I turn to my Hermes typewriter for a Polaroid project
This typewriter is planted on a white table in my living room.
It sits silently most days, but lumbers to life when inspiration strikes.
Tag: Photography
Photos: #WHPlookingup
Every Friday, Instagram rolls out a Weekend Hashtag Project to give photographers a theme to shoot for over the weekend.
And despite the lingering bad taste in my mouth after Instagram’s botched Terms of Service update a few weeks ago, I still have fun participating.
This past weekend – just before a chilly morning run around Tempe Town Lake – I posted a couple photos for the Weekend Hashtag Project Looking Up (#WHPlookingup) theme.
Creepy reminder from Instagram
The filters and effects drew me in. The user interface and design wowed me. But the community and the creativity keep me coming back every day.
I check Facebook and Twitter for the news, but I go to Instagram for fun.
My feed seems cleaner and more interesting, with much less of the stuff that I routinely tune out (like ads, promos and app activity). Granted I am following less people on Instagram, but most of them seem to put some thought and care into their photos (although food and cat pics are inevitable on any platform, not that there’s anything wrong with that).
I also enjoy Instagram’s weekend hashtag projects. A few weeks ago, I had fun posting entries to the motel-themed project, and found myself thinking very highly of Instagram and felt appreciative for the creative outlet.
Roid Week 2012
Roid Week 2012: Not a festival of performance-enhancing drugs or a promotion for Preparation H.
It’s an annual celebration of Polaroid photography. Every day, from August 13-17, Polaroid enthusiasts from all over are asked to post their two best new photos on the ‘Roid Week 2012 Flickr group.
I discovered Roid Week on the Sunday before it kicked off. Fortunately, I’d recently picked up a Polaroid OneStep camera and some SX70 film from The Impossible Project (the only place still producing Polaroid film), so the timing was perfect.
Haboob horizon
Ah, summertime in the desert.
Cars double as ovens. Pools turn into luke-warm bathtubs. Air conditioning is essential, like water, food and the pursuit of happiness. Along with highs in the 116s (and lows in the 100s), we’re also blessed with the occasional haboob.
They usually pop out of nowhere in the late-afternoon in the late-summer months. And when they do, Valley photographers salivate. Yesterday – Saturday, August 11 – was one such occasion. I’d been meaning to try for a nice panoramic, wall-of-dust shot sometime this summer and jumped at the opportunity when this one presented itself.