Valentine’s day drive / anticipated orchids / did not disappoint.
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Big Shot Portrait: Dommy
Thanksgiving was made wonderful by a visit with my darling daughter, who brought my beautiful grandson Dominic aka "Dommy" with her! Of course I had to take a Polaroid Big Shot portrait of him! Well, OK, I took two... He was looking down in the first one, so I had to take…
Crescent winter moon / a fingernail lingering / briefly in branches.
Twoku:The fingernail moon / briefly entangled in twigs / from my point of view. Threeku: Fingernail of god / moon viewed through overhead trees / from where I'm standing.
Young oak which refused / to shed its leaves in autumn / smiles in snow and sun.
Texture of a cliff / beside curving road above / Delaware River.
After a meeting with a client in Port Jervis, NY, I headed north to a high cliff overlooking the Delaware River, where I paddled my canoe through rapids so many times in my youth...
New Year’s Day walk by the Sea
Well, I guess Long Island Sound is not technically a "sea" but it sounds better... 🙂 Walking by the water on January 1, 2026, it was quiet, cold, and deserted. As the late afternoon winter sun prepared to set, it briefly shone through an opening in the clouds, and…
Jazz Singer in the Red Hallway
Jumped on a late afternoon train to Manhattan for a 5pm client meeting and dinner with colleagues after that. It was a fast walk from Hudson Yards to 601 West 26th Street for a fabulous, quick client meeting, followed by a fast walk (uphill) to Izakaya MEW (east of…
So thankful / for all the loved ones / still with us.
Twoku: Reflecting upon / this year's many tragedies / glad for those still here.
Sun weakly tries to / unchill Autumn afternoon / unsuccessfully.
Twoku: Sun attempts / to unchill autumn / afternoon.
Colors gone / shooting monochrome / until Spring.
Twoku: Late autumn / colors gone, change film / black and white.
Hurricane / can’t stop costumed kids / from begging.
Twoku: A cold night cannot / stop the costumed children from / begging for candy. (Original version, circa 10/31/2011 -- right after the snowstorm) Well, Halloween is now officially a bittersweet holiday. Sure, it's the birthday of our two…
A yellow fountain / next to which things that are lost / may be found again.
Twoku:By fountain / a place where the lost / can be found.
Merry Grandson Christmas Eve!
My 2.3 year-old grandson Dominic a.k.a. "Dommy" was not with me for his 3rd Christmas (my 64th) but my daughter sent me many photos to enjoy. Of course, they were all super-cute and worthy of adoration, but this one -- Dommy in "Ho Ho Ho" wrapping paper -- made me…
Big Shot Portrait: Julien
Julien is my other French colleague in NYC for client meetings this week. I brought my Polaroid Big Shot, loaded with discontinued, crazy expensive FP-100c pack-film. We met in a restaurant, where Julien decided to turn the "pack-film-peel-reveal" video into a…
Portrait of Tyler McFarlane (blog post)
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Extended Family Polaroids
Two family members got engaged after years of being virtual fiancé and fiancée, which -- though long overdue -- demanded a family gathering to celebrate! They brought some new, extended family members we'd never met before: the sister and mother of the fiancé. Of course,…
Life’s lenses blurring / vision and memory are / approximations.
First haiku-senryu style short-poem post in a long time. Original iPhone photo // no edit Subject: Police Car in Rain at Dusk through Raindrops on a Windshield.Location: Stamford, ConnecticutCamera: iPhone 16 Pro MaxFilm: N/A (it's…
PolaCon Portraits: Melissa & Oliver
I noticed Melissa as she was being photographed by someone else, standing in front of a seamless paper backdrop lit by a single "softbox" studio light. She seemed friendly, very comfortable in front of a lens, and had a certain style. When the other photographer…
On My Way to PolaCon NYC
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed... No, wait, that was Snoopy launching his career as a great writer with a manual typewriter... 🙂 Actually, IRL... It was a gloomy morning in late May. A Metro North train from…
PolaCon Portraits: Alex
Alex is a "work friend" that became a dear friend over time, whose initials are "AF" which I find endlessly amusing. I've mentioned Alex elsewhere on this site, including my Instant Photography page and a previous post about Polaroid and PolaProjects. He is one of two key…
Me, Moi-self & Eye at Polacon
This 2025 edition of the PolaCon NYC event was just like the last two: LOTS of people shooting each other with a wide variety of instant film cameras! As usual, I had a blast capturing portraits of all the interesting and fabulous people there, but it was inevitable…
Oscars Night in Los Angeles
As luck would have it, I was in Los Angeles for work and a visit with my son, when I discovered it was Oscars night! After my son flew back to El Salvador from LAX, I was alone in my hotel, so I went up to the rooftop restaurant for dinner to console myself. It was…
