I only found out about the A Moment In Time project about 10 minutes after it was supposed to happen, but I decided to take part anyway, partly because it would give me something good to take for 'Roid Week as well. So here's the view through my window on a rainy day. I love always having so much green when I look out. If I look up, I get the sky, and quite a lot of bird life. The swifts came back a few days ago, and it brings me a lot of pleasure just to watch them swoop around the eaves of an evening.
The quote at the top is a lyric from a song that happened to turn up on shuffle when I took the picture, a song called Making Music by Mohawk Lodge. I don't even like the song that much, but I do like that particular lyric, and it seemed very apropos of the moment.
Above is how the Polaroid actually looks. But if I let the scanner auto-correct, this is how it looks — which is a lot more like the real view. Polaroid is funny like that.
See other photos from A Moment In Time in this Flickr group.
One of the items on my Uberlist this year is to take more Polaroids (at least one a month), so I've uploaded a few more Polaroids for Roid Week, which I've added to my Polaroids photoset. Here are a some reminders of a good day out a couple of weekends ago:
First we went on a replica of Stephenson's Rocket (the black specks are coal smuts from the chimney):
There are couple more pictures here. (For a more detailed report, Caroline D wrote about her ride here).
Then we went off to see Speed of Light at the Bargehouse (which Diamond Geezer reviewed here). It was one of those things that kind of looked better in real life than in photos, but I took one for my 365hipstamatic project, anyway. (And there are some much better photos here.)
Then it was off to The Fleece Station for a fiesta to welcome new studio-mates Lauren and Ellen. It was the second time I'd visited, but I really must go back and see what the place is like on a normal day when it's not crammed full of drunk people! (Sarah posted write-up of the party here)
I was rather impressed with this cameratastic display, although apparently too drunk not to put my finger in front of the lens:
I'm actually looking forward to finishing off this Polaroid film, so I can buy some from the Impossible Project. Lots of the results are really gorgeous. If you haven't yet read this article on the Impossible Project, go do that now.
