
This post is about some of my personal work. It’s much different then the work that I do for my families.
When I am photographing a family, it’s true that I am documenting something special. However I am meticulous in my ‘posing’, color correction, and finished product.
With my personal Polaroid work? Not as much.
I am still documenting something incredibly special (to me), but the finished product…is almost always a mystery.

I don’t ever truly know what my vision is going to look like on film. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I love doing this so much.
Sure I take into consideration the film temperature, before/during & after shooting. I pay attention to development time and light.
But what I see in my head and what comes out are sometimes drastically different. Sometimes I had unevenly spread emulsion, or a weird orange cast to my photos.
But at the end of the day, it’s incredibly hard for me to part with these images. I recently was fortunate enough to partake in the craft show Craftin’ Outlaws.
So, I had to frame my babies and sell them.

Many people asked me at the show, did you actually take these? Yes…yes I did.
I can tell you where it was taken, how cold/hot it was outside & where I was illegally parked to get the shot.
I think that is another reason I love these so much. You can’t right click on my Polaroid and “get info.”
It’s not geotagged, and doesn’t contain any metadata.

There’s no Instagram filter, no {command + Z} function if you screw up.
My camera collection has been steadily growing for the past few years.
I started off with my 600 film camera, and have added a Big Swinger, Sx-70, etc.

It really doesn’t get any better than this for me. Each image is packed full of emotion for me. All I can hope is that it may resonate with others as well.

xoxo