Taken on my walk at lunch-time. If I had lunch about 3 hours later the lighting would be perfect for this. 

Polaroid

So we've been decluttering around the St. Pierre home for a good while now. Part of the process is looking at every single thing we own and deciding whether we want to continue owning it or not. Not so long ago my Wife was accepted in to Art School as a photography major (which changed soon after,) and had amassed quite a collection of vintage cameras. Most I didn't care about and we both never knew if some of them ever worked or not. They just looked cool. Well, of the bunch we had four polaroid cameras. Two of them pack type film cameras and two of them 600 series.

I bought some film from The Impossible Project for the 600 cams. Honestly, haven't gotten a chance to shoot with it yet, but from what I'm seeing on flickr or deviantart.com results vary greatly, and then there's the chance that the person's camera might not be working right, or maybe the film really isn't "there" just yet. [update, as of tonight I just received an email from Impossible, they have a new formula for their instant films now, so perhaps the quality will become more consistent?]

The film for the Polaroid Land Camera is still made and easily available from Fujifilm. For the standard color format the part number is FP100-C. and I'm enjoying the hell out of shooting with it. The cameras I have are a Polaroid 100 and a Polaroid 440.

Here's some samples of the images I'm getting out of these cams.

Small amount of curves adjustment in photoshop on this one

No adjustments at all on this one. 

The smiling ear to ear little boy is my kiddo. That's his first ever ice pop so he's awfully excited.

I just received 5 more packs of film (10 shots to a pack) today in the mail and I look forward very much to my new analog hobby. 

Steve

Nice size dent you left, buddy.

Latest Short Dedication

"This one’s dedicated to all the great raging fires that have brought freedom to the oppressed, and H-E-Double Hockey Sticks to the oppressors."

Very cool video

Trader Joe Dark Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans

Tomorrow: Detox.

So...finally bought a kindle.

Flipping loving it. I've been selling off or donating large amounts of my book collection as well. An event happened a few months ago here in the house we're living that made my wife and I realize just how important it is for us to get rid of the glorious amounts of stuff we've been drowning in for the past few years. Having gone from a large three bedroom house with detached garage and work-shed in New Jersey to this small trailer in Massachusetts has really helped us realize how much we own that we really don't need.

It started with clothes and shoes for myself personally. Then I moved on to my book collection, which was already out of hand when we had the house to begin with. When we first moved here we had this trailer filled, along with two 10x10' storage units down the street at the local u-haul self-storage center. We're now down to a single 10x10 and lots of holes in the shelves in the house here. Also selling my LP collection, most of which I already had digitally.

Also parting with my comic book collection and getting rid of some guitars and probably one of my amplifiers. I've been foolish with my money. Some Americans wouldn't think so, some would say it was my money, I deserve to be happy. I don't think that's why I was buying so much crap though.

I'm not comfortable right now to stick with one strain of thought. Too much going on with my life this week. Very busy with work and trying to letter a comic for a friend of a friend, which sort of is helping me realign my desire to only work for myself when it comes to my creative endeavors. If something is bad, I like being the only reason it's bad, just the same as I enjoy basking in the glory of a job well done. Maybe I've just never found the perfect creative partner, who knows.

Also, in completely unrelated news, Ryan Montbleau Band has a live show for sale on their website from 5/29/2011. It's amazing. I'm sure the other shows are great as well, but this is the only one I purchased. Just wonderful. I wish them great success.

P.S. The kindle is an awesome, life changing device. Glad it's not a color tablet.