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Portland, Oregon.
22 October 2023
Polaroid Automatic 225.
Fuji FP3000B (use before date: 2014-11). Inverted negative.
for Polaroid Week Autumn 2023 Day 5/1.
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha1 SE, Polaroid Originals B&W SX-70 film.
Polaroid Week | Autumn 2020 | Day 2 | 1/2
Ugh, terrible terrible scanner at work. But getting there was beautiful, yesterday was somewhat rainy and today I woke up to a thick fog and empty streets.
This would be perfect with some zombies rising out of the mist, but I don't think even my sturdy Polaroid land camera could survive the zombie apocalypse.
A potbank (the local term for a pottery works) has existed on this site by the Caldon canal since 1785. The last firm to occupy the Lord Nelson Pottery Works was founded by Elijah Cotton in 1880 at Eastwood Works, Lichfield Street, Hanley, now owned by Emma Bridgewater Ltd, the largest of the last eight pottery manufacturers in Stoke-on-Trent today. In 1885 in need of larger premises to meet growing demand, Cotton built a new factory on the site of an older potbank on an extensive site fronting onto Commercial Rd, with a quay on the Caldon canal to the rear. The firm of Elijah Cotton Ltd has always been associated with the manufacture of jugs of all shapes and sizes from three fluid ounce miniatures to giants of ten pints, exported all over the world. In the early 1950's Lord Nelson Pottery had become the largest single producer of jugs in the Potteries but by the '70's, like the rest of the industry in Staffordshire, Elijah Cotton Ltd. was in sharp decline and went into Receivership in 1981. Today this historic building lies neglected and derelict; a base camp for crackheads and petty criminals who are steadily removing the fabric of the building, and what isn't being stripped out is torched by arsonists. After I had taken this photo I stood for a few minutes and watched a man through one of the broken windows pulling up floorboards and sawing them in half to carry away. Photographed with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
114. - The Left Shoulder Joint, Scapulo-Clavicular Articulations and Proper Ligaments of Scapula.
Original photograph taken with a Polaroid SX-70 Alpha1 SE using Impossible Project Color SX70 instant film.
Emulsion transfer onto heavyweight matt laser print of a scan from Gray's Anatomy 1st edition reprint.
Polaroid Week | Spring 2016 | Day 3 | 1/2
Vintage Polaroid Land Camera from the sixties for the Smile on Saturday Group, challenge: Camera. Happy Saturday!
The Land Camera is a model of self-developing film camera manufactured by Polaroid between 1948 and 1983. It is named after their inventor, Edwin Land, who developed a process for self-developing photography between 1943 and 1947. After Edwin Land's retirement from Polaroid, the name 'Land' was dropped from the camera name. The first commercially available model was the Model 95, which produced sepia-colored prints in about 1 minute. It was first sold to the public on November 26, 1948. -- Courtesy Wikipedia
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha1 SE, Impossible Color SX70 film, Gen 2
Polaroid Week | Spring 2016 | Day 1 | 1/2
I dug up this old print recently, shot with the original Polaroid Land Camera in a photo store. No touch up provided. This is part of my newly created Vintage Photo album.
Polaroid week, day 3.
Remnant of old Route 66; Tucumcari, New Mexico.
Polaroid SX-70 OneStep Rainbow + The Impossible Project black/yellow Duochrome film.
The 'Surrealist Piano' was first conceived by Salvador Dali in 1954 and was cast in 1984 by Pereos of Switzerland. The lost-wax bronze 60cm high edition was limited to 350 pieces. The traditional piano legs are replaced by those of a dancing girl, the front legs provocatively splayed emerging from skirted frills that run beneath the keyboard. The leg at the back of the sculpture is also framed by a frilled skirt and all three are booted, Dali's design was informed by the can-can culture of 1920's Paris of his youth. On top of the piano is a golden ballet dancer reaching out and mirroring the shape of the piano’s lid. The high-culture of the ballet dancer’s pose contrasts with the more vulgar forms of the skirted piano legs. This singleton full-size casting is privately owned and has appeared in exhibitions around the world. It is seen here in the grounds of the Castle as the major piece of the Shrewsbury Arts Trail 2023 (on view until the end of August). Taken with a 1981 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Supercolor Autofocus on Polaroid (TIP) film.
