It's Where You Step Back and Take Stock

Emmy 1-8 Shot using the same pack of expired Impossible Project PX 70 Color Shade PUSH film using a Polaroid SX-70 Normally I'd talk about the beauty of failure here, but not this time. I've decided to take some time away to take stock, try new things, and really figure out what I'm trying to do with photography. http://flic.kr/p/ejcBhy

Rabbit

Nashville, Tennessee I love my mum's back yard, a sanctuary-like extension of her pretty amazing house. She's spent years creating a garden setting to rival the best botanical garden. Simple and beautiful and full, including Herschel's hostas, which I gave to her many years ago and she transferred from her old house. I spent a few hours yesterday, mother's day, with her. We sat on her deck, drank coffee, looked at the garden, watched the birds fight over position on the feeders and talked. She talked about growing up in England during the war. She told me about the family rabbit, Frisky. One day she came home from school and Frisky was gone. Rabbit stew sat on the table. Nobody ate. The next day, a night and day of hunger erasing the memory of Frisky, they ate. I think I'll get her a backyard rabbit for mother's day next year. Oh, and she was looking at my shoulder. I think I just realized how tall I am. CB-72, ~f/146, Impossible Project PX 70 Color Protection, 20 seconds Instant Year - Impossible Project 365 Collection: Flickr | Blogger | Tumblr http://flic.kr/p/eiVQuu

Take a Moment

Nashville, Tennessee How perfect is it to find a chair surrounded by greenery with a backdrop that's gonna go near white with a long exposure and to seize that perfectness by throwing down an open pinhole to capture a ghost sitting in a chair surrounded by greenery? It's pretty damn perfect, I tell ya. CB-72, ~f/146, Impossible Project PX 70 Color Protection, 20 seconds Instant Year - Impossible Project 365 Collection: Flickr | Blogger | Tumblr http://flic.kr/p/eiVQtN

I'm Shallow Like That

Nashville, Tennessee When this perfect arc across my backyard, doubled at times, first appeared I ran to grab my pinhole and fired a couple of rushed shots. Because rainbows are fleeting, right? After the shots, I sat on the back porch and watched this fleeting moment stretch on and on. I realized I love living because I got to see this everlasting rainbow. I've realized before that I love living but this was a good reminder that my love for life is driven by beauty. I love beauty. I'm shallow that way. Life is fleeting, right? But beauty is everlasting. CB-72, ~f/146, Impossible Project PX 70 Color Protection, 4 seconds Instant Year - Impossible Project 365 Collection: Flickr | Blogger | Tumblr http://flic.kr/p/eiQ6XP

I Have No Hair For Flowers

I'm feeling mixed up. Shelby Park, Nashville TN Instant Year, May 8, 2013 (050/365) CB-72, ~f/146, Impossible Project PX 70 Color Protection, 8 seconds Instant Year - Impossible Project 365 Collection: Flickr | Blogger | Tumblr http://flic.kr/p/ehNuQa