PX No.183

PX No.183 (CP No.78)
CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Polaroid 667 B&W ISO 3000 (expired: 2/2001)
DATE: 6/24/09
LOCATION: Just outside the Office National des Pensions in Mons, Belgium.

This is one of several shots showing a relationship of squares on the sidewalk at the intersection of Rue des Marcottes and Rue de Nimy in Mons while on a photo excursion with fellow photographer Patty Iniguez. These cool glass and steel squares are all over the town as part of the drainage system. This one shows 12 squares in a grid.

CROSSED WITH: PX No.203

LEFT: On 7/20/09 in the Green room of a wonderful art installation in Arsenale by Cildo Meireles titled "Pling Pling" The installation consists of 6 connected rooms of solid colors with a video screen in each one that slowly changes colors. During la Biennale di Venezia 2009 Venice, Italy.

PX No.203

PX No.203 (CP No.96)
CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Fuji FP100c Silk
DATE: 7/20/09
LOCATION: Arsenale, la Bienalle di Venezia, Italy.

This picture is a relationship of color planes in a wonderful art installation by Cildo Meireles titled "Pling Pling" The installation consists of 6 connected rooms of solid colors with a video screen in each one that slowly changes colors. A magnificent example of deDtijl and it helps express my thoughts on the theory that everything is defined by the elements around it.

This particular image is actually a double exposure. One vertical and one horizontal with the light trails of a person walking through the room.

CROSSED WITH: PX NO. 183

LEFT: On 7/28/09 on the grid of squares on the ground just outside the Office National des Pensions at the intersection of Rue des Marcottes and Rue de Nimy in Mons, Belgium.

PX No.130

PX No.130 (OX No.4)
CAMERA: Polaroid Spectra Onyx
FILM: Polaroid Spectra (expired)
DATE: 12/10/08
LOCATION: St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Florida

Linda and I had driven down to St. Petersburg for the day to see the History of Photography exhibit at SPMFA. They had some wonderful work there. I remember some very cool stereographic pictures. This shot shows the new wing of the museum by architect Yann Weymouth which was just opened to the public in March 2008.

LEFT: On 7/21/09 on the counter beside the newspapers near the stairway to the WC at Starbucks Coffee - Centralbahnplatz 14 - 4051 Basel, Switzerland.
We stopped here for about an hour during our long drive home to Mons, Belgium from la Biennale di Venezia 2009. They had free Wi-Fi! YAY! We hadn't had internet access since we left Belgium.

PX No.193

PX No.193 (SX No. 198)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (exp. 12/2008)
DATE: 7/19/09
LOCATION: Villa ai Tigli B&B in Venice, Italy.

We stayed at this great bed & breakfast on the mainland of Venice during our trip in July, 2009 for la Biennale art festival. There was a skylight in our 3rd floor room and at 11 am our first morning there was a perfect shadow cast from the handle of the window.

This image gives me the impression of a hatchway directly to the sky, which I suppose is actually the definition of what a skylight is. But this just seems a bit more dramatic somehow.

We were exhausted from our 21 hour drive from Belgium. Traffic was backed up in Switzerland as a long tunnel was being repaired and only allowing one way traffic to take turns. So after one CP shot at Redentore the night before - this was my 2nd shot on the Venice trip.

CROSSED WITH: PX No. 188 of a deStijl relationship showing a storefront.
LEFT: On 7/24/09 at the vacant shop on Rue de Bertaimont, Mons, Belgium.

PX No.188

PX No.188 (MIO No. 9)
CAMERA: Polaroid MIO
FILM: Fuji Instax Mini
DATE: 7/5/09
LOCATION: Rue de Bertaimont, Mons, Belgium.

Walking with my wife Linda to the Sunday street market in Mons, Belgium, I stopped at this closed-up storefront with a nice Bauhaus / deStijl type adornment on the front. Made this nice MIO shot of the circular windows and yellow grid

CROSSED WITH: PX No. 193
LEFT: On 7/19/09 at Villa ai Tigli B&B in Venice, Italy. On the back of the bed's headboard.

PX No.181

PX No.181 (SX No. 185)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 Film (expired)
DATE: 6/24/09
LOCATION: Rue d'Enghien, Mons, Belgium.

Walking around my town of Mons, Belgium with a photographer friend Patty Iniguez we came across this really cool house on Rue d'Enghien with so many cool things showing through the window. Masks, marionettes, dolls, a giant ship and more. Tried to make a few images showing the odd objects and the reflection of the street.



CROSSED WITH: PX No. 184
LEFT: On 6/29/09 at the top of the Atomium in Brussels.

PX No.184

PX No.184 (SX No. 192)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 779 Film (expired 3/2005)
DATE: 6/29/09
LOCATION: Atomium - Brussels

Visiting Brussels with my new friend Benoit Geets who runs a great coffee shop in Mons (la Livre de Café.) He gave me a introductory tour of his favorite city. First stop was the Atomium, an architectural marvel built for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair "Expo '58". Designed by André Waterkeyn, it is 102-metres (335 ft) tall, with nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. From Wikipedia.

This image looks up one of the "futuristic" staircase that connects two of the giant spheres.



CROSSED WITH: PX No. 181
LEFT: On 6/30/09 at the location on Rue 'dEnghien of the window sill where PX No.181 was photographed just off the Grand Place in Mons, Belgium near the Chi Chi's restaurant.