Coombs Colour
All the textiles for sale in Coombs are brightly coloured.
Perhaps it was my mood, but I could find nothing to buy, except a coffee and muffin.
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Blue Cab
It can take a while to get around by taxicab in Coombs, which is probably why there are so many parking lots for self-delivered visitors.
This one has very nice lines, especially from the back and stripped of bumpers and decals and so on.
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Two Polaroid Lessons Learned
This is my second post on the 52 Rolls project about the trials and tribulations of learning to shoot with Polaroid technology.
This post follows from the one I did about the Polaroid Land 100 camera here.
Second Image, print, as scanned
These two Polaroids stand as my roll number two. They are the first two Polaroids that I have taken (at least in living memory) and rife with “teaching moments”. Not only did I mess up one of the shots, I then committed a major newbie mistake. Just to complicate things I decided to recover the negatives and messed up those attempts in very basic ways. However, there is opportunity in this mess and so I decided to explore those possibilities too. This post is about the mistakes and some lessons learned, I will do another post sometime, when I have made some more pictures, hopefully with few mistakes.
I recently bought a Polaroid Land 100 with the idea of using it on 52 Rolls. I wrote about cleaning it up and modifying the battery holder to take AAAs here if you are interested in the camera technical side of things…
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Self in the Pink
Whatever prompted a Coombs merchant/artist to paint this tunnel in such pink I doubt I will ever know.
It does allow for a self-portrait in the pink when the light is right.
Which really is not sufficient justification for its existence.
There are so many things that could be said, most of them best left for the pictures to say.
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Granite Bubble
More from Coombs in the fall.
This large polished granite sphere is part of a sculpture, though I can’t decide whether it is a bubble, or an eclipsed sun.
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Unfinished
In the late fall I passed through Coombs (on Vancouver Island about 150 km north of Victoria).
I stopped to take pictures as it has some extravagant statues and brightly coloured stores and installations (for want of a better word).
The place is designed for people like me, passing through with cameras – very touristy, but it was the off-season and no one else was there.
Funny that this should be my favourite image, taken on the side of a building that probably is not quite finished, and has been that way for a few years.
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Polaroid Land Camera 100 Automatic
I have reconditioned this Polaroid camera to use it on the 52 Rolls Project – I bought it just before the New Year, part of a successful mining of local thrift stores that turned up 5 cameras. The Land Camera Automatic 100 was introduced by Polaroid in 1963 (produced until 1966) as the first fully automatic instant pack film camera; instant roll-film cameras had been produced by Polaroid starting in the 1940s but they seem to have had more of a commercial use (source and source).
All outward signs promised that this camera would work once I got some batteries into it, though it had not been modified to hold a modern battery. Indications of working order included it being loaded with film and coming with a spare pack (both are Fuji FP-100C, expired in October 2014), as well as having a set of three 1.5 volt watch-style batteries taped into it instead of an original 4.5 volt battery. The battery compartment and contacts were quite clean – they looked as if they had been cleaned up a bit after a minor battery leak in the past.
See below the jump for an illustrated description of the battery mod, and first test Polaroid photograph, for what the latter is worth.
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