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I dropped off my pinhole camera roll today & after I'd finished my errands they were ready.  I won't go into the lack of customer service at our HWY 49 Walgreens or how I will try my damn-dest to not ever do business there again. Instead here are the photographs:  Not bad considering the film roll was in a pinhole camera, that I made, then was transferred to a really old 35 mm camera in a dark bathroom, then wound back into it's casing in a dark bathroom.  I'm surprised there's anything there at all to be honest. The only surviving picture from the pinhole camera: Holly berries in my front yard. Now, all the Yashica shots: Cypress tree in my front yard. My sister at our front door. Sweet Gum tree from our attic window. I didn't take a photo of the ground.  Was this the guy in the backseat of our car snapping off pictures? Spacey water fountain downtown. Medical Records door in a downtown alley. Brickwork in a downt...

Notice the 'easy to build' logo on the packaging. I have wanted a pinhole camera since I was seven.  This Christmas my sister gave me one.  I was super excited and could not wait to put it together and start using it.  So, with my paint brush and glue in hand I got busy. I am a fairly smart individual, but the directions were deplorable.  It took me two hours to put this camera together and towards the end I had to scrap some of the directions all together and use my own ingenuity and the little bit I know about camera's to finish this project. Ooh!  I got the fancy zebra print one. So, now all I needed was 35mm film, but in this high-tech new world we inhabit where everything is digital (& considering the small town I live in), it took me a week and a half to find film.  But I did!  (Thank you CVS on HWY 49 for being the only place in town to offer one package of CVS off-brand film & one package of Kodak for my perusal - oh it's just...