More New York Streets

Still wandering with the 103 Land camera looking for images on the go.

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new York Streets #1

Time to wander from the Hotel, this is mid town NYC on a hot ealry August morning. Polaroid Land Camera in hand looking for instant (in more ways than one) shots of streeet life.
Store dummies and the man in the white shirt coming towards me - no time to think, shoot and peel!

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Polaroid Fenland Project

An on going project to document the Fenland area around Warboys using mainly instant film, in this case Fuji 3000B pack film in my Polaroid 103 Automatic Land camera.
This film has a box speed of 3000 ISO and is VERY sensitive to the smallest light leaks in these old cameras. This 103 is one of my better pack cameras and leaks are generally few and far betweem.
With this project I am trying to record the essence of the fens, straight roads (droves), drainage ditches and wonky electricity poles feature heavily.

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Another Place

Antony Gormley's "Another Place" has fascinated me since my first visit 4 years ago.
The statues cover 2 miles of beach and the cast iron figures are cast from his own body - much like his famous "Angel of the North"
Thought they needed the Polaroid treatment
103 Automatic Land Camera loaded with Fuji 3000b

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Abbey College Polaroid Art

These wall paintings had caught my eye over the years. Finally decided to have a go with the Polaroid 250 Automatic Land Camera (see below)

....loaded with Fuji FP3000b instant film.

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Harley The Hairy Biker

I followed Harley and his owners Alan and Tina into our local Tesco store. They parked their motorcycle and sidecar and I asked them if I could take a few instant pictures. Turns out Harley is quite a celebrity, he has been on Look East and the One Show and has his own web site http://harleythehairybiker.weebly.com/

Don't you just love those goggles.

Whils everyone else were "chimping" at their digi images I was able to give Alan and Tina a nice instant B&W print.

Nuff said

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Chester Canal Walk

Another busy day ends with a night away from home. Ah but the sun is shining and the evenings are stretching out AND I have my Polaroid 103 Automatic Land Camera and Olympus 35RC rangefinder cameras with me.
A walk along the canal soon began to reveal shapes, shadows and textures.
The Fuji 3000b instant peel apart film coped pretty well given the high level of local contrast.

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Fenland Project

Fenland revisited, big skies, straight roads...beautiful....at least it is to some of us...I guess moutains streams and spectacular scenery does it for others.
Appreciate where you are, where you live....look at it through fresh eyes....see the unseen, the overlooked the forgotten and above all......

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Great Yarmouth with the Polaroid 103

An overnight trip to Great Yarmouth on a cold January evening.
Before driving home on the Saturday I walked along the seafront with the 103 Automatic Land Camera and the 420 Automatic Land Camera. The 103 was loaded with Fuji 3000b and the 420 with Fuji 100c silk.

Seaside towns out of season look drab, deglected, unloved and expectant.....what great places to look to "see what things look like photographed".

Now, I have shot many rolls of traditional film in GY over the years, and many other seaside towns come to that but since I got hooked on instant photography my desire to record my home town and the Fenlands where I have lived for 11 years has been rekindled with a passion.

So, to kick off here are three observations from this cold January trip.

Fenland Project

More studies under the "Fenland Project" banner using the 103 Land Camera and the wonderful Fuji 3000b. This garage has now ceased trading and sits on the edge of the Fenland Market Town of Ramsei in Cambridgeshire

Fenland Project

What is it about old signs? well they make great black and white images for a start and doesn't the Polaroid 103 Automatic Land Camera handle it well.
With little time available to spend in the darkroom the buzz I get from peeling apart a new instant black and white print is enormous.
Both these photos were taken outside the home of a vintasge car collector in Somersham near Huntingdon/