Landscape Pinhole photos

I have been experimenting with pinhole photography for the last 2 years or so. I like the ultimate analogue nature of it, and putting them up here is kind of a contradiction to the ideas I have about the objects they are. The aspect ratio of the pictures is very much not digital/social media friendly, and although it may seem at the instance that it is just being contrary, it has pragmatism at the core. I was brought up watching 'old dusters' as my mother calls them, by John Ford, Howard Hawks, and William Wyler. In these movies, I saw a focus on the expanse of the west and of the landscape. I thought I could reproduce this glimmer of awe and a slower viewing of the subject.

I was thinking about designing a pinhole camera, and was looking at the paper format, looking at how light spreads through the pinhole, and back again... thinking of how I could economically make these long formatted images utilizing as much of the paper as I could. The paper comes 8 x 10 so I settled on 2 x 8... giving me 5 images per sheet of paper.

I have figured out how to reverse the negative image developed onto the paper chemically thanks to CAMERADACTYL Cameras Jo Van Cleave. Their videos are below.