Willapa Bay iphone photographs
I learned in August that I had been offered a residency at the Willapa Bay AiR. I am very very happy about this. I’m going for a month beginning October 1st. At Willapa, they feed and house me and I just do my work. I recently bought an Ondu 120 pinhole camera (My Zero is on it’s way out) and it is a fit. I love the way it feels in my hand and so far it works fine and dandy. I have also made about 30 long exposure tins that I can put up around and
leave in place for a month. Of course I will also do some urban night photography.
I have been going to the Long Beach peninsula since 1985. My friends, Jo and Bob had a beautiful place in Seaview and I was welcome. Later, I went there with my daughter and we had many adventures with Jo and Bob and their family. Oysterville, the location of the AiR, is beautiful–old and full of ghosts. I have hundreds of photographs of this place from all the years past. They are typical of me: a mishmash of time well spent, of my daughter who was my partner in crime and the landscape, always the landscape. May I do that landscape justice with the pinhole, in this familiar yet odd place full of memories and ghosts.
UPDATE: I am at the Willapa Bay AiR!
Three weeks have gone by already. I am impressed by the seriousness of the people here. There are 4 writers, a painter and me. We are treated very well–Chris, the chef, cooks our meals daily. I feel so grateful that I have been given this time to work. Thanks to all the spirits past and present but especially thanks to Cyndy Hayward and Jeff McMahon for making this incredible place happen.
While my iphone photography is not pinhole, most of the iPhone images were made at the same time as the Ondu, the Zero, and long exposure cans were. The pinholes, the iPhone and the DSLR are cameras that are important in my grand scheme of things. I have only posted a few of these iPhone images to Instagram. I post them here because my pinhole work is film and negatives on paper and won’t be ready for another few months and I want you to see what I am doing now. My iphone is my diary. You want more images? Follow me on insta. neuhauserat1C and/or go to www.thepinholeproject.org and join the project.
UPDATE: It is now January of 2022. I have uploaded all of my iphone photographs from the Willapa Bay AiR and deleted those that were posted below and replaced those images with more than new ones more than you probably want to see. i shot over 600 iphone photographs during the month. I edit them differently each time I try. This edit is my top thirty or so. I have to remember these are iphone photographs. The thinking is that the iphone is inferior. I do not believe it. I will load the film images into this blog soon which are finally almost done. Hopefully you will see some similarities between the camera types. And I will learn something.
