John Grey
Dunstanburgh
You find a spot low down on a stretch of coastline. You’re in luck, it’s level and you can put down the wooden box just out of reach of the tide. You can remove the lens cap and let the light through the pinhole. It’ll be good – you could feel that from the moment you arrived. You don’t know exactly what you’ll get, but after all these years you and your little light-proof box are a team.
Not a perfect team – sometimes the box slips as you expose the film. Sometimes you forget to count one-monkey-two-monkey-three-monkey-four and before you know it 10 seconds have gone by, or is it 20?
But you know the box and you know the light and sometimes it feels like the box knows you. And on a day like this, when there are limpets and a castle and just the right amount of tide, you and the box are the perfect team.
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