The Longer Days

This continual six month prolonged exposure compresses the time from solstice to solstice (December 21, 2018 to June 16, 2019) staunch into a single level of gape. Dubbed a solargraph, the unconventional image used to be recorded with a huge, tube-fashioned pinhole digicam the utilization of a fraction of photographic paper. Mounted to a single insist at Casarano, Italy for the whole exposure, the easy digicam constantly records the Sun’s each day direction as a stunning path burned into the photosensitive paper. Breaks and gaps within the trails are resulted in by cloud conceal. At the finish of the exposure, the paper used to be scanned to dangle the digital image. Obviously, starting up in December the Sun trails peak lower within the sky, terminate to the northern hemisphere’s iciness solstice. The paths trails climb higher because the times grow longer and the June 21st summer season solstice approaches.