Quite a few years and possibly many of your Moons ago, this image White Tulips
won the Polaroid European Final Art Awards - colour print section
won the Polaroid European Final Art Awards - colour print section
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I should own up and say, I won it by default
How it happened - I shot the image on 4”x 5” Polaroid Type 55 film
and to be honest I didn’t rate the image at all and filed it under
Failures / sub-section - Never to be seen again.
Then I forgot about it.
Luckily an unprocessed Polaroid from the shoot fell down behind a bench in my incredibly damp
and to be honest I didn’t rate the image at all and filed it under
Failures / sub-section - Never to be seen again.
Then I forgot about it.
Luckily an unprocessed Polaroid from the shoot fell down behind a bench in my incredibly damp
darkroom.
When I say incredibly damp - think Troglodyte existence,
imagine mould spores mutating and meandering up the walls
Geologically, my darkroom provided a tunnel or escape route directly to Hades
When I say incredibly damp - think Troglodyte existence,
imagine mould spores mutating and meandering up the walls
Geologically, my darkroom provided a tunnel or escape route directly to Hades
Cathedral-like vaults full of stalactites and stalagmites, majestic curtains and surreal rock formations, and even a resident Hermit
In short a damp and smelly darkroom
The Polaroid festered there for a few years
from the Cretaceous Period to the Carboniferous
And then on one of those rare ‘Let’s clean the Darkroom’ days
I found the unprocessed Polaroid deep down in Hades growing and mutating some
In short a damp and smelly darkroom
The Polaroid festered there for a few years
from the Cretaceous Period to the Carboniferous
And then on one of those rare ‘Let’s clean the Darkroom’ days
I found the unprocessed Polaroid deep down in Hades growing and mutating some
unspeakable things
I gingerly picked it up and carried it out to the Light
I gingerly picked it up and carried it out to the Light
and promptly forgot about it again
Then I processed it and low and behold the damp of ages had performed a miracle
it had degraded the image and added some interesting blemishes and Serious Stains
I found myself in a (position of Quite Liking it)
I scanned the negative, tinted it, made a print and sent it poste haste to Polaroid
and they liked it too.
Then I processed it and low and behold the damp of ages had performed a miracle
it had degraded the image and added some interesting blemishes and Serious Stains
I found myself in a (position of Quite Liking it)
I scanned the negative, tinted it, made a print and sent it poste haste to Polaroid
and they liked it too.
Thank you for sharing your secret and your majestic curtains with us dearest Mr Biddle. May I say that the thought of said curtains and your fortuitous polaroid discovery has made a small tear of gin scented joy gently roll down my cheek (left upper). What an absolute delight you are.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your lovely comment Dawn, am enclosing a pair of the said curtains for your delectation and delight.
DeleteWhy thank you kind sir, I shall hang them by the doorway of glee at the entrance to the folly, accompanied as I always am on such occasions by my faithful Shrubbery Poets, who are, as we speak composing a little ditty in your honour.
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