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Citroen 2cv
c.1960 Bodywork on 1983 chassis and running gear
Bridport, Dorset, UK
Polaroid SX-70
Impossible Project SX70 Instant Film
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
Flixton, Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Polaroid SX-70
Impossible Project SX70 Black and White Instant Film
Interior detail from the old kitchen at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, UK.
Calke Abbey is not an abbey by the way, it is a “stately home”. It was given over to the National Trust in 1985 on the condition that it was preserved in it’s then current stated of dilapidation and not restored.
Polaroid 100 Automatic Land Camera
Fuji FP3000B Instant Black and White Film
Negative Scan
Polaroid Week 2017!! Day 6 Shot #1
Another view of the beautiful building of the "Poste Italiane" in Forlì, Italy.
Fuji Instax Wide 300.
After an overnight stay in Cape May we drove back through Wildwood and the wonderful vintage motels and signs it has to offer. Ignoring the "Do we have to stop again" cries from the back of the car, we pulled over and I snapped this fabulous frontage of the Caribbean Motel with my huge Fujifilm Instax 210 instant camera
Wildwood is just great to visit this time of year. Most of the motels are yet to open and there's no parking problems. Not sure how many of the motels light their signs up in the evening though.
This is the Polaroid "Big Shot" camera. It is a rigid-bodied Polaroid Land Camera produced from 1971 to 1973.
The Big Shot is probably one of the most unusual cameras Polaroid ever produced. The elongated body of the camera is made entirely out of plastic and the camera itself is capable of taking close-up pictures from 3 feet away. The focus on the Big Sot is fixed and required the photographer to move back and forth until the image came into focus, this has been referred to as the "Big Shot Shuffle".
Despite its odd appearance, the Big Shot's features are pretty much standard for a Polaroid 100-series pack film camera of that era. It features a darken/lighten ring, a flashcube socket, as well as a development timer on the rear cover of the camera. The camera required not batteries to operate the flash; instead, the flash used "MagiCubes".
Today the ability to take close-up photos is almost taken for granted as nearly all digital cameras today (even smart phone cameras) have some sort of built-in close up or portrait function. In the 1970s there were few cameras capable of taking close-up shots besides a professional level camera for a photo studio, or and SLR with separate (and very expensive) close-up lenses. The nifty aspect about this camera is that it made close-up photography inexpensive and accessible to most people at the time for about $20.00 USD. However, because the Big Shot was only capable of taking close-up portraits, and due to its odd and unwieldy design, it is largely regarded by most collectors as a novelty/curiosity. The Big Shot was even a favourite of Andy Warhol, who used the camera's close-up ability to make portraits of celebrities.
A downloadable PDF of the manual for the Polaroid Big Shot can be found at:
This is the old station that was by the road and has been renovated and moved a few yards down the track.
Taken with my Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera and some 'Impossible Project' film, likley the Color Protection SX70 film.
EK6 Lentille 137mm f/11. Obturateur électronic. Vitesses 20-300. Année 1976-78.
EK4 Lentille 137mm f/11 Obturateur électronic. Année 1978-80.
MNAC Barcelona, Spain. Not centered...
Fall RoidWeek 2018, Day 5 Shot 1.
Lomo' Instant Wide + Fuji Instax Wide film
Sculpture by Maggi Hambling commemorating the composer Benjamin Britten.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK
Taken in rapidly changing light of the evening sun. This is probably the most successful set of shots I have had from a pack of Impossible Film so far in terms of the quality of the colour.
Polaroid SX-70
Impossible Project 600 Colour Film
ND4 Neutral Density Filter
Photographed in the churchyard of St Andrew and St Mary in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, UK
Polaroid SX-70
Impossible Project SX-70 B&W Instant Film
There are other cool and interesting trees around town, but I'm always intrigued by this trio around the corner, along the little river.
Fuji Instax 210 Wide
Fuji Instax instant film