Between Heath's Passage and Short Street off the Uttoxeter Rd. Longton, Stoke-on-Trent is this hidden yard with a Grade II listed calcining kiln; in the background is the Enson Pottery Works. The bottle oven is just 34' tall with a diameter at the base of the hovel of 9'. The kiln was used to heat flint rocks up to 1400°C to make it friable, which was then ground to a fine powder and used in the clay mix of white-ware; animal bone was also baked in the same kiln but to a lower temperature of 850°C. The bone, like the flint, was then ground to a powder as a constituent of porcelain, also known as bone china. The kiln had ceased to operate by 1960 and the site was taken over by W.J.Shenton and Son manufacturers of rustic garden furniture. Under the Clean Air Act of 1956 after a grace period of 7 years bottle ovens could no longer be coal-fired, however there was no law to prevent Shentons from using it to burn timber off-cuts. The furniture manufacturer was still in operation in 1975 but is thought to have closed shortly thereafter and the site has been left derelict ever since. What is unusual is to find the large pile of flint rocks seen here in the foreground of the photograph, as though ready for the next firing. It seems that no one has bothered to move it since the kiln was last used for calcining some 60 years ago. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
Spring Polaroid Week, day six. 1 of 2.
Bleached/reclaimed negative.
Polaroid Automatic 103 Land Camera + Fuji FP-100C instant peel-apart film.
172. -Muscles of the Gluteal and Posterior Femoral Regions.
Original photograph taken by Polaroid SX70 Alpha1 SE using Polaroid OriginalsGreen 600 instant film.
Emulsion transfer onto sketch pad paper laser print of a scan from Gray's Anatomy 1st edition reprint.
Spring Polaroid Week, day two. 1 of 2. Self-portrait.
Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera + Polaroid Originals film.
The pottery manufacturer Burleigh occupies the C19th Grade II listed buildings known as Middleport Pottery, Burslem. The business was established in 1851 at the Central Pottery, Burslem as Hulme and Booth but was taken over in 1862 by William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess, trading as Burgess & Leigh. In 1887 the company acquired Davenport which was based at nearby Longport Pottery Works. With the purchase came a range of moulds dating back a hundred years to the 1790's; Burleigh retains an outstanding collection of historic moulds which are still used today in the production of Burleighware. The company moved to the present factory at Middleport on the Trent and Mersey canal in 1889, seen at the time as a model pottery works. In the 1930's the trading style was changed to Burleigh as a combination of the names of the two owners and by 1939 employed 500 people, exporting widely to Europe and America. Burleigh continued in the ownership of the two founding families until 1999 when it was purchased by William and Rosemary Dorling, trading as Burgess, Dorling and Leigh. The company fell into financial difficulties in the face of cheap imports from the Far East and today Burleigh is part of Denby Holdings Ltd. having been acquired from the Dorlings in 2010. Burleigh continues at the Middleport Pottery Works in the manufacture of high quality earthenware using traditional skills and processes including underglaze transfer printing, nowadays a rare form of decoration, and is one of the last eight major pottery companies still manufacturing here in the Potteries. On the right of the photograph the remaining bottle oven of the original seven, six of which were demolished in the 1960's can be seen with the Mangle Tower to the left. This kiln was used for firing the biscuit (the first firing of pottery before it is glazed). Following the final firing in a muffle kiln, the glazed wares were dried on continuously revolving shelving in the Mangle Tower to the left which was built in 1921 and is the tallest surviving in the Potteries. Neither building is in use today; as with all modern industrial potteries, Burleigh uses gas fired computer controlled tunnel ovens. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
{flower district, nyc}
This was one of my earliest flower district polaroids (10/05) and the version I had posted was horribly scanned so I deleted it. I also eliminated the polaroid border. I think it works better without one.
1940's Ford Pickup Truck
Photographed with a Polaroid Land Camera Model 150. The film is Kodak T-Max 100, expired 8/1997, developed in Kodak HC-110 Dilution B for 7.5 minutes.
104. - Temporo-Maxillary Articulation. External View.
Original photograph taken with a Polaroid SX-70 Alpha1 SE using Impossible Project Color SX70 instant film.
Emulsion transfer onto heavyweight matt laser print of a scan from Gray's Anatomy 1st edition reprint.
