This quote should be on the WW pinhole photography day site and posters. Richard Heather
lisa styles wrote: > Leonardo da Vinci seems to have found the magic that we are all so attracted > to in pinhole photography. If he were still around today I reckon he would > be into this discussion group! > > Love the quote Lonnie, thanks :-) > > > Before the invention of photography, here is what Leonardo da Vinci said > > about the camera obscura. Can you pinhole photographers relate? > > > > "who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the > > universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature > > such as these? What tonque will it be that can unfold so great a wonder? > > Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discource to the considering > > of divine things. Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of > > every part of the universe are contracted to a point. O what a point is so > > marvelous!" > > > > --Leonardo da Vinci > > (1452-1519) > > > > Lonnie Paulson > > Minneapolis, MN > > USA > > >
