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It’s been a while since I’ve gone out shooting for myself. This afternoon I got a chance to walk around the block. About 20 minutes of alone time. My class had their shot to a deadline project and they were off busily creating images. I’ve been thrown some curve balls as of late, so it was kind of nice. Even if it was only 20 minute. Here are a few of the images.

The image below is just converted to B&W, the watercolor effect is from the tint on the window that was all bubbled up and peeling. I liked it.

I have a Saturday Photo Design class, which is basically a Digital B&W printing and composition class. Today we all went to the Dayton Art Institute. They got to look around and shoot for class. As a bonus I got to shoot!

Yes, it’s been a while.

These are what I found.

These 10 images are of the Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church in Dayton Ohio.

He kinda liked it!

Well, I’ve been on vacation for the last week (No Internet also). I have about 13gb of images to process, but this one was one of my favorites.

It’s from the balcony of our hotel room. Our first real family vacation in 6 years.

Well, things have been crazy at work and home. I been away for a week or so and now I’m ready for more!

I was thinking about why I love Polaroid film so much. If I look back at my childhood, I can remember seeing my first Polaroid at age 4 or 5. I was amazed the first time I saw that Polaroid picture develop. It was a big deal and it would help lead me to the life I live now. (Photogeek and proud of it)

In the 70’s my parents ended up divorcing. We didn’t have much money, so there usually wasn’t film for the camera. But, I had no shortage of imagination. I can remember many hours playing photographer with that Polaroid Big Shot. Some of those images present themselves in my viewfinders still today. I have many (about 20) Polaroid cameras, but I haven’t found one of these. Ours got lost or thrown out when I was a teen and I kind miss it. You can see one here, http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Big_Shot

So last week, I took one of the Polaroid cameras on our family trip to the zoo. This was a source of great entertainment for everyone, especially the people at the zoo. People would stare and you could hear comments like, “I haven’t seen one of those in years” and “do they still make film for that?” My father-in-law laughed and brought up the fact that “it wasn’t very green”. I’ve never had a problem with looking a little odd and this is a “must have” trait for photographers.

I have lots of Polaroid’s of my son and hopefully some day he’ll realize how special that is.  Considering most of the children his age may never see a Polaroid. I truly hope that the Impossible Project and groups like them succeed in saving Polaroid.

The best part of the day was a little 8 block photowalk in downtown Covington Ky. Below are a few shots from the walk.