I went to see the Mary Wallopers with Eileen last night, this morning we decided to scan a solarcan puck which had been attached to a lamppost at the northern end of Canal Street in Jericho for about a week around the March equinox.

The puck acts as a pinhole camera, containing a disc of very low-sensitivity photographic paper. This setup allows you to create very long exposure solarigraphs.¹

You can make your own solarcans, but we decided to buy a ready-made one from Sam ‘Solarcam’ Cornwell. The pre-made pucks cost £25 with nine exposures included, it’s not bad for a fun long-term photography project.

In this case, there’s an erratic pattern across the image; it looks like an insect got into the puck and crawled around on the paper.

I’ve got 8 more exposures to go, so looking out for good lampposts or bridges to attach a puck to. Along with the circular pucks, I’ve also attached a solarcan to the side of our house for a very long 6-month exposure.

In the meantime I’m listening to ‘building up and tearing England down’.