Pinhole #91, El Paso, Texas

Text and Photograph by Bruce Berman

Remember these?
2 1/4″ film developing reels.
How many million times did I load these with Plus X film after a shoot.
How many hundreds of times did I ruin a few frames because the film end stuck to the layer below?
Guilty!
After “it was all over,” the film era that is, I used pinhole to demonstrate the fundamentals of photography to several generations of students. A lot of the old gear made good subjects. The old was useful to the new. Made sense. Like a circle completed.
They loved it. I loved that they loved it.
Like a morning mist those times were gone in a flash.
That’s one of the reasons we do photography, right? To hold onto what is gone.
Yeah!