Two Views of Papermill Creek, On the
Road Towards Inverness
Happy Mistakes
Pinhole Photography by Art One Students
Rachel Somerville, Teacher
Tomales High School
Students often struggle with a concern for perfection and a preconception that “good art” should be a precise rendition of real life. For a lesson in accepting the power of chance and happenstance in creative work, Art One students at Tomales High School received pinhole Holga cameras and were assigned to photograph the landscapes in which they live.
The pinhole camera is unpredictable because of its simplicity. There are no viewfinders, digital screens, or zoom lenses. The shutter, a flap of some light-proof material, is usually manually operated, covering and uncovering a pinhole cut into one side of a light-proof box. The smaller the hole, the sharper the image. Though the photographer has little control, resulting images are full of unexpected, beautiful mistakes.
Art One Students, Tomales High School, Two Views of Papermill Creek, On the Road Towards Inverness
Art One Students, Tomales High School, Black Mountain, Point Reyes National Seashore
Art One Students, Tomales High School, Black Mountain, Point Reyes National Seashore
Contributors
Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.
- Cover
- William B. Dewey Bay Patterns #2
- Prose
- Laurel Wroten The Birds and the Beef
- Elizabeth Leahy whitebird
- Steve Heilig Hiding Out with Joanne Kyger, Poet of West Marin
- Barbara Heenan Imagining Cherry Pie
- Karen Gray Letter from the Everglades
- Rosaleen Bertolino Silverton
- Francine Allen Things
- Elizabeth Whitney What Would Buddha Do?
- Sandra Nicholls Raising Rockettes
- Blair Fuller Tomales Bank Robbery, 1996
- Philip L. Fradkin Unpublished Manuscripts
- Poetry
- Terry Tempest Williams Finding Beauty in a Broken World
- Linda Pastan Late September Song
- Nell Sullivan Earthly Catalogue
- Jon Langdon Jenny Haiku
- Eugenia Loyster If We Should Die Tomorrow
- Joanne Kyger Night Palace and About Now
- Donald Bacon Oblique Tide
- Barbara Lovejoy Fog
- Gary Thorp Kehoe Beach Haiku
- William Keener Bolinas Lagoon
- Marilyn Longinotti Geary A Textured Felt
- Rick Lyttle A Dry Spring
- David Swain Witness
- Rebecca Foust The Last Bison Gone
- Murray Silverstein Song of the Field
- Agnes Wolohan Smuda von Burkleo Dear Friends in Minnesota
- Payne Jewett Shafter An Ode to Coffee
- Art + Artifact
- C.R. Snyder Election Sign on the Grandi Building
- Igor Sazevich Point Reyes Morning Spaces
- Tomales High School, Art One Students Happy Mistakes
- Amanda Tomlin Winter Night
- Rich Clarke Martinelli Bull, Highway One
- Nancy Stein Wave #44
- Elise Kroeber Marsh at Bodega
- Gale S. McKee On The Road and Leaving Home
- John Anderson SIME
- Annet Held Giethoorm and Staphorst
- Kathleen P. Goodwin South from Sculptured Beach
- Anne Vitale 57 Argyle: Vignettes of Home
- Fariba Bogzaran Invisible Dialogue
- Marin Literacy Photography Project La Vida
- Kurt Lai Reflection
- Ashley Howze Untitled
- Angelica Casey Untitled
- Evvy Eisen The Oysterman
- Louise Maloof Erika’s Apple
- Claudia Chapline Swimmer in the Sun
- Tomales High School Mural Project The Bounty of the Bioregion
- David Geisinger The Memory—II—Absence
- Carola DeRooy Belles Lettres
- H.D. Mott Shadowbox
- Kyle Govan Untitled
- Raul Macias Untitled
- Margarito Loza Untitled
- Molly Marcussen Untitled