Picturecrossing: The Blog

PX No.545

2012-01-16T09:42:00.001-05:00

PX No.545, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

Picturecrossing No.545 (EE No.30)
The streets of the Ridgecreek condominiums after the fierce ice storm in Clarkston, Georgia.
These old pack films do NOT like the cold weather but it gave a very salmon-pink tint to it.

CAMERA: Polaroid EE 100
FILM: Polaroid / Impossible Project - Chocolate 100 (expired 10/2009)
DATE: 1/11/2011

LEFT: PX No.545 Was left in Florence, Italy on 12/31/11 just outside the main exit to the Santa Croce cathedral.

PX No.385

2011-09-19T04:56:00.001-04:00

PX No.385, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
picturecrossing No. 385 (SX No.342) shot of spray paint caps at a vendor's stall in the Waterlooplein Fleamarket in Amsterdam.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired 10/2009)
DATE:2/20/2010

LEFT: on Graffiti Street in Ghent, Belgium on 9/5/2011 (see photo below)

see where it was left in Ghent:

FOUND! "Hey!
I have found you Polaroid Nr 385 in the Graffiti street in Gent, Belgium this evening.
always pass by when I come back from my work!

I am a graffiti writer and photographer! You can see a part of my work on this page!
www.facebook.com/pages/Cypress-Photo/211445575548701

Your made my day!!!!!! Keep up the good work!
Many greetings from Gent
Kristof De Veirman"

PX No.428

2011-09-12T15:48:00.001-04:00

PX No.428, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

picturecrossing No.428 (SX No.394)
Relationship with white polka-dots and yOuKfOu Zombie at the Tate Museum of Modern Art in London, England. This is on a staircase just outside the main exit. (see photo below.)

(though you can't tell, the 4th dot from the left is actually a piece of artwork by yOuKfOu that I posted for him while I was visiting the Tate. It is similar to THIS ONE.)

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expires 5/2009)
DATE SHOT: 5/1/2010

LEFT: PX No.428 was left 8/28/11 on a door outside the darkroom on the third floor of House 6 at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. (see below.)

FOUND: PX No.428 was found by Ruairí Kell
"Dear Lance,
I have found one of your photos, photo number 428. To tell you the story, I was in college (Trinity College Dublin), and was cleaning up the room for the Christian Union society, a society of which I am a committee member. I took out some dirty mugs to wash them in the sink down the end of the hall. As I was washing them, I turned and saw your photo attached to the door. I went over to see what it was, and found it extremely interesting. I would love to know more about this photo if that's at all possible.
Much thanks, -- Ruairí Kell" (9/9/10)

see where it was left in Dublin:

PX No.472

2011-09-06T21:07:00.001-04:00

PX No.472, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

PX No.475 (FX No.91)
Shot of the Doudou (Ducasse de Mons) procession in Mons, Belgium. These are the kids from the Petit Doudou carrying the little dragon. This is a festval that has been going on in my village for more than 650 years!!! There is a procession of religious relics throughout the town accompanied by hundreds of people from many different churches and organizations. After which there is a dramatic exhibition where a man on horseback representing Saint George, slays a huge dragon model carried by several other men. It is an amazing world heritage event that is much more exciting than it sounds and attracts tens of thousands of people. Find out more about it here: (Ducasse de Mons)
and see many photos I have taken of the event here:
www.flickr.com/search/?w=24910458@N07&q=doudou

CAMERA: Fuji Instax 500AF
FILM: Fuji Instax Wide
DATE: 5/30/10

LEFT: This picture was left on 6/19/11 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. I left it on the 7th floor outside the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit while I was there caring for my mother after her surgery. I left this picture on the same day of the Doudou 2011.

FOUND: By Peter Durel - "I Found No # 472 at Grady Hospital, Georgia,USA ( 7th flr.) June 27th 2011. Thought it was one of those hate ads since they looked like KuKluxKlans. I was ready to rip it,but decided to view it further and check your site instead. Still don't know who or what they are, but pretty sure not KKK's. Can you tell me something about the picture? It's interesting that they seem like they are holding a big green umbrella."
(I wrote him back to tell him all about it.)

