More about this Polaroid later – got to do some angle grinding now, must attend to the Chook shed!
OK, I’ve successfully managed to cut the chook (chicken) shed down to 2/3 it’s original size without actually injuring myself with any power tools (an achievement for someone as clumsy as I, believe me!) Why am I doing this? Well, we want to move the shed further into the NW corner of our yard, so my wife can extend her veggie garden, which is rather constrained at the moment, reducing the chook-shed dimensions will make it easier to move and make more space in the back-yard. There, now you know. Fascinating eh?
About this Polaroid. I had purchased a tatty old SX-70 from evilbay and wanted to try it out with some SX-70 film I had also procured from somewhere (can’t remember where) and my wife was going to visit a local nursery to check out the plants and so forth (as you do). We visited Cloude Hill which is a very pleasant nursery in Olinda (in the Dandenong ranges near Melbourne) with adjoining picturesque gardens which you can roam for a small fee. This shot, taken in the nursery section where they had lots of large sculptures, fountains and so on, shows a portion of sculpture (the spiky, curvy metallic intrusions into the composition) against a blurred background the rear of a standing water feature-thang (the blue). I had uploaded this to my portfolio of Polaroids at Polanoid.net ages ago but just recently received a message from a nice man who works at a French publishing firm who expressed interest in using the image for a cover of a book (of Andalusian Poetry) which is quite exciting as that will be a first for me. Anyway, I signed the contract and sent it off to France last week so hopefully this abstract Polaroid will grace the cover of a nice book soon!
Camera: Polaroid SX-70 Film: PolaroidSX-70 Instant Integral Film
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Great photos. I’ve included your blog in a recent posting “20 Awesome Photography Blogs – Melbourne Australia”. Please check us out when you have a moment. Best of luck and keep up the great work!
It looks like 2 eals in the sea, but it’s iron. Nicely seen and captured!
Bram
An interesting abstract. If you don’t mind… how do you get your Polaroids into digital? They look good.
Thanks all!
@ I Love Photoblogs – Thank you very much for the compliment!
@ Le Mak – I simply scan them in using my 8400f (Canon) scanner, which also suffices fo my negative scanning. I scan them in at 400dpi and at 200% size for my digital archives.
Beautiful. Wish I had some of this film left. I’m using Blend and 600, which is great, but I wish I had the option of rocking some awesome blues/greens like this.
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