The Impossible Year

Tag: i still believe in film

  • A Fresh Start, 1 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 (Self-portrait inspired by Andy and my 2020 self-care journey) When I retired this project in January of 2014, I didn’t know if I would ever return to it. Keeping it going across road trips to Texas and international travel was a lot of work.…

  • Montrose & Wolcott, 31 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   New Years Eve was a quiet one for us. The sky was clear, the weather was chilly but not horrible.  I made a stop at Chicago’s Pizza for a slice to go and picked up coffee from Starbucks since all of the good…

  • Faintly Falling Ashes, 29 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   The year decided not to go quietly as Chicago got hit with a thick batch of snow and temperatures below freezing for days. But at least it looked pretty.

  • Garage, 28 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Beth Ann dramatically reworked and reorganized the garage to better use it for ceramics.

  • Montrose Brown Line, 6 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I walk to the Brown line almost every morning to get my coffee and breakfast from Spoken, and yet I can’t remember the last time I rode the CTA. It’s truly surreal. I miss it like I miss a friend. Something I’d never…

  • Mysterious Children Statue, 5 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biking by the Sulzer Regional Library on Lincoln Avenue I noticed the, already strange, statue of children on a log had been fitted with some books, to make it look like they were reading, so had to snap a photo. In researching for…

  • Ultimate Dunking Set, 4 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   One of the silliest things we own, a set of Oreo mugs with a holder and tongs specifically for dunking. Also, the Oreos in this are the ‘Trolls World Tour’ Oreos that have popping candy in them, which are truly a bizarre experience.

  • Web Orders, 1 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I tweeted out a link to this piece and wound up with a truly flattering number of web orders of my print work suddenly. A very nice surprise. I’m truly flattered by every sale.

  • Expired Film Failures,  6, 7, 8, 9 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Impossible Deep Woods (Expired) I hit a frustrating batch of film and tried to shoot my way through. Somewhere along the way we went to Mars Cheese Castle just over the border into Wisconsin to buy cheese and beer.

  • Film Fail, 30 September 2020Polaroid OneStep 600/Impossible Pioneer film Color Gen 2 (Expired)   *sigh*