#110b converted

instant this weekend. 

Each year since Bud was born it’s timed out that we’ve had to leave town for work, for a few months during the first part of the year.  And each time he’s returned a slightly different little person. He lived in New York from 3-6 months old, then again from 14-18 months. And today we returned from New Mexico to where he arrived just shy of 2 and a half and departed just shy of 2 and 8 months old. Each time we arrive home I take an instant photo of some variety in our bedroom. 

tonight at sundown. 

the black and white pola 4x5 is a basically botched attempt to do a long exposure on either side of midnight, wherever we might be at the time – in last night’s case, largely asleep. I didn’t manage to trigger the exposure until midnight o ‘clock and so you see the inadvertent light painting, which is my cell phone flash light on the bed used to focus in basically pitch black. You also see a faint image of me on the left taking a picture of my self with cell phone giving a thumbs up over sleeping wife and baby, who I then wake to wish hny, but which the exposure did not capture – because even it knows some things are better left off of social media. 

testing a “new” polaroid back on my (least) favorite subject. 

on the deck a bit ago. 

today. 

ray came by to shoot me so i shot him back.