wood camera (iPhone app) # 6-7 ~ escape from New York

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potting stuff / wood camera app ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
potting stuff / viewmatic app ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur. ~ Brassai
As I continue to play with various camera and developer effects apps for the iPhone, it has occurred to me that, sooner rather than later, there will be a considerable number of iPhone derived pictures culled from which a book will emerge.
That book, in keeping with my picture making life long belief that Polaroid prints are little joys and should be seen as such, will be a small format book. And as I make display prints, those too will be kept small. All because, to my eye and sensibilities, the small thing seems to create a visual impression which I can only describe as "precious".
And speaking of small, it has come to my attention that Polaroid (the real Polaroid) offers a digital instant print printer, the Polaroid ZIP Instant Mobile Printer. The printer fits in the palm of your hand and it spits out, directly from a mobile phone or table, little 2×3" prints with a smudge-proof protective polymer overcoat (and a sticky back for extra fun!!!).
And, just like the original Polaroid film, the paper, ZINK (zero ink), has the heat activated color dye crystals embedded in the paper. No inks to replace is a most definite plus. The paper is available in 10 sheet packs at the modest cost of $.50 a sheet.
Needless to write, my wanter is in overdrive and I just might have one of these printers by this time tomorrow.
Top 2 pictures are Polamatic Polaroids - very early morning light (had to get up to pee - one of the "advantages", picture making wise, of getting older) and Chicken and Shrimp Teriyaki, haute cuisine style.
Bottom 2 are Wood Camera (app) pictures - using the nearly infinitely variable lens tilt adjustment - and should be self-explanatory.Mark Hobson - Physically, Emotionally and Intellectually Engaged Since 1947