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Recent Examples on the Web How these images were made: John Chiara built a large camera obscura, mounted it on a trailer, and drove it to various locations. — Robert Kunzig, National Geographic, "Let’s not waste this crucial moment: We need to stop abusing the planet," 13 Oct. 2020 Porter was a prolific inventor and is credited with dozens of inventions, including a flying ship, a portable camera obscura, a rotary plow, and more. — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, "The Eclectic Works of Scientific American's Founder Rufus Porter," 1 Feb. 2020 Based on a design by Leonardo da Vinci, the camera obscura uses sunlight and mirrors to project 360-degree views of the surrounding beaches. — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, "This San Francisco hike offers nature, history — and unobstructed views of the Golden Gate Bridge," 28 Feb. 2020 But Morell is well-known for another distinctive photographic approach: camera obscura, a technique that captures inverted views projected through a pinhole onto a surface in a darkened room. — National Geographic, "Tired of giving his wife flowers, a photographer created something new," 7 Jan. 2020 All photography dates back to an ancient optical effect known as the camera obscura, in which inverted images of external scenes or objects form on a white surface within a darkened chamber. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Scientists found these old photographs contain metallic nanoparticles," 12 June 2019 Photography Workshop Participants will focus on camera obscura and cyanotypes. — Houston Chronicle, "On the go: Pub crawls and Vince Young signs autographs," 3 July 2018 He was inspired by friends who made exact drawings using a camera obscura—a dark room with a small hole in one side, which projects an inverted image of the outside view onto the opposite wall. — The Economist, "Retro photography is in vogue," 2 June 2018 Obscurus Projectum Sandra Gibson, and Luis Recoder, art installation involving large-scale camera obscura. — Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, "Kids listings," 25 Oct. 2017

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