'Roid Week Fall 2010, Day 2

'Roid Week Fall 2010 is blowing my mind with its awesomeness!


Orson, Being Contemplative


Laika, Dreaming

I shot these photos of my dogs in the summer 2010 using my SX-70 camera and 9-year expired Time-Zero film that Tina very generously gave me for my Proposition Project. Thank you, Tina!

10/10/10, 10:10

It's 10/10/10, and this is how Laika spent her 10:10 moment:


Camera: Polaroid Spectra System SE
Film: Polaroid Spectra Grid Film (expired)

Color Shade is Here!

The Impossible Project keeps amazing me with their inventiveness! They've been working hard, creating new films--from scratch!--for all of us who love to shoot instant Polaroid cameras, and they just released their first color film! It's called PX 70 Color Shade, it's made for the SX-70, and this is the first photo I took with my first pack. The film takes a few days to fully develop, so I scanned a few versions, to show you how the images transform.

Laika in ColorShade (August 2010)


Here is the photo has about one hour of development. I love the cracklature effect!


Here's the photo about 17.5 hours after exposure. Notice the colors becoming richer and the illusion of cracklature disappearing...


...and here is the photo about five days after development.

I am in love with this new film, and I'm excited to watch the Impossible Project's progress as they reinvent instant photography! Thank you, IP!

This Weekend's Portraits

I've been working really hard over the past few weeks, but I've been trying to take photos here and there, mostly of my dogs, aka my babies! I took these two photos this weekend, and I really like them, if I do say so myself! I shot both of them using my Polaroid Sx-70 camera and a sweet box of the Impossible Project's PX600 Silver Shade/First Flush film.


Laika, 5th June 2010


Orson is a Yogi
I love this! Orson sits like this all the time, so I'm really glad this one turned out.

I hope you enjoy my little dog portraits from this weekend!

Final Day of 'Roid Week, Spring 2010!

Yesterday was the last day of 'Roid Week for Spring 2010, and I posted three photos! First, I posted these two (there is a limit of two per day/per person), both of Orson, my little dog, and both from my February session as a tester of the new Impossible Project film:


Orson Giving Me His Look
When Orson wants something, he sits up really straight, looks at you with this face, and high-fives you and makes weird little noises until you submit to his will!


Orson, February 2010
I love his cute profile and the grain in this photo. However, no one else seemed to like this photo in the 'Roid Week pool, and yesterday morning, I shot the below photo of Laika, so I took this second one of Orson out of the pool and added this one:


Laika, 7 May 2010
I used my Sx-70 and Fade to Black film for this one.

Overall, 'Roid Week was amazing, and I can't wait until the next one in the Fall!

'Roid Week, Day 3 = Laika Day!

Today is Day 3 of 'Roid Week, and I decided to share a couple of instant photos of Laika, my whippet, today!


A Laika Holgaroid in the Backyard, 24 March 2010
This was taken using my Holgaroid and expired Type 89 film


Rainy Day Whippet
This is a moody, arty photo that few people seem to like on Flickr, but I love it! This is Laika, doing what she does on rainy days!
I took this using my Polaroid SX-70 and expired 600 B&W film that Anne gave me (thank you!)

Only two more days of 'Roid Week! See you tomorrow :)

More of my Impossible Project Test Shots!

On Monday, I posted five of my shots from my experience as a tester of the new Impossible Project film stock for Polaroid SX-70 cameras. I'd like to share five more photos with you now, and I hope you like them!


I like my coffee analogue, like my photography


Laika, February 2010


I came across an Impala...


Peteena, Looking Tough


Jade, Looking Circumspect

I've added two of my photos from this experimentation to my Etsy shop as very limited edition prints, and will add more in coming days! Don't forget: the new PX100 and PX600 films for Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid 600 cameras go on sale tomorrow from the Impossible Project shop!

Orson is a Big Shot!

I recently got a super-rad Polaroid Big Shot camera, the kind of giant portrait camera that Andy Warhol made famous with his searingly revealing photos of famous faces, and I absolutely love it! I've only taken five photos so far, but I want to share one in particular that I think it pretty fun. :)


Orson, on a Snow Day, February 2010
Camera: Polaroid Big Shot
Film: Polaroid UV/ID (expired)

This is my little dog, Orson, wrapped up in loads of blankets on a day when we got a foot of snow! One of the things I love about this photo, aside from the fact that is it of a portrait of "my little boyfriend," is that it reminds of me this portrait of the Tudor King Henry VII:


As my friend Jake mentioned, it even has the correct claws/paws motif! LOL Yes, I did just compare my dog to a Tudor King!

I can't wait to share more photos from this fun camera! Until then, have a great week ahead!

My First Fade to Black Photography

Have you heard about the beautiful limited edition Sx-70 Polaroid film called Fade to Black? It's available from Polapremium.com, and it's extremely unique. The images for this lovely film--made from very expired Time-Zero chemicals--fade to black after several hours! They are ephemeral, magical, and yet, you can save them, if you stop the developing process using a variety of easy--albeit messy!--techniques.

I've had a few packs of this film for a couple of months, but I just got around to shooting my first image with the film yesterday--and I am already in love! I took this photo of my whippet, Laika, and scanned it within a minute of shooting.


Laika, 16 January 2010

I cannot wait to shoot more of this beautiful, mysterious film! Stay tuned!

A Star!

Sometimes you meet a star, and you don't even know it! In February 2008, I traveled to the beautiful city of Lisbon (Lisboa) in Portugal, and I took this photo of a dog in his window:


Doggie in the Window II (2008)
Camera: Lomo LC-A
Film: Kodak Ektachrome/Cross Processed

Well, imagine my delight when I discovered this fun photo of the same dog, in the same window, while glancing through Flickr's Explore this morning!



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Originally uploaded by whateveryou...
Click the photo to visit the page and see the photo larger!

I love him!!! I hope he's still there if I am ever lucky enough to visit that beautiful city again!

Laika Loves to Sunbathe!

My whippet, Laika, loves to sunbathe! She loves the heat so much that I have to monitor her when it's hot, to be sure she doesn't get burned! Here she is earlier this weekend, enjoying the 100+F heat of Texas in the summer!


Laika, 3 July 2009
Camera: Diana+ Edelweiss with a Fujifilm Instax Mini Back
Film: Fujifilm Instax Mini

And here's a secret special for you! From now until Friday, 10 July 2009, buy anything from my shop, mention "blog!" at checkout, and I'll refund your shipping!

Lazy Sunday

This past week was very, very busy, and by the time I wrapped up everything at work on Friday afternoon, I was ready to veg. The theme for this weekend seems to have been: "Lay around on the couch and accomplish as little as possible." I really needed that, even if I do feel slightly bad about it. Note to self: stop feeling guilty about having a day off!

Laying around reminds me of this photo, one of my favorite photos that I've ever taken of my precious whippet, Laika.


Portrait of a Lazy Whippet (2006)
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid Time-Zero
Location: Denton, Texas

I took this photo of Laika at one of those typical moments when she had planted herself on the bed while I had the sheets in the washer. We had just moved into our house here in Texas, from Florida, a few weeks beforehand, and she still had pine tar stains on her face and feet from our yard in Orlando. (That stuff is impossible to get off!) Anyway, the bed is one of Laika's favorite places, and I often get nice shots of her there. However, for this shot, I think the lighting and Time-Zero film worked a little extra magic; coupled with that classic hound expression and the super-comfy duvet, this might just be the most Laika of all Laika shots. ;)