More Polaroid Shenanigans

I can't quite get over how beautiful these are in the flesh. Starting to get a bloody expensive way of shooting things though.

Birthday Card Making

Prior to my Mum and my Aunt's last birthday (natrually, you never mention numbers when women are concerned...) I took the decision to hand make cards by shooting elements on my SX-70... Due to some short sighted-ness on my part, I ended up stuck in the middle of nowhere (Lincoln) with the camera that always ejects two shots, and isn't always that reliable, as you can see from the shots above. Needless to say, they were probably the most expensive birthday cards in the world, ever...

Collectors Corner

Like every photographer, I've got a selection of somewhat weird and wonderful cameras that I never quite use often enough (or in one case, have never used...) and as such over the (supposed, in Britain) warm and light summer months I thought that I should really start using them.... The first such camera I had a go with in one of the instances of decent weather was my Polaroid Sx-70 (Alpha One), which is possibly the most beautiful camera in the world, both for what it does and how it looks....

The beauty of this current Polaroid is that for every shot you take, it fees through two sheets of film, which seem to (fortunately) display the most amazing patterns and shapes... And then the exposed pics are just beautiful. It's a real shame as vintage Polaroid has such a romantic, dream-like quality which is unlike anything else I've tried. They'll be plenty more pics to follow from it, film funding allowing. I've got two more SX-70s, and wonder if they'll be as eccentric - find out more in the next post from Collectors Corner!