Photography by Valerie Burke

Waterfalls

These images were shot with a 4x5 pinhole camera and Polaroid 55 P/N film. The images range from natural to abstraction.

Shells

This shell series is part of an ongoing series in which I explore the shell in still life settings using a shallow cylinder pinhole camera ; the latter panoramic shells incorporate shells in a changing context.

Abstraction

Flying Over the Yukon

The images in this gallery were made with a 35mm pinhole camera and also a direct scan of natural objects from the landscape.

The Thin Man-- Pinhole Photography

This series of still life images represent the travels of an ear cup figure to many places--real and imagined.

Shall We Dance?

Women I've Known

Women I've Known is a series of still lives from every day life. In reflection, After putting the images together in a book format, I realized that the work had been created by a Woman I Know.

Through the Pinhole

Floral

My Pinhole Cameras

Pinhole cameras offer me an opportunity to explore an image is a unique way. They are used for their depth of field, distortion, multiple imaging and angle of view.

Cyanotypes

Cyanotypes are like photograms; however, they are printed on a sensitized surface with a cyanotype solution and printed out in the sun and then rinsed in water for the image to appear. The process is a 19th century one.

Lumen Floral Gallery

The Waterfall Gallery consists of pinhole photographs taken across the United States.
I used Polaroid 55 P/N film which gave me a positive and and a negative. I shot with a 4x5 with a 3" focal length wooden camera. I began the series looking for portion of the falls that gave them a new look; I ended up with Falls that took on an abstract look. The latter was what I was looking for.

Valerie Burke

Fine Art Photography