Instant Spring

Polaroid film is pretty expensive these days, around $20 a pack. Most of the film I use is anymore. Medium format hits the wallet at around $8 a pack, not including another $15 for processing and printing. No wonder why digital is so popular. I feel like in many ways we’re losing as much as we’re gaining. Sure, we can now create any image we desire, but what about the simple pleasure of holding your favorite instant photo in your hands moments after it’s been taken? I don’t want to scan and reproduce these, I just want to enjoy them. Are we sucking the pleasure out of photography?

Walking around outside on a beautiful and bright afternoon in Philadelphia. I love these buildings, they’re so much more than the stones, brick and glass that physically define them. I love these trees. I’ve never noticed how they seem to shoot up through every crack in the concrete before. Their fuzzy pink blossoms take me to my very own intoxicating poppy field.