Inside an artillery cannon, 120 seconds

            My first thought when I see a historical artillery cannon on display and open to the public to walk right up to and touch?  Get my pinhole camera and stick it as far down the barrel as I can.  After all, I use my pinhole to show me the perspective from places that I cannot get into myself.  It was the seed of the idea that got my Domesticity series started with the pinhole image made from inside the dryer.  Since then my pinhole cameras have ventured into all sorts of tight spots.  

This cannon is part of the display at Fort Casey on Whidbey Island.  The history of the place is fascinating as well as the math and engineering involved in operating such cannons at the time they were employed.  I have a head for math, so I was captivated by the historical photos of the artillerymen at work calculating ranges, velocity, azimuth, drift and the like.  Even the bore of the barrel, which is built in a way to cause the shell to spin, has to be taken into account as the shell will drift in flight.  I even spent a few minutes wondering why the bore runs clockwise as opposed to counter-clockwise.  That latter thought was a direct result of the attention I was paying as I set up my pinhole.  

Photography can be a means to several different ends and not all of them involve pictures.

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Taken on: November 14, 2018

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