Bluebells
My 5 year old grandson Joseph took this photo with an Instax Mini 90. He's very proud of it too.
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My one entry for #PolaroidWeek so far, because this is what’s been occupying my photo brain. I showed some of these in a slideshow with sound last month. They’re part of a bigger book project that’s just not coming together easily.

Also, the camera is dying.

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I've been busy this week with an upcoming Polaroid-related Thing (soon, soon!) but that means I haven't had time to produce anything new for #PolaroidWeek

I do finally have this Polaroid emulsion lift properly digitised and ready to show you though!

The original is on Yupo paper, which turns out to be a great medium for lifts if you want to be able to make the paper disappear after. And it dries totally flat 👍

Tempted to try printing it large to see what happens.

#Polaroid #EmulsionLift

Voyager

Space series outtake. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the only man-made objects to ever leave the heliosphere, the part of the solar system defined by the solar wind (they're actually still within the solar system, which also emcompasses the Oort Cloud, the collection of small objects outside the heliosphere that are still within the grasp of the Sun's gravity). Voyager 1 crossed the boundary in 2012, and Voyager 2 in 2018. This is what they see now.

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A couple of ghostly photos of Big Sur for the final day of #PolaroidWeek. This is from an OG pack of Impossible Project Silver Shade film, ca. 2010-11. The cold and rain didn't help the development.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was the end of manned space exploration by NASA working alone. Future initiatives like the International Space Station are done in collaboration with the Russians. Future manned missions appear to be slated to be the job of commercial companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin. Sadly, the Space Shuttle is remembered mostly for the two disasters that struck it, Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003.

Fin.

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"Frammento olistico #19"
Soaked Black & Red Duochrome 600 Film.

Autumn Polaroid Week 2023

Continuing series called "Holistic Fragments" made with soaked/manipulated new Polaroid film(s).

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Skylab

America's first space station, made from left over parts from the Apollo missions. It was used between May, 1973, and February, 1974. And here's something I didn't know until just now as I'm writing this: the SX-70 was actually used on Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 to take pictures of a video monitor on the space station to document changes in the sun from orbit to orbit. Polaroids were used in space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_SX-70

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"I fell asleep amidst the flowers for a couple of hours"
Autumn Polaroid Week 2023

Film: Polaroid 600 Blue Film Reclaimed Edition
Camera: Polaroid SX-70 + Mint close-up lens

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Big Sur and Point Reyes, for day 5 of #PolaroidWeek. I dug out a pack of OG Impossible Project PX100 Silver Shade film from the first year, 2010-2011. Got lucky that it still (mostly) worked!⁠
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📷: SX-70⁠
🎞: Impossible Project PX100 Silver Shade⁠

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Another photo in honor of this holy photography week. This shot had me digging out an old tape deck and cassettes. #PolaroidWeek #BelieveInFilm

Splashdown

Apollo capsules splashed down in the ocean until December, 1972. The SX-70 was introduced in April, 1972. Who's to say there wasn't someone on the recovery ship with an early SX-70?

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"Hangs"
Spring Polaroid Week 2023

Film: Fuji Instax Wide
Camera: Lomo'Instant Wide

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Artifacts of my little maple sugaring operation in New Hampshire in the late 80s and early 90s. #PolaroidWeek #BelieveInFilm

Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, ten days before my sixth birthday. It was a big deal, and hit me at a very impressionable age, ensuring a lifelong interest in space. This famous shot of Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon was taken by Neil Armstrong, the only other person on the moon at the time.

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"CAPTION HIM"
Autumn Polaroid Week 2023

Film: Polaroid Duochrome Black & Green
Camera: Polaroid NOW

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Day 5 Polaroid Week April 2023

Instax Square
Nons Camera SL660 + Leica Elmarit 35/2.8

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Gamboa Point, Big Sur, for day 4 of #PolaroidWeek. I dug out a pack of OG Impossible Project PX100 Silver Shade film from the first year, 2010-2011. Got lucky that it still (mostly) worked!⁠
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📷: SX-70⁠
🎞: Impossible Project PX100 Silver Shade⁠

#Polaroid #FilmPhoto

Double Exposure. #Photography #Polaroid #BelieveInFilm #PolaroidWeek ©mfjphotography

Two new #PolaroidLift images made today for #PolaroidWeek. Part of my ongoing obsession with monochrome leafless trees.

📱Camera iPhone SE 2nd edn
🎞️ Polaroid I-type black and white via Polaroid Lab
🔖 on watercolour paper

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