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We installed a Solarcan PUCK for the duration of @

We installed a Solarcan PUCK for the duration of @analoguespotlight. For a single day it captured the Sun’s path as it traversed the sky above The Kiln in Worcester. Swipe to see the install and captured scene.

Join us and back the Puck on Kickstarter (link in bio)

100 day exposure of the sun’s path with the Chow

100 day exposure of the sun’s path with the Chowa-an building visible in the foreground. Love the sepia tones in this one!

©️ Simon Lorimer, 2022 🇯🇵

This is a 6 week exposure taken with a #solarcan P

This is a 6 week exposure taken with a #solarcan PUCK. Situated on the England/Scotland Border it was facing in a south easterly direction toward the forest of #kielder.

What you are seeing is the path of the Sun over those six weeks with the lowest line being March 18th and the highest line April 30th. Every day as the Sun passed through the pinhole of the Puck it scorched a line across the photographic paper inside, slowly building up the image.

Every Puck comes included with 9 sheets to capture similar images from a single day to a whole year.

⚫️✨ Back the PUCK today on Kickstarter and help make the world’s simplest camera a reality.

It's been a WILD first week of the Solarcan PUCK c

It's been a WILD first week of the Solarcan PUCK campaign. If you've not watched it yet, please check out our launch video, which we think is pretty splendid!

Find the link in our bio to Kickstarter where you can back the PUCK!

With all the excitement of the PUCK launch let’s

With all the excitement of the PUCK launch let’s not forget about the incredible #Solarcan installed around the world capturing extreme time exposures of the sun’s path. 🌏🌍🌎

This extraordinary capture by @eran.pinhasov from Israel shows cloudless seasons as the Sun moves vertically through the sky over the months it was installed.

©️ Eran Pinhasov, 2022 🇮🇱 💫

Introducing the Solarcan PUCK! ➡️ Now live on

Introducing the Solarcan PUCK!
➡️ Now live on Kickstarter (link in bio)

After 5 years of spreading the love of Solargraphy around the globe we are ready to introduce the coolest, most addictive Solarcan yet. We call it the PUCK!

We are absurdly proud of this. It’s been a concept for years. In beta for months and now just a dream come true. We are absolutely certain that if you love what we’ve been doing, you’ll love the PUCK!

Head on over to the Kickstarter and watch the video to find out a bit more about how it works!

Let us know in the comments if you’re planning on backing the PUCK! ⚫️✨

Here’s a #solarcan image that took one year to e

Here’s a #solarcan image that took one year to expose. Looking due West from Cornwall the pinhole embraced the prevailing weather and some ingress was evident. Gani, who captured the scene says the cascading corrosion effect really finishes it off nicely.

Thank you for sharing!

©️ Gani Naylor, 🇬🇧

Congratulations to Cam Ross who is the recipient o

Congratulations to Cam Ross who is the recipient of #solarcan production number 10,000 ! Here is the image he uploaded to the comp where he was randomly selected by lucky dip yesterday.

Here’s what Cam had to say about the shot:

“This Solarcan image shows all the sunlight from 2020. We mounted it on the south-facing roof of my friends house on New Year's Day 2020, and took it down 31 Dec 2020.

Notice:

a) it slipped at some point - the bottom dozen lines cross the rest. (But why are they also a different colour? I understand that this is because both sides of a solstice, the (vertical) rate of movement day by day across the photographic paper is very slow, and so there are effectively overlapping sunlight paths)
b) the big tree is clearly visible, as is the sunlight it blocks
c) the glass balcony at bottom

The can then dutifully sat on a shelf for a whole extra year, until the pandemic allowed me to once again visit my friend. We scanned it early Jan 2022. A time capsule of light, really.”

We never imagined when we started Solarcan that we’d make over 10,000 sun capturing cameras, yet here we are. Changing the world and filling people’s lives with sunshine, one exposure at a time.

Thank you to the whole community! 💫

©️ Cam Ross, 2020 🇬🇧

Check out the grand arch from this #Solarcan by @t

Check out the grand arch from this #Solarcan by @thisclosetoyou. 💫

Facing South from June to December the rays burned their way across the skyline capturing the silhouette of trees and a church.

©️ Laurence Arnold, 2021 🇬🇧

How much sunshine does Winnipeg get? You’ll be s

How much sunshine does Winnipeg get? You’ll be surprised. Check out this #solarcan submission sent in over the weekend. Here’s what Luci had to say about it:

“I placed my Solarcan on the top of my apartment building. Winnipeg is the windiest city in Canada, and I live a block away from Portage and Main, which is rumored to be the windiest spot in all of Canada. I was worried the Solarcan would blow down, but alas, it survived!” 💫

December to March End 2021.