Polaroid Week | Spring 2016 | Day 5 | 1/2
Johnson Bros
In 1883, Alfred and Frederick Johnson formed a pottery company and began production at the Charles Street Works, Hanley which they purchased at a bankruptcy sale. At first they specialised in the manufacture of earthenware which they called "White Granite" because of the white glazed finish over a hard clay base. Increasing demand lead to expansion of the company and in 1888 third brother The Reverend Henry Johnson joined them, followed ten years later by a fourth brother Robert Johnson. The company developed a product known as "semi-porcelain", a range of pottery that had the characteristics of fine china, but the strength of ironstoneware. This tableware range became very popular in the United States due to its durability and low cost. In 1889 Hanley Pottery Works, the first of three additional factories in the Eastwood ward was opened, followed almost immediately by the Alexander Pottery and in 1891 the Imperial Works. In 1896, the Trent Sanitary Works was opened adjacent to the Imperial Works for the production of non-tableware products (the clue's in the name!). An aerial photo from 1935 shows 25 bottle kilns of varying sizes on the Trent Sanitaryware site besides these two Grade II listed calcining kilns left standing today (calcining was the process by which flint was heated to over 1350° C to make it 'friable' so that it could be crushed into a powder and added to the clay mix to increase the strength of white ware. By the end of the 1930's the original factory in Charles Street was closed and new technology was introduced into the three pottery works either side of the Caldon canal, with the development of modern systems of firing using electricity rather than coal,. This in turn led to a better quality product, lower prices, and improved conditions for the workforce. However for the duration of WW2 shipments to the main market in the USA ceased and production was greatly reduced. After the War business picked up rapidly and new markets opened up but the 1960's saw a change in popular taste, rising competition from the Far East and spiralling production costs. To remain competitive, in 1968 Johnson Brothers amalgamated with the Wedgwood Group but in 1995 the Hanley Pottery works to the north side of the Caldon canal was closed and demolished to make way for a housing estate. In 2003, the manufacturing of Johnson Brothers products in Stoke-on-Trent ceased and was transferred to Indonesia, where production costs were 70% less than in Britain. Over 1400 jobs were lost with the closure of the remaining two Johnson Bros factories, the Imperial Pottery and the Trent Sanitary Works. In 2008 the Waterford Wedgwood Group itself went into Administration but was was acquired by Finnish company Fiskars seven years later. Production of the Waterford and Wedgwood brands continued in Indonesia but the Johnson Bros brand was phased out. The last vestiges of this once mighty enterprise is three Grade II listed buildings, these two bottle kilns beside the Caldon canal and the offices of the Trent Sanitary Works on the Eastwood Road . . . oh, and I've got a cupboard-full of Johnson's London white ware! Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
With much care and consideration, and through the proper channels I mind you, I gained permission from the Department of General Administration to come on the campus of the old Northern State Hospital. There are very strict rules one must abide by to photograph these wonderful buildings, and careful attention was tended as I made my way throughout the grounds. I can’t begin to describe how peaceful the campus was, despite the fact that it is an active campus, currently housing Job Corps. There was a slight chill in the air and a trace of snow cover on the ground. The halls, dorms, quarters, chapel, and main hospital are glorious, though underutilized, lying fallow, wanting and waiting for a much need resurgence. It is said that time, patience, and perseverance will accomplish all... in the case of Northern State, it is a shame that such a wonderful institution was ever closed in the first place.
These photographs are being used for a souvenir booklet to be eventually sold at the Sedro-Woolley Museum... stop by for a visit when you’re in town and peek to see if it is available!
Me, in the mirror, today at lunchtime, with the Polaroid Land Camera Colorpack 2 (c.1969) visible.
Our scanner is kinda bad, and the photos were sticking to them, hence the weird sticky marks in strange places.
Its generally accepted that one of the primary drivers of the 'Industrial Revolution' was the mass production of cast iron which began in the steep sided gorge through which the River Severn flows, between the parishes of Madeley (the opposite bank in the photo) and Benthall. In 1709 a mile downstream in the Shropshire village of Coalbrookdale, Abraham Darby pioneered an innovative method of iron smelting using coke from locally mined coal to fuel the furnace known as Bedlam, supplying the metal for the manufacture of machinery such as the steam engine, spinning jenny and the cotton gin upon which the Industrial Revolution was based. As industry around the gorge grew, so did the need for a strong and durable bridge to transport goods across the river. In 1773 the Shrewsbury architect Thomas Pritchard put forward plans for the world's first iron bridge across one of the busiest trading rivers in the country. Pritchard’s designs were approved by Act of Parliament in 1777 and construction commenced. Overseen by Darby’s grandson Abraham Darby III after Pritchard’s death, the 30 metre single-span bridge supported by five main semicircular ribs, formally opened on New Year’s Day 1781; using a total of 378 tons of iron at a cost of around £6,000, equivalent to approximately £1.4m today. The bridge continued to carry traffic including cars, lorries and buses until 1934 when it was finally closed to vehicles and designated an Ancient Monument. In 2017 it underwent a major conservation project to underpin and strengthen the structure and is now open to pedestrians once more. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film