Godfrey
Well-known member
I've just browsed the forums for the latest photos made with Sony A7/A7r, Leica M Digital, Leica M Monochrom, Olympus E-M1, Fuji X, and a couple others. Stunning work in all of them, by about a dozen different folks.
Yesterday I scanned 52 of my latest Polaroid/Impossible Project snaps. Yesterday evening we put on a Cinco de Mayo Festival for our friends and I shot another 21 Polaroid snaps of the revels. I'd be willing to wager that not a single one of these photos holds even the dimmest candle, technically, to what I looked at in the forums. But I find them satisfying, amusing, fun ... and even aesthetically pleasing anyway.
Thomas - Guadalupe River Park 2014
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar + Impossible Project 600 B&W
The cameras are sure fun to use. I used the Polaroid SX-70 and SX-70 Sonar with IP 600 B&W and IP SX-70 B&W. When I get the subject and the light right, what comes out in my hand is a perfect print. No muss, no fuss. Exactly what my mind's eye had in mind.
Shovels - Guadalupe River Park 2014
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar + Impossible Project 600 B&W
Why are we all so deeply, so intensely always looking for the better camera? Isn't what we have already good enough? Even if it's 42 years old and given up for dead by the popular trend?
Time to take that deep breath and enjoy what things we have, put aside the debate on the new things to a sideline, and get on with enjoying our world, our photography, our friends and family. The stories of life—joy, sadness, amazement, wonder, tragedy, and hope—that surround us all the time.
On Their Way: Harvey, Max, and Thomas - Guadalupe River Park 2014
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar + Impossible Project 600 B&W
Yes, there will be new things. I find little satori in them. In life, in art, in the stories that we have only this one chance to tell: That is where it lies.
We only have the one time through.
G
Yesterday I scanned 52 of my latest Polaroid/Impossible Project snaps. Yesterday evening we put on a Cinco de Mayo Festival for our friends and I shot another 21 Polaroid snaps of the revels. I'd be willing to wager that not a single one of these photos holds even the dimmest candle, technically, to what I looked at in the forums. But I find them satisfying, amusing, fun ... and even aesthetically pleasing anyway.
Thomas - Guadalupe River Park 2014
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar + Impossible Project 600 B&W
The cameras are sure fun to use. I used the Polaroid SX-70 and SX-70 Sonar with IP 600 B&W and IP SX-70 B&W. When I get the subject and the light right, what comes out in my hand is a perfect print. No muss, no fuss. Exactly what my mind's eye had in mind.
Shovels - Guadalupe River Park 2014
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar + Impossible Project 600 B&W
Why are we all so deeply, so intensely always looking for the better camera? Isn't what we have already good enough? Even if it's 42 years old and given up for dead by the popular trend?
Time to take that deep breath and enjoy what things we have, put aside the debate on the new things to a sideline, and get on with enjoying our world, our photography, our friends and family. The stories of life—joy, sadness, amazement, wonder, tragedy, and hope—that surround us all the time.
On Their Way: Harvey, Max, and Thomas - Guadalupe River Park 2014
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar + Impossible Project 600 B&W
Yes, there will be new things. I find little satori in them. In life, in art, in the stories that we have only this one chance to tell: That is where it lies.
We only have the one time through.
G