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Digital Film Instant Photography

Beachy Head

In my day job I am lucky enough to work with people from all over the world. The ones that are new to these shores all seem to want to visit the same particular place – the white cliffs…

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Instant Life Photography

Life

It’s always reassuring after a dark and gloomy winter to see those little signs of life – buds and shoots and catkins – you know things are going to change, and soon. Then you turn a corner and see…

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Instant Photography

I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle – not only a pithy blog title for a post which includes a Polaroid photo of a castle I captured, but also a marvellous book which I’d forgotten all about (and MUST read again asap)…

me-leaf
Instant Life Photography

The big picture

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt So, the future – what does it hold? Truthfully? I don’t know – not yet anyhow. I’ve been waiting for some paternalistic, authoritive being to…

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Instant Photography

Derek Jarman’s Garden

When I visited the ‘end of the world’ last week (aka Dungeness – which I have written about here) one place I knew about already and was very keen to visit was the late Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage. Anyone…

quince blossom
Instant Photography

Polaroid Spectra 2

This is a great little Polaroid camera if you simply want something you can point and shoot with and not worry too much about focusing or lighting. Whilst it’s quite a big hunk of plastic to carry around, I…

100 days of winter flickr group
Instant Photography

Wowzers!

It occurred to be the other day that I hadn’t used my beloved Polaroid SX-70 for ages. I do find it takes the best photos when there’s LOTS of light – almost too much light, so what with it being…

apple tree branches - diana + instant back
Instant Photography

Twiggy

I was rummaging through my camera drawer (I could really do with a camera room, but a drawer will do for now) and I (re)discovered my Diana Instant Back. Being the impatient sort I loaded it with film right…

me with a leaf - polaroid
Instant Photography

Autumn

Polaroid SX-70 + 600 film +ND filter All seasons have there good and bad points, don’t they – here’s how I’m feeling about autumn so far… Good things: leaves (they look amazing at this time of year – makes…

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Instant Photography

Boat trip

These Polaroids demonstrate very well just how freakishly hot and sunny it was during our trip to the rain capital of the world aka The Lake District. This is the Ullwater Steamer, which easn’t actually a steamer but a…