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Secret Doorway

Taken at the playground near my apartment.

Shadows 1

Shadows on the concrete produce many "what do you see" moments. Kind of like nature's Rorschach test.

Filter

Was going through my files and found this old favorite. There used to be an alleyway piled with debris at my old place of employment. Found this filter laying in plastic orange safety "fencing." Taken with my Nikon N75, Fuji Chrome film.

Leaf Skeleton

More playing with my thrift store camera. Taken after a heavy rain.

New Camera

I am no longer a Luddite when it comes to cameras. I have finally joined the digital age with a Nikon Coolpix 5900. The zoom doesn't work, but all of the other settings do including macro...

Not bad for a 5 buck camera, with a 512 MB SD card, from the thrift store.

Lamp Post

This isn't a black and white photograph. I actually shot this on Fuji colorslide film. It's 15 multiple exposures of a corner lamp post on a single slide on a snowy day. I like how it makes the street almost look like an iced-over stream with ghostly reflections in it.

Lightbulb and Bricks

I haven't done any black and white photography in a while...

I don't know why I don't shoot with b&w film very often....I tend to always like the results.

Polaroid

I haven't mentioned on my blog, but I collect Polaroid cameras. I don't have a large collection by any means, but I have made some wonderful buys in thrift stores, garage sales, and craigslist. I have an SX-70 II in its original box (with a Kamera flash to fit in its original Woolworths box), a ColorPack I, a ColorPack II, a Captiva SLR, a JoyCam, and the first One-Step (in its original carrying case). But, as we Polaroid lovers know, the discontinuation of Polaroid film has made it impossible to find it except for a few overpriced exceptions on Ebay (and I've yet to win a bid).

In spite of this, I still collect Polaroids because I love them. But I have missed being able to take those wonderfully faded, slightly out-of-focus pictures. So imagine how happy I was to find a Polaroid 600 on my local craigslist (600 films are more widely available). It even came with film, which is slightly out-of-date and is producing some wonderfully washed-out pictures.

Don't you feel like you could walk down this breezeway and go right back into the 70's? And, hopefully, the Impossible Project will be a success and bring back more film for us Polaroid lovers.

Playing with Photoshop

I finally started playing with the Photoshop Elements that came with my Bamboo Fun. The leaves picture is mine incorporated into a Photoshop layout.

It's a start....

(P.S. I've spent the last week and a half playing Dr. Doolittle at a friend's house in, literally, the middle of nowhere. I'm going to catch up on emails this weekend...I promise!).

Happiness is an Epson V200 Scanner

Roses after the rain....

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