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Girl with a Prawn

Girl with a Prawn

Another image from the ‘old’ plastic lens which I am transferring to the ‘new’ plastic lens. (some comments will be older than post date as they have been transferred from the original post) Original post date: June 7 2007
I’m not sure why, but my eldest developed a strong attachment to this prawn at my sister-in-law’s company picnic. So much so she wanted to bring it home and make it her “pet”. We had to assure her it would go a bit off and wasn’t really an appropriate choice for an animal companion, especially considering it was, not to put too fine a point on it…dead. Besides, she still had the deaf cat, crazy chickens, and fluctuating number of goldfish at home.
So she contented herself with a polaroid memory, although in this instance the expired film gave her a bit of a prawny colouring in some sort of weird coincidence.

Camera: Polaroid SX-70   Film: expired Polaroid SX-70 (Time Zero)

This was written by Cameron. Posted on Sunday, November 2, 2008, at 20:28 pm. Filed under Colour, Polaroid. Tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

9 Comments

  1. Amanda GilliganNo Gravatar wrote:

    Ive recently discovered your photoblog and I love it!Its fresh and different.So great to see someone doing something different. I love your work and the videos are great too!

    Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 21:02 pm | Permalink
  2. angieNo Gravatar wrote:

    oh my gosh… this could be straight from a polaroid campaign. it’s absolutely perfect, cameron.

    Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 21:20 pm | Permalink
  3. [terrorkitten]No Gravatar wrote:

    wonderful Cameron….Like Angie said it could have come from the ad campaign! I have featured this one tonight if that’s aright with you? Hell I’ve done it anyway ;) Phil

    Friday, June 8, 2007 at 10:45 am | Permalink
  4. LisaNo Gravatar wrote:

    A classic. Full of charm, sweetness and humor – really a great one, Cameron.

    Friday, June 8, 2007 at 11:17 am | Permalink
  5. Otto K.No Gravatar wrote:

    What a terrific shot. Love it!

    Friday, June 8, 2007 at 23:14 pm | Permalink
  6. WarrenNo Gravatar wrote:

    Priceless, truly priceless. So much to love about this.

    Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 0:05 am | Permalink
  7. williamNo Gravatar wrote:

    are those lightleaks or just the result of the film being expired? they add some nice texture to the shot.

    Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 13:06 pm | Permalink
  8. CameronNo Gravatar wrote:

    Thanks all,
    this image will be one of those ones that will come out at her 21st birthday (or is 18 the big one these days?)
    …oh boy am I going to be in trouble!
    Have a great weekend everyone!
    @ William – thanks. I think they may be a combination of light leaks and expired emulsion. The older SX-70 integral film cartridges often had warped cases, so light would often get onto the film, but the old emulsion also had weird colour shifts, so this is probably a synergistic effect.

    Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 23:13 pm | Permalink
  9. joeNo Gravatar wrote:

    ah i love the look of polaroid. beautiful tones.

    Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 15:34 pm | Permalink

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