See where it was left in Atlanta, Georgia - USA:

PX No.499

2011-09-06T19:51:00.001-04:00

PX No.499 - "Raggedy Zirkus", a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

PX No.499 (OC No.12)
Cindya & Neil from Raggedy Zirkus during a photo shoot for their first CD.
This photo was scanned on June 9, 2011 - ten months after it was shot.

CAMERA:Polaroid One Step Close-Up
FILM:Impossible Project PX 600 Silver Shade (19/04/2010)
DATE:8/5/10

LEFT: This picture was left on 8/25/11 at the Hard Rock Café in the Temple Bar district of Dublin, Ireland.

FOUND:even though nobody has contacted me about this picture, I did see a Hard Rock employee take the picture down from the wall before I left the building.

See where it was left at the Hard Rock Café in Dublin, Ireland:

PX No.415

2011-09-02T21:53:00.001-04:00

PX No.415, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

PX No.415 (SX No.373)
This was shot upstairs at The Charles Rennie Macintosh Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired 2/2008)
DATE: 4/4/2010

LEFT: PX No.415 was left on a drain pipe just outside the Chester Beatty Library / Museum in Dublin Ireland on 8/27/2011. Click the photo below to see where it was left...

PX No.390

2011-07-08T18:29:00.001-04:00

PX No.390, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

picturecrossing No.390
Shot looking across the canal from the flower market on Singel in Amsterdam on 2/20/10.

CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Polaroid 669 (expired 2/1999)
DATE: 2/20/2010

LEFT: This picture from Amsterdam was left on the 4th of July, 2011 on a wall at "Kloud 9," a head shop on Euclid Avenue near the intersection of Moreland Avenue NE in Little Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Click the photo below to see where it was left...

See where it was left in Atlanta, Georgia:

PX No.493

2011-06-05T20:13:00.001-04:00

PX No.493, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

PX No.493 (CP No.309)
Circular, portal-type window on a building in Maubeuge, France.

FILM: Polaroid 125i (expired)
CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II (c.1970)
DATE SHOT: 6/29/2010
Scanned on HP ScanJet G4050

LEFT: on 6/5/11 on a wall between galleries at the "Musée de la Photographie" in Charleroi, Belgium.

- Click the photo below to see where it was left in Charleroi:

PX No.498

2011-06-05T19:09:00.001-04:00

PX No.498, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

PX No.498 (FSX No.129)
deStijl drawing on misfired shot.

FILM: Impossible Project PX 100 Silver Shade First Flush (box #43 15032010)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Model 2 Freitag 1st White Edition
DATE SHOT: 8/5/2010
Scanned on HP ScanJet G4050

LEFT: on 5/22/11 in Amsterdam at 197 Warmondstraat in front of a small gallery "Kunsthuis Mooi voor Thuis."

- Click the photo below to see where it was left in Amsterdam:

PX No.462

2011-06-05T19:07:00.001-04:00

PX No.462, a photo by LANCEPHOTO on Flickr.

PX No.462 (FSX No.120)
Urban composition - Paris.

FILM: Impossible Project PX 100 Silver Shade First Flush (box #43 15032010)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Model 2 Freitag 1st White Edition
DATE SHOT: 5/16/2010
Scanned on HP ScanJet G4050

LEFT: in Gouda, The Netherlands, on 4/23/11 on an entry light post among the parked bicycles on the Kleiweg pedestrian mall near the Kleiwegplein bridge. While I was photographing the spot where I left it, two men walked right up to the post and had a conversation there without even noticing it or me taking pictures of it. - Click the photo below to see where it was left in Gouda, Nederland:

PX No.136

2011-03-26T18:34:00.001-04:00

PX No.136
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

picturecrossing No.136 (SX No.162)
urban deStijl relationship with electrical box, pipes and vent outside BayWalk in St. Petersburg, Florida.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 779 (expired 2005)
DATE SHOT: 12/31/2008

CLICK HERE to see my Google Map of where this picture was shot.

