woodland

My "death is a meal" print was featured in this really beautiful treasury:



Thank you Raganella!

Bike & Beach

This afternoon I rode my bike out to Golden Gardens. It was a super beautiful day. Here is what I saw:

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LION&LAMB

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.. the variety of sky on a single spring day ..

MT. SI

 

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almost there

 

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christmas drive back home:

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the new year

I was at Mt. Hood for New Years and got to try some new things with the Polaroid. On our last night we visited Timberline Lodge and oh! how I fell in love! I think maybe I want to live there. The lodge itself was incredible, being built completely by hand in 1936 by the WPA. It was full of hand crafted textiles, ironwork, woodwork and more! Plus, outside you can play in the snow however you like and the view of the mountain, even in the dark, is mind blowing! Such a good vibe there!! Here's what I saw during my tromp about:

 

 

We arrived right at the beginning of dusk and I'm surprised I got as many as I did, I think all the snow helped by reflecting what little light there was. I'm guessing the green aurora in each is from the cold. I tried a double exposure for the first time and it totally worked! (third down) Very excited to do more of those. I also tried shooting people inside for the first time - and although we had to turn the lights up bright and they still came out dark, it was quite a lot of fun. I hadn't shot people or a group before, I liked the challenge of watching and waiting for just the right moment.

 

 

Not. Too. Shabby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sun was so bright! In December! Everything looked like a story book and crazy things happened with my film. It was an excellent day.

CarkEEk Park

Took the Polaroid to Carkeek Park this weekend to explore. YES! NEW PARK! MORE PORTRAITS OF MY TREE FAMILY!! The weather was on the lighter side of grim for once, and my enthusiasm was through the roof.

 

There's a creek in this park, very cool. There were even spent salmon in it! (too bad that photo didn't come out - so rotty...cool!)

 

I'm starting to catch on to focus, light and shutter particularities but here's my trouble - when I'm outside its difficult for the photos to dry properly, and when I put them away they stick together creating blemishes. Any suggestions outside of just waiting longer to stick em in the envelope? Is this a temperature thing that could possibly lessen in the summer time? Is there a magic paper I can stick between the photos? Am I just being lazy? Will trade for magic secrets.

*thanks ben, for getting me there and putting up with my raw enthusiam. !!SQUIRREL!!

*very* amateur photography

Ok so here are some of the pictures I've taken with the Polaroid:

Focus and light (whats the photography word for this? aperture?) are manually adjustable, as is shutter speed to some extent. (I've found that sometimes when I hold the trigger down the shutter stays open til I lift my finger, sometimes it just does its own thing.) I've found we do best with vistas and landscape type shots, mid-range and close-ups are pretty dicey right now - I think due more to my inexperience than any lack of ability on the cameras part. Also, I am a weiner and the first few exposures are really hard for me to pull out of the camera. :) The exposures also dry funny and get really dirty when I'm outside, as I'm sure you see above.