©️ Luci, Winnipeg 🇨🇦 2021

A sensational #solarcan shot by Mato Peto who capt

A sensational #solarcan shot by Mato Peto who captured the Sun while facing Northwest in the Czech Republic.

Mato shared this with us via the solarcan.co.uk/10000 upload link and we were blown away by the detail and composition.

©️ Mato Peto, 2022 🇨🇿

There is something about this #solarcan image by @

There is something about this #solarcan image by @thouzie that keeps pulling you in. It feels like a liminal space - and perhaps it is. Here’s the description Mathijs included with the submission:

“This was a true Schrödinger's cat. Hung horizontally not that sturdy, being vandalized within 3 months.. Result waited for over 4 years to be opened up and scanned. It looked like a dancing lady when trying to decipher what was in the image, it took me some time to flip the frame correctly to reveal the sea view it had. Rocks going in to a silky smooth water, A very faint horizon and the plank where the solarcan was mounted against (yes you can spot the zip-tie there)”

It’s really remarkable and we hope you enjoy this unusual one as much as we did!

©️Mathijs, Helsinki, Finland, 2017 🇫🇮

Emma from Cambridge (myforeverbox) shared this ama

Emma from Cambridge (myforeverbox) shared this amazing 1 year #solarcan exposure with us this weekend. Capturing the sun’s path over her parent’s garden and presented uninverted for a different look. Love it! 💜❤️🧡💖

©️ Emma, Cambridge, 2022

The sky in Glashow is on fire in this sensational

The sky in Glashow is on fire in this sensational #solarcan capture over the Westend. Positioned perfectly South and processed beautifully it really stands out!

Caroline who took the shot asked why the Sun’s path is profited closer to the bottom. Long standing theory at Solarcan HQ is because the Sun’s progression up through the sky is slow around solstice time and it’s brighter because the paths lay on top of each other. During the solstice it stays within a degree of altitude for ~20 days

We bloomin’ love this one ❤️🧡💛💜💫

©️ Dr Caroline Müllenbrooch, 2022 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Serendipity played a part in the water damaged str

Serendipity played a part in the water damaged streaked over Jamie Millington’s magnificent #Solarcan image. The chosen colour tone and warmth it is presented as really finishes it off.

Exposed for 9 months in Manchester, it’s an excellent example of what you can capture. We love it. 💫💛

©️ Jamie Millington, 2021, 🇬🇧

Good morning! Start your day with this incredible

Good morning! Start your day with this incredible #solarcan capture of an incredible astronomical instrument by @portobellopictures

“This is a 195 Day exposure showing the motion of the sun as seen from the Mount John Observatory in New Zealand. At the centre of the image is the MOA telescope dome, the largest optical telescope in New Zealand. On the right is the dome of the 0.6M telescope. The lake is called Lake Alexandrina.” 💫

©️ Ian Griffin, Mount John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand 🇳🇿

Look at those thick lines of Sun! This could have

Look at those thick lines of Sun! This could have only been a #solarcan photo taken in San Diego, California.

Captured by @davidpollerphotos he describes it as “hardly the best foreground and direction for the sun tracking. Attached to a third-floor railing at the back of my house, overlooking an ugly alley.”

Well, we think it’s sensational. 6 months captured beautifully. 💫

©️ David Poller, 2022, 🇺🇸

A fabulous image by @cornedeweert.nl was shared wi

A fabulous image by @cornedeweert.nl was shared with us this week. Shot with a #solarcan colours, it captures 8 months of the Sun’s rays shining down on the Netherlands. 💫

©️ Corné, 2022, Netherlands 🇳🇱

This is a double exposure. Two #solarcan images ov

This is a double exposure. Two #solarcan images overlaid together to show the remarkable difference the location you are on Earth has on the altitude of the Sun.

Both exposures are from the first week of this year. The lower line was captured at 55 degrees North in Scotland while the higher path was visible from 29 degrees North off the coast of Africa.

Swipe along to see the images individually. 💫

The fear of rain ingress | June-December 2020 Poi

The fear of rain ingress | June-December 2020

Pointed northwest between the solstices.
Mounted on a custom bracket to point 27 degrees up to capture the sun at its highest point.
Realised immediately after installation that this risked rain pouring through the pinhole.
5 months of intermittent stress later and it turned out shockingly clean! 💫

©️ Kirill Jerdev, Bath, U.K. 🇬🇧

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