LEFT: picturecrossing No.136 was left on 12/2/2010 on a small metal door in the wall along Józefa in Kazimierz - Krakow, Poland.
Click this picture to see where I left it.

or CLICK HERE to see my Google Map of where it was left.

FOUND! :
"Hi i'm Coralie, french girl but i live in Berlin and i was travelling in Krakow abnd ihave found your photo in december 2010. It's the photo n°136 and she was in Kazimierz in Krakow.
Your project is super. I love it !
Can you give more informations about this photos please ? Do you made more polaroid in Berlin ?
one more time, your project is very fine :)
Bye and " liebe Grüsse aus Berlin"
Coralie"

PX No.484

2011-03-12T15:35:00.001-05:00

PX No.484
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

picturecrossing No.484 (CP No.300)

A skyscraper in Downtown Tampa, Florida as seen over the Hillsborough River from the University of Tampa campus.
CLICK HERE to see a Google Map of where this was shot.

CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Polaroid 689 (expired 12/2003)
DATE: 6/16/10

LEFT: In Paris on 2/21/11 in the Belleville Metro Station between two wall maps.
See where it was left:

FOUND: By Clémence Pène on the same day it was left:
"Hey Lance, I found n°484 at metro Belleville yesterday and loved it, but left it on the wall for other people..."

PX No.469

2011-03-12T06:39:00.001-05:00

PX No.469
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

PX No.469 (MP NO.15)

This is a diptych showing a cool door of street art stickers (including a yOuKfOu Labeauratoire fish that I posted) just off the Grand Place in Brussels. The left frame is blank due to operator error.
I drew a seeping deStijl-ish design on it.
Click Here to see a Google Map of where it was shot.

CAMERA: Polaroid MiniPortrait Model 203
FILM: Polaroid 667 ISO 3000 (expired 2003)
DATE: 5/22/10

LEFT: This picture was left on 12/31/10 in Berlin on a derelict building which was covered in street art stickers and ad posters, along Augustraße across the street from the K-W Institute.
see where it was left:

FOUND: (two months later) - 2/20/11
"Hi, My name is David & I found the 469 one in Berlin last Sunday (near the KW).
I live in Paris. Your concept is excellent_carry on
Bye"

PX No.487

2011-01-24T00:18:00.001-05:00

PX No.487
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

PX No.487 (CP No.305) A line of palm trees on the northern shore of the island at Howard Park beach in Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA.

CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Polaroid 689 (expired 12/2003)
DATE: 6/17/10

LEFT: This picture was left in a food court at JFK Airport in New York on 1/5/11, just above a thermostat near the trash cans.
FOUND: While no one has contacted me as of yet, I did see a young woman look at the picture and take it about 20 minutes after I left it. I even snapped a photo of her looking at it from across the dining room.

see where it was left in New York:

PX No.182

2010-12-21T21:33:00.001-05:00

PX No.182
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

PX No.182
Tree limbs grow around a red iron fence in Mons.
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: 779 film (expired 3/2005)
DATE: 6/24/09

LEFT: on 12/2/2010 in Krakow, Poland in a yellow phone booth near a bus stop along Krakowska near the intersection of Beera Meiselsa. (left to cross with a photo shot here.)

See where it was left in Krakow:

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PX No.458

2010-12-21T21:13:00.001-05:00

PX No.458
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

picturecrossing No.458
deStijl relationship with silver reflection.
I waited quite a while for a person to walk by so I could get a figure in the reflection.
Shot in Paris on 5/15/10 near Forum des Halles.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Model 2 Freitag 1st White Edition
FILM: Polaroid Artistic TZ (expired 9/2009)
DATE: 5/15/2010
SCANNER: HP ScanJet G4050

LEFT on 12/2/2010 in the pedestrian walkway along Krakowska in the Kazimierz neighborhood of Krakow, Poland. Just in front of Cukiernia Pod Arkadami.

see where it was left in Krakow:

PX No.126

2010-11-15T19:48:00.001-05:00

PX No.126
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

PX No.126 (SX No.125)
Figure in blue and white walks down the escalator at the Downtown Campus of Miami Dade College.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600
DATE: 10/13/08

This picture was left in Paris, France on 10/24/09 at the Libraire Galignani, the first English bookshop established on the continent of Europe. Since 1520. - 224 Rue de Rivoli.

