POLAROIDS & PINS

It’s about lunch time here in Maryland and I have a bit of time before shooting my first girls field hockey game. I’ve shot a ton of different sports, but never this one so we’ll see how that goes. I purchased this vintage Polaroid Colorpack III that was brand new and still in the box for two bucks, a week or so back, at a small fair in rural Maryland and I’ve finally been able to put it to some use. The camera was originally marketed as one of the first color instant consumer cameras so there aren’t a lot of manual controls at all. The receipt was still folded neatly in the box when I opened it up. It was purchased locally in 1970 for about $50. Polaroid has since discontinued the production of their pack film so the film which used to be readily available (and fairly inexpensive) at local drug stores is now hard to find and sold at a premium. Who knows how long the availability will be for this type of film. With that in mind I am trying my best to take it with me on assignments (it’s plastic and pretty fragile) and am going to try to consciously look for places or people that lend themselves to this medium. This image shows a few of my first polaroids with the camera, pinned up in our newsroom photo department. The top is a field of dead corn in Marriottsville, Maryland and the bottom was taken in Centennial Park in Ellicott City, Maryland of a bride-to-be getting bridal portraits done.

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