A photograph observing the sun’s rotations for more than eight years – believed to be the longest exposure image ever taken – has been found inside a cider can.
The picture shows 2,953 curved trajectories of the sun, which rose in nearly a decade of changing seasons.
Photographer Regina Walkenborg was a fine arts student at the University of Hertfordshire in the south of England when she decided to create temporary pinhole cameras lined with beverage cans with photo paper.
Walkenborg told CNN that he began experimenting with pinhole cameras after observing how the digitally driven community was changing.
“I wanted to see if the old analog style still had value,” he said, explaining that the photography style allowed me to examine longer expressions and miniature portraits.
He told Campbell that he thought the pinhole cameras were all out of order and that after finding most of the pictures in the cans had failed, he had thrown all the cans away.
“Fortunately, David had a vision before he put it in the tank,” Walkenborg, now a college photojournalist and visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, told CNN.
Inside the canyon was a remarkable image that shows the evolution of the Baffordbury Laboratory – the dome of the laboratory’s oldest telescope is visible to the left of the image, while the atmosphere built halfway through the exposure can be seen from the center to the right.
Long-exposure photography is often used to show the passage of time in a scene, and can be achieved on modern or older cameras by keeping the shutter open for longer periods of time.