See where it was left:

PX No.104

2010-11-15T07:11:00.001-05:00

PX No.104
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

picturecrossing No.104 (CP No.43)

These geometrical bricks were broken and laying next to this abandoned insurance building off US 19 in Hudson, Florida. This is one of the rare instances where I actually altered the scene before shooting it. I placed the bricks on top of the parking block to make this composition.

CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Polaroid Polacolor 100 (expired 4/2000)
DATE: 7/9/08

LEFT: This picture was left at The Louvre Museum in Paris, France on 10/24/09 just beside the ancient Greek statue of Aphrodite "Venus di Milo" (see photo below)

see where it was left:

PX No.409

2010-11-08T10:17:00.001-05:00

PX No.409
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

picturecrossing No. 409 (SX No.362)
One of the very imposing columns looking down on you at the entrance of the building at 146 Argyle Street in Glasgow, Scotland.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 779 (expired 7/2009)
("Share the Love" 2nd edition from PolaPremium / Impossible Project)
DATE: 4/2/2010

LEFT: on 11/6/2010 at an IKEA store in Wilrijk near Antwerp, Belgium. Posted just above a bed in the bedroom section among the other displays.

see where it was left:

PX No.387

2010-11-04T22:03:00.001-04:00

PX No.387
Originally uploaded by LANCEPHOTO

picturecrossing No.387 (SX No.344) A fireboat on a canal in Amsterdam near Jodenbreestraat. The Zuiderkurk is seen in the distance. Interesting greenish haze from the expired film.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired 10/2009)
DATE: 2/20/2010

LEFT: on 6/14/10 on a light post just in front of the Saint Leo Abbey chapel on the campus of Saint Leo University, in Saint Leo, Florida while visiting there with my mother who likes to buy grapefruit from their orchard.
Click the photo below to see where it was left.
see where it was left:

FOUND: 7/16/10 (one month later) ------------------
"Hello. I found your picturecrossing photo #387 on a lamp post just outside the Saint Leo Abbey Church in Saint Leo, FL. (I) frequently walk down that path. In fact, I had walked past your photo quite a few times and hardly paid attention to it, just assuming it was some type of notice or paperwork for the plant operations department. Yesterday, my curiosity finally got the best of me and I decided to check it out. What a nice surprise it was to find an interesting photo instead of a boring notice! Will you please let me know where the photo was taken and if its location was 'crossed' with a photo of the Saint Leo campus?
Thanks! - Christina"

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PX No.389 "Rembrandt vs Magritte"

2010-11-03T21:07:00.001-04:00

PX No.389 "Rembrandt vs Magritte"
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

picturecrossing No.389 (CP No.218)
Statue of Rembrandt in Rembrandtplien, Amsterdam, Nederland.

CAMERA: Polaroid Colorpack II
FILM: Polaroid 669 (expired 2/1999)
DATE: 2/20/10

LEFT: This picture was left in Brussels, Belgium on 5/22/10 in the postcard rack of the Magritte Museum Gift Shop.

See where it was left:

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PX No.439

2010-11-01T22:13:00.001-04:00

PX No.439
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

picturecrossing No.439 (X No.2)
This photograph is a test shot using the custom-made PolaCity Paris Model Pronto SX-70. It was shot from my balcony in Mons, Belgium showing the courtyard next door on 4/27/10.
These pictures with an "X" number are rare among my images and denote that they were taken with a camera I was only experimenting with. I also drew a deStijl design on this one in black and red forming a relationship with the architectural elements in the photograph.

CAMERA: Polaroid Pronto SX-70 / Labaeauratoire PolaCity Paris Edition
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired)
DATE: 4/27/10

LEFT: this picture was left in Antwerp, Belgium on 8/28/10, on the Wandelterraszuid (a scenic boardwalk) along the Schelde river near Steenplein. (click the photo below to find out more about where it was left.

