the site. I'll have to ask you to overlook my having placed them throughout the site in such quantity. The ads help pay for the hosting costs of the site, which can be significant owing to the number of visits the site gets on the average month.

I hope you find the 'dialed-back' site with fewer ads and more content about the images to be pleasing.

Pinhole photography around the world

I'd really like to put an exhibition of single images from pinhole artists around the world. This would similar to world wide pinhole photography day, but different in that the images don't have to be taken on that day.

If you're interested in participating please choose one or two of the images you think best of and use the (upload form) upload your images to the gallery. Please provide details about your location and involvement in pinhole photography and about the images themselves.

Let's show the world the richness and creativity that abounds in the international pinhole photography scene!

The face of pinhole photography

I'm putting together a new facet of the pinhole gallery; a portrait gallery. If you're interested in participating please use the (upload form) upload your portraits to the gallery.

I'm looking at dividing the portrait gallery into two groups; self-portraits and portraits of others. So, if you have images that are suitable please send them in.

Stay tuned and I hope to see your images in the new gallery soon!

About the Gallery

The Pinhole Gallery started when I had to give up teaching. I wanted to continue to involve myself with photography in some way and pinhole photography was something I had been doing to the exclusion on pretty much everything else, it seemed the perfect thing.

I wanted to focus on the elegant simplicity and boundless creative possibilities that is pinhole photography. I also wanted to collect work from around the world to share it with people everywhere and excite people into starting to explore pinhole photography as a medium of expression.

The Pinhole Gallery went online in January 1997 and has been growing and changing ever since. The Pinhole Gallery is open to one and all with a particular focus on community, group and not-for-profit events and exhibits.

ATTENTION
Please send me your biographies and artist's statements! I'd like to include them in the gallery section. Send me your biography.

If you're just about to send images in, please fill in the comments field and tell us about you and your images.

Thanks!
Byron