Background.
A few years ago, I sponsored a Kickstarter campaign in which a UK photography enthusiast created a passive camera setup – beer cans filled with photo-sensitive paper. The idea was to place these passive cameras – “Solarcans” – outdoors to capture the sun’s rays. Of the five Solarcans I received, three of them produced usable images, while one actually got on the walls in Syracuse back in 2018.
Swank.
Recently, a new line of reuseable Solarcans – Solarcan Pucks – were Kickstartered. And I received my “thank you for backing me” box of five, along with a pack of photo paper inserts. I’m saving two of these Solarcans for photo projects for 2023 and 2024 … but for now, I wanted to test this little construct out.
I live in the Town and Village of Green Island, and we do get sunrises and sunsets at various locations here. The sun rises over the Hudson River and sets against I-787. All I need is a location where I can affix this little Solarcan Puck for a couple of days, and see what transpires.
I found a decent location at the corner of Swan and West Streets. This way I could get at least a clear shot of the sunset. If this works.
Solarcan affixed to a stop sign post. Hopefully nobody will notice it.
Two days later … I took the Solarcan off the stop sign post.
And let’s see what I got from two days of blaze.
Holy Helios, Batman … That’s freakin’ impressive for two days.
Gee … I wonder what two weeks of blaze might get me …
Or … what the hell … two months of blaze.
Yes. Chuck is having ideas again.
And these might be fun ideas. 😀
Chuck The Writer 
To this amateur it seems like ultimate success / satisfaction would be determined by the interaction of the sun’s shifting path pattern with the static environs.
Like maybe up and over a monument, barn, covered bridge, distant mountain…?
Oh, the possibilities.
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