FOUND! : Mid September 2010
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"Hola,
I found picture 439 in Antwerp... on the walking terrace near the river “Schelde” and near the monument “Steen”.I found it the second week of september. I no remember the day exactly.
Greetings, Anne Floren
Antwerpen"
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see where it was left:

here is the camera it was photographed with:

and here is a short video of people ignoring my artwork:

PX No.422

2010-11-01T21:13:00.001-04:00

PX No.422
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

picturecrossing No. 422 (MP No.4) Portraits of Fréderic Buchet at his home in Baudour.
These were test shots with the small flash I attached to the MiniPortrait Model 203.
Drew on it later with markers.

CAMERA: Polaroid MiniPortrait Model 203
FILM: Polaroid 690 (expired 2008)
DATE: 4/21/2010

LEFT: This picture was left in Brussels, Belgium on 8/16/10, on a graffiti wall at the intersection of ReebokStraat and Place du Jeu de Balle near the big fleamarket there.
Click the photo below to see where & when this picture was left in Brussels:

PX No.441

2010-10-19T21:43:00.001-04:00

PX No.441
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.441 (SX No.405)
deStijl relationship with 2 red lines and sewer grate.
This image was shot along the Albert Embankment across from Black Prince Road in London, England on 5/3/2010.
You can see the location here on my Picturecrossing Google Map.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 779 (Share the Love) expired 6/2009

This picture was LEFT on a Diesel Jeans ad poster along Via Cavour near Via di S.Francesco di Paola in Rome, Italy on 10/10/2010. Click the photo below to see where.

PX No.442

2010-10-15T20:15:00.002-04:00

PX No.442
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.442 (TAZ No.16)
This shot of a troupe of performers in face paint was shot in the Grand Place of Mons, Belgium on 5/9/10.

You can see this location here on my Picturecrossing Google Map.

CAMERA: Polaroid Tasmanian Devil Camera
FILM: Polaroid 600 expired

PX No. 442 was left in Rome, Italy on 10/9/10, at the intersection of Via Urbana and Piazza Della Suburra at #43a, just across from the exit to the Cavour Metro Station, under a sign for a Photo Lab.
Click here to see where it was left :

and you can click here to see a video of people (mostly) ignoring my artwork:

PX No.456 "MORE"

2010-10-14T22:22:00.001-04:00

PX No.456 "MORE"
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.456 "MORE"
This cross with the word "more" scratched into it was seen as part of the architectural structure of the modern glass buildings on Passage Mondétour near Chåtelet les Halles in the 2nd arrondissement. Paris, France. 5/15/10.
You can see the location here on my Google Map.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Model 2 Freitag 1st White Edition
FILM: Polaroid 600

This picture was left on 10/8/2010 just at the foot of the statue of St. Peter Enthroned inside St. Peter's Cathedral of The Vatican in Rome.

Click this photo to see where it was left:

PX No.417

2010-09-07T14:15:00.001-04:00

PX No.417
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.417 (SX No. 376)
deStijl Relationship with stained glass at GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art) in Glasgow Scotland on April 4, 2010.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 expired 2/2008

LEFT: This picture was left in the "Vlaeykensgang" alleway in Antwerp, Belgium on 8/28/2010.
(See photo below for more info on where it was left)

Click this photo to see where this picture was left:

FOUND! - This picture was found on 9/6/2010, 9 days after it was left, by a great Belgian photographer shooting in the area.
"Just found the Polaroid you had left at the 'Vlaeykensgang' in Antwerp! It'll look great on my wall! - Cheers, Jesse (www.jessewillems.be)"

PX No.419

2010-08-18T18:52:00.001-04:00

PX No.419
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.419 (SX No379)

This picture was NOT taken in the Grand Place of Brussels, Belgium...
It is, however in Brussels - at "Mini-Europe" where they have scaled-down models of many historic buildings in the EU including this representation of the Flower Carpet / Tapis de Fleurs / Bloementapijt - currently held every other year in Brussels', Grand Place.

I did take it to the Grand Place this year for the semi-annual Flower Carpet and left it there during my visit on 8/15/10.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired 5/2009)
DATE: 4/18/10

LEFT: On the fence around the Flower Carpet in the Grand Place, Brussels Belgium. 8/15/10
See where it was left:

PX No.179

2010-05-31T05:55:00.001-04:00

PX No.179
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.179 (SX No.179)
Four colors of large posts marking the Belgian railway. This was shot just outside the central station in Brussels.
(see map.)

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired)
DATE: Shot on 6/6/09 - drawn on 4/2010
LEFT: 5/1/10 at the Tate Modern in London (see below)

Here is where it was left:

LEFT: 5/1/10 at the Tate Modern in London in a room of the van Doesburg exhibit near some works by Walmar Schwab.
About 3 minutes after I left this one, I actually watched a museum employee take the photo, look at it, then walk away with it...

And here's what it looked like before I drew on it:

PX No.399

2010-05-31T05:43:00.002-04:00

PX No.399
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.399 (SLR No.81)

CAMERA: SX-70 SLR 680 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired 9/2009)
DATE: 3/24/10
LOCATION: a friend's home in Braine-le-comte, Belgium.

LEFT: PX No.399 was left 5/22/10 in the women's bathroom here at L'Express‎, a Lebanese restaurant in Brussels, Belgium. (Rue des Chapeliers 8)

FOUND! 5/30/10 by Ana (see below)

See where it was left:

FOUND! 5/30/10 by Ana who writes:
"Hi!
I've found one of your pictures in the toilet of a Lebanese resto, close to Grand Place! :p I don't really remember the number (I had nothing to note it down at the time :p), but I think it was 329.... It was the picture of either a bungalow or a cottage.

I left it there. Hope someone else also finds it and plays the game.

I'm a book crosser myself, and I also used to participate in postcard crossing. So I've found your project really interesting. Hope it's giving you feedback and that it helps your artistic carrer.
...
It was a great place to "hide" it. I just saw it yesterday, so it must still be there! :D

Good luck
Ana"

PX No.395

2010-05-18T20:51:00.002-04:00

PX No.395 (after)
Originally uploaded by L.Å.R.

PX No.395 (SX No.352)
deStijl relationship with green door and reflected tree.
Shot at a building just outside the Brugge train station that was under construction. I think it became a bookstore?
Then I drew a deStijl design on it with markers while in Paris on 5/14/10.

CAMERA: SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 expired 10/2009
DATE: 3/9/10

LEFT on 5/15/10 at an exhibition at the Pompidou Center National Museum of Modern Art (Centre Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne) in a room between some Kandinsky paintings and some Picasso Paintings. (see below)

Click Here to see where it was left:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancephoto/4618872403

And here is what it looked like before my drawing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancephoto/4618872609/

PX No.255

2010-03-03T08:18:00.001-05:00

PX No.255
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No. 255 (MIO No.29)
The Atomium in Brussels, Belgium.

CAMERA: Polaroid Mio
FILM: Fuji Instax Mini (2011)
DATE: 9/14/09

LEFT: on 12/29/09 on the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy.
To be CROSSED With: PX No.363

click here to see where it was left:

PX No.53

2010-03-01T09:51:00.003-05:00

PX No.53
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.53 (FX No.42)
Was shot at an abandoned auto parts store on US Hwy.19 in Hudson, Florida across from Beach Boulevard. I love these lines and shot several photos of them. You can click the photo above to see the Flickr map of where it was taken.

CAMERA: Fuji Instax 500 AF
FILM: FujiFilm Instax Wide Format
DATE: 5/8/08

This picture was LEFT on 1/1/10 in a little cubby of a brick building in the Dorsoduro section of Venice, Italy near the Calle Drio al Magazeni.

Click this photo to see where it was left and a locator map:

PX No.334

2010-01-23T20:45:00.001-05:00

PX No.334
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.334 (SLR No.48)
Bauhaus relationship with red, gold, black & white.

The double doors in the warm "recovery" room / café at the Brugge Snow & Ice Sculpture Festival 2009.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 SLR 680SE
FILM: Polaroid 779 (expired 6/2009)
"Share the Love 1" from PolaPremium.
DATE: 12/5/2009

LEFT: in the Waterloo Shopping Center near Passage Wellington on 1/23/10.
For more info, click the photo below.

PX No.337

2010-01-08T09:25:00.001-05:00

PX No.337
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.337 (EZ No.74)
This is another blank frame from my blue Electric Zip camera. I was pretty annoyed when these cameras kept giving me about one blank shot almost every pack, especially with film like this Polaroid 84 which cost me about $25 per pack of 10 shots. But ever since I started drawing on my blank shots (and now on some of the good shots) I'm actually a little excited when I get a blank one. This was (surprisingly) my first deStijl drawing on a Polaroid, using metallic markers of silver and gold. The original shot was supposed to be of an Art Nouveau building in Maubeuge, France (see SLR No.53 and EZ No.75). After it misfired and gave me a blank frame, I drew on it while sitting at the café in Leonida's Chocolate shop in Mons, Belgium on 12/23/09.

CAMERA: Polaroid Electric Zip (blue) c.1976
FILM: Polaroid 84 B&W ISO 100 (expired 1/2007)
DATE SHOT: 12/11/09
DATE DRAWN: 12/23/09

LEFT: next to a Mondrian Painting (Composition No.1 with Grey and Red 1938) at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy on 12/28/09. Click the image below to see where it was left.

FOUND!!! on 12/29/09
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Hi Lance

I have found your polaroid on my desk in my office…such a weird thing...I have asked around but nobody knew nothing about this picture and the way it came into my office.

I work as registrar here at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection by the way…maybe a visitor has found it in the garden and given it to a guardian that has brought it in my office…he might have thought the photo could be of my interest….I don’t know.
Tell me about the story of this polaroid (no.337). Ok?
Thank you
Marco
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Click this picture to see exactly where it was left:

PX No.339

2010-01-06T20:47:00.005-05:00

PX No.339
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.339 (SLR No.54)
A very cool little chapel at the intersection of Route de Villers and Route de Mons in Bettignies, France.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 SLR 680SE
with reversed telephoto attachment lens for "fisheye" effect
FILM: Polaroid 779 expired-6/2009
(Share the Love I from PolaPremium)
DATE: 12/11/09

LEFT: on 1/1/2010
in Venice, Italy just under a Shepard Fairey painting of the Obey Giant in a parking lot near the Magazzini Ligabue in Dorsoduro.
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See Where it was left:

FOUND! on the same day: 1/1/10
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"Hi !
I'm Benjamin, i'm an Architecture student, and i live in Venice.
Yesterday , the 01/01/10 i have found one of your photos , the N° 339 under the Obey the giant big red face, near the Magazzini Ligabue, here in Venice.
It was really good! a sort of treasure.
Go on ! Best wishes.
Bye bye , Ben"
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PX No.282

2009-11-21T09:22:00.001-05:00

PX No.282
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.282
Signs to Paris, France at a rest stop on the A1.

CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha I SE
FILM: Polaroid "Mystical" 700 from Unsaleable expired 2/2009
DATE: 10/24/09
LEFT: on 11/17/09 on a directional sign along the N261 out of Brussels at the intersection of Langestraat.
Click the image below to see the map.

See where it was left:

PX No.202

2009-11-20T20:23:00.001-05:00

PX No.202
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No. 202
(EZ No.18)
Camera: Polaroid Electric Zip (Red)
Film: Polaroid 88 (Expired 10/2005)
Shot on:7/19/09.

Art installation / sculpture by Chen Zhen just inside the entrance to Giardiini during la Biennale di Venezia 2009 in Venice, Italy.

LEFT: 11/17/09 in a phone booth on Avenue Louise near the intersection of Avenue Legrande in Brussels, Belgium.

See Where it was left:

PX No.277

2009-11-18T04:55:00.001-05:00

PX No.277
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No. 277 (SX No.267)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 779 "Share the Love" from PolaPremium (expired 7/2009)
DATE: 10/10/09

A Relationship of architectural elements of a walkway on the 5th floor of Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

CROSSED: with PX No.244
LEFT: on 10/16/09 on a bench just outside Beaux-Arts Mons gallery in Mons, Belgium where PX No.224 was shot on 8/2/09.

FOUND! - By