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The weather has been incredibly beautiful recently so brought along my

Crown Graphic on a bicycle ride around the valley.

Birthday party snapshot

Only had my point and shoot with me.

Tried my Crown Graphic out for some sports photography.

I came up with the idea of creating my own zine with these after I cleared the first few negatives and after having a few people write some notes about their containers. I already have a couple of ideas for future zines.

 

The theme for the series is Containers and Their Owners. I'm a huge alt/underground music fan, The Fall being one of my favorite bands, and I re-listened to a early song of theirs the other day, Container Drivers, the chorus goes:

 

"Containers and their drivers"

 

And the idea for this series popped into my head, I don't know any truck drivers but I'm pretty sure everyone owns a container and many people probably have some favorite containers. From there things just kind of gelled.

Thank you Fred. "terns of the word 'fragile' written on the box" was a happy discovery, once discovered I wasn't about to turn the box around. I consider adding more handwritten text to some of the boxes but I ended up not wanting to detract from whatever genuineness the background has. FYI, A LOT of the small boxes are from shipments of used camera stuff I've bought just in the last couple months.

I did this setup two Saturdays in a row and for the second set the boxes are arranged in a more detracting order with lots of the labels near the heads of the subjects. I did keep "fragile" in a similar position but I'm not as happy with the rest of the layout for the second round:

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I'm lucky I have several friends who have similar ideas to mine so I can just let them do their thing as it was in this case.

Part of a project for a zine.

Thanks Jim. I shot another round yesterday, just need to finish scanning the original batch, and finish clearing the negatives and scanning yesterday's batch. Here's the positive from the grand finale yesterday:

 

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Part of project for a zine.

Wish this negative hadn't gotten so distressed during developing.

Comments much appreciated, especially ones pointing out how this image

could be improved.

Snapshot with my old beat up Olympus Stylus, I like the grain on the

chair and dresser.

Starting to shoot more architecture images.

Finishing off my pack of Polaroids after a project was completed.

I'm going to make another round of test exposures tonight, a little later in the evening, and with more tilt to isolate the satellite dishes better.

Testing some old Type 55 film (exposure and dev time) and trying some

lens tilting for the first time. From the roof here at work during a

break from our huge current project.

You crack me up Lex. But, yeah, the whole two turntables and a microphone thing are where I started from a few months before I set this one up.

 

 

Listening to the Some Velvet Morning off of that Nancy Sinatra album as I type this!

Thanks for critiques of the arrangement Ken.

 

To answer both you and Lex, the bleed off of the album cover is an artifact of not peeling the mask off of the instant film. It's probably a distraction for unmanipulated Polaroids.

 

Re: the shadow, I purposely went with one light to simulate a divey club with only one spotlight.

 

I'm not into stuffed animals or cutesy still lifes but I hadn't shot a photo in several days because of work and threw this all together because I was jonesing to shoot something.

 

Oh, and I didn't mean to mislead people regarding the back album, my gf thought it was the Ramones, but it's actually Tom Jones Live in Las Vegas!

 

Hahaha. Thanks again Lex and Ken.

My hibiscus has been cranking them out lately. This flower was in an

accessible area of the bush so I grabbed my Polaroid and snapped it.

Someday I'd like to make a capture of a flower that I'm happy with so

I'd like your critiques

The funny thing is the guy on top doesn't drink and the guy on the bottom hadn't started yet.

One of 29 Polaroids taken during a fun little project with my friends

and the Los Angeles River.

Memorial Day BBQ

One of the first images I took with my Crown Graphic and Fuji FP-3000B45.

Created for ALC Ride benefit show.

My favorite pet picture.