Contemporary pinhole art photos of the beaches of East Hampton, New York, depict a familiar environment in a perspective seldom seen. A series of more than 160 colour and monochrome panoramic photographs capture five East Hampton, New York, beaches in a dynamic and at times otherworldly way. Their ethereal quality is achieved by using a century-old photographic technique where an image is projected onto film through a pin-sized hole instead of a lens. With exposure times primarily dependent on ambient light, the camera's manual shutter may be open on a bright day for as few as three seconds or 30 minutes or more at dawn. During that time, every subtlety of nature is recorded: a brisk wind pushes clouds across the sky, creating smooth streaks of white and pastel, while the tides render the ocean in creamy tranquility. In these infinite variations we are reminded of the cycles of nature, the course of time, and the optimism of tomorrow. AUTHOR: Phillip Andrew Lehans is an artist and photographer with a background in portraiture, fine art, and photojournalism. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2002 and is a 2005 graduate of the Hallmark Institute of Photography. SELLING POINTS: . A fresh and artistic perspective on East Hampton's beaches, using pinhole photography . Fine-art photography with a coastal theme and tranquil, meditative imagery . The photographs were captured using a manual-exposure-panoramic, wooden-pinhole, medium-format film camera 165 colour and b/w images
