Yay for Polaroid Week!

Day Four of RoidWeek 2023. My last shot of Polaroid Reclaimed Blue 600 on the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar. A budding tree against a blue sky ( with faint clouds).

Polaroid Week April 2016, Day 7

Impossible Project Gen 2 B&W 600 film.

Impossible Project 600 Gen 2 Pioneer test film

Blossom seems like an appropriate way to start the Spring 'Roid Week :)

Another thing I love a lot are prism lenses, they give another dimension to our photos!

Polaroid Sx-70 Sonar

Manual focus

SX-37 adapter

Triple prism filter lens

Vivitar closeup diopter 2x

Neewer CPL filter

Polaroid Color I-Type film

Production Date: 12/ 22

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Polaroid Sx-70 Sonar

Manual focus closeup 30 cm

P. O. Originals color 600 film

No ND filter

Darken

Production Date: 09/ 19

sx-70 sonar + mint close-up lens

polaroid week spring 2017, day 2/ image 2

"It is at the edge of a petal that love waits."

- William Carlos Williams

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar

sx-70 sonar + impossible project film

I had the luck to find this strange beauty at the market months ago. I started collecting stapelias before because their interesting look... a kind of creepy lovecraftian look. Some people call it "Demogorgon flower" due to its resemblance to the monster from the Stranger Things TV show. These flowers have a soft rotten smell so it can attract flies for the pollination, you can only smell it when you're too close to the flower, so it's not a problem at all!

After I tore it when I was making a dry lift/ transparency I had the idea to make a emulsion lift with the part that stayed on top of the white stuff, so it ended up being an hybrid lift (wet emulsion/ dry lift).

Polaroid Sx-70 Sonar

Manual focus

SX-37 adapter

Vivitar closeup diopter 2x

Fog effects filter lens

Neewer CPL filter

Polaroid Color I-Type film

Production Date: 12/ 22

Polaroid week spring 2017, day 3, image 1

“My body's been touched a thousand or more times but I am craving something so much deeper than that ~ I desire to be felt, right down to the core of my soul and the corners of my heart. That's what love is about isn't it ~ cracking yourself open to the possibility that it could change your life.”

― Nikki Rowe

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

― Anaïs Nin

For Day Three of RoidWeek 2023, I’m continuing my experiment using Reclaimed Blue 600 on the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar. Today’s first photo is a movie marquee in Westwood, New Jersey.

Mulholland Drive / The monster behind Winkie’s.

Roid Week Spring 2017 Day 2

Impossible Project SX-70 film (7/16) - Polaroid SX-70 Sonar

Looking over little yellow flowers towards cherry orchards in bloom. Sigh.

Impossible Project PX680 Color Shade Test Film in a Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with ND filter.

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with Impossible Project 600 Gen 2 Pioneer colour film.

A restaurant in Saumane-de-Vaucluse.

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with Impossible Project PX70 Color Protection film, l/d halfway to dark.

What's left of a failed concept lies in a Roselle yard.

Lost Highway

spring polaroid week 2017, day 4/image 2

There was a stunning sunset, thick colours, heavy clouds.

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with expired Polaroid Originals (09/19) film - darken 2 notches.

Riis Park, Rockaway Beach, New York

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with expired Polaroid Originals (09/19) film - darken 2 notches.

Riis Park, Rockaway Beach, New York

Frank Booth

Polaroid Sx-70 Sonar

Manual focus closeup

SX-37 adapter

Vivitar close up diopter 10x

Neewer variable ND filter

Polaroid color 600 film

Production Date: 08/ 22

Roid Week 2012 Day 1 - 1

Happy Roid Week!

So here's the first one, a Figaro light. Similar to a shot I took a couple of years ago with my very first pack of PX100: www.flickr.com/photos/jakem/4481793229/

Looking forward to paddling in this year's pool!

It's been a wet spring in the South of France, and everything is very green. The meadow round my parents' house is flowering.

Polaroid week 2017, day 1.

So glad Polaroid week is here ! :-)

In Provençe at the very start of April, I timed it perfectly for the cherry blossom. My mother tells me that two days after I'd gone it had moved on, leaves coming through.

Impossible Project PX680 Color Shade Test Film in a Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with ND filter.

sx-70 sonar + mint close-up lens

Polaroid Sx-70 Sonar

Manual focus closeup

Polaroid B&W SX-70 film

Production Date: 04/ 21

Blue Velvet

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with expired (09/19) Polaroid Originals film. Darken 2 notches.

Riis Park, Rockaway Beach, New York

As seen from Madison Square Park

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with Impossible PX100 UV+ test film

Polaroid transparency with a pink wrinkled tissue paper as a background

Polaroid Sx-70 Sonar

Autofocus

SX-37 adapter

Vivitar closeup diopter 2x

Polaroid color Sx-70 film

Production Date: 08/ 23

It's so rare to find polaroid film locally, most of the times I get them from Polaroid North America, Amazon or Ebay and I have to wait weeks or even a month or a bit more to have it in my hands. But the time I got a fresh pack of SX-70 film from local Facebook marketplace I wasn't surprised it was heat spoiled: the heat was so much that time and the seller said no when I asked him if it was preserved in the fridge, but at least he was honest and also showed me a photo he took with another pack he used, and it had a magenta interesting tone, so I had no problem to buy it.

The result was an awesome hot pink colour after I got the transparency on top of a pink tissue paper...so, no regrets!

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with Impossible PX 600 UV+ film & ND filter

An ode to Dave's awesome photo of Whitney.

polaroid week day 5, image 1

Hilly village in the Luberon hills

Polaroid SX-70 OneStep Sonar with Impossible Project PX100 UV+ test film

St Saturnin-les-Apt

Polaroid SX-70 Sonar with Impossible Project PX70 Cool film, L/D dial 3/4 way to dark

Polaroid Day April 2016 Day 6

Impossible Project Gen 2 B&W 600 film in a Polaroid SX-70 Sonar

Looking through my back catalogue, I found some un-uploaded shots I took last year...

Polaroid Sx-70 Sonar

Manual focus

SX-37 adapter

Vivitar closeup diopter 10x

Neewer variable ND filter

Polaroid Color 600 film round frame

Production Date: 08/ 23

Animals can be so restless, especially rabbits but luckily my lovely model stood still for some seconds.

polaroid week day 4, image 1

"Decline is a form of voluptuousness. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation." ~ Iwan Goll

"La pourriture est une forme de volupté. L'automne est aussi sensuel que le printemps. Il y a autant de grandeur en mouriant qu'en procréeant." ~ Iwan Goll

Someone didn't read the memo!

For Day Three of RoidWeek 2023, continuing my experiment using Reclaimed Blue 600 on the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar. Today’s second photo is this back swamp at late in the day.

sx-70 sonar + impossible project film

It's that time again...'Roid Week!! Whoo!

Taken at Navy Pier in Chicago. This Ferris wheel is HUGE.

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'Roid Week, Day 1!