Monday, October 1, 2018

Camera Obscura

Greenport, NY  2018

One doesn't see one of these everyday.  It was across the park from the carousel pictured in yesterday's post.  It wasn't open when I visited, but definitely worth a return visit to Greenport soon. 

Camera Obscura (noun)
1. a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography.
2. a small round building with a rotating angled mirror at the apex of the roof, projecting an image of the landscape onto a horizontal surface inside.

1 comment:

  1. The only time I have seen one of these was in Edinburgh, Scotland. Always fun to be inside one of these. Thanks for your comment today.

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