A Love Letter to Polaroids

I'm happy that the NYT story on Polaroids has been blogged and reblogged in so many places.  If you like photos, check out the new Lens Blog on The New York Times website.  This gallery of Polaroid photos was a great accompaniment to this article about the challenges about starting up production of Polaroid film again in the Netherlands.  The group working on this challenge has named themselves the Impossible Project.  

Polaroids were always around when I was little.  My uncle William is a huge fan of Polaroids and used to run a self owned business where he would take posed Polaroids at parties/events - either people behind a drop that had holes for their heads (so they would look they were a cartoony beach couple or other cartoon he had created) or putting Polaroids into cards that he had created for a Christmas events.

I loved the GIANT Polaroid project where pictures were created of New Yorkers and posted around Times Square in the late ’90s.  I’ve created Polaroid transfers and used the medium myself.

I certainly hope that the film comes back.  For now I'm entertaining myself with this iPhone app that makes photos look like Polaroids and slaps a sweet border on them.  See two of my recent "Polaroids" below:

[caption id="attachment_14" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The left one is Jones Beach, the right was taken of Don on the way to Jones Beach."][/caption]