St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields church sits adjacent to Trafalgar Square in London. This is a Polaroid photograph I took of it with a cheap SX-70 camera, then manipulated it with a wooden skewer to get the painterly effect. Photoshop didn’t have much to do with it, except for resizing.
For anyone who has been following my photography, it might come as a surprise to see these photos. I generally work in black and white, and almost never make any adjustments to those photos. To be completely honest, I don’t know what has driven me into trying this out. They are fun to do and very quick, which is an advantage since I’ve been far too busy lately to devote as much time to my black and white photographs as I would normally do. There is also an element of rebellion. Using an archaic (circa 1970s) $10 camera to do manipulations with a $0.01 piece of wood is oddly satisfying in this world where people buy $1,000 cameras and use $500 software to do the similar things. Doing these polaroid manipulations does stoke the creative fire, and I expect to be posting some more black and white stuff very soon.