juli and will...

Finally getting around to scanning a few more from the Joshua Tree trip. This was my last shot of Polaroid Chocolate film. Juli and Will are always fun to photograph and this was definitely worthy of the last shot...

a sense of belonging...

An afternoon in the Lavon lake bed (minus the water). The evening was approaching and the shutter was slow, but it's still an image with character. And it's my next to last shot of chocolate film. That being said, Tyler looks like he belongs in this scene and in this photo...

a Christmas image of Wilco...

finished out the day with some chocolate film...

halloween with Dr. Tyndell...

Spent Halloween 2013 with little Dr. Tyndell. No better way to celebrate than by pulling out the NIGO & Chocolate films...

photos of matt...

Matt Ronan came over to Greenville last night to get me to help him with a light leak that he had on his camera. Good news is we fixed the light leak so he can stop wasting exposures of his expired Polaroid 669. Tried to take a photo of him using one of my few remaining exposures of Polaroid Chocolate film. Unfortunately, that was sorta bad news because I overexposed another shot (see below). I mixed up my reading from my light meter (@80 ISO) and the exposure I was getting with my Fuji camera (@200 ISO). Basically I wasn't paying attention... ugh...

So after that, I still wanted a photo, but I didn't want to chance another chocolate exposure so I pulled out some of my most reliable stash: Polaroid 690. I bought all of this film over a year ago from Don's Photo Equipment in Dallas. The good thing is that more often than not, I hit the exposure on this film. Another one in the win column...

sherri...

One thing I know for sure.  I can never get enough photos of Sherri. Part of the reason is they are so rare. She is not a fan of having her photo taken. I think she felt sorry for me on Sunday and let me take this one. I second guessed my meter reading because it was sunny outside and I took her photo in the shade. Because of that, I felt like I needed to overexpose by one stop. Well as you can see, I should have trusted the meter. The next shot came out with a dry pod, so I decided to stop and use what I had. After letting it develop for a while, the image definitely became a keeper. Now if I can just teach her to take photos of me...

tyler...

This is my first image from a pack of expired Polaroid Chocolate film that was given to me by Steven Reeves of Makeshift Photography during a Dec 2012 Polawalk. Didn't really have a reason to pull it out of the refrigerator until today. This weekend is the weekend to pull out the last pack of Chocolate film and shoot away so that we can post the photos in the Flickr group "the last bite of chocolate (film)" on October 28th (National Chocolate Day).

Glad Tyler was available for an impromptu photo. Looking forward to some more portraits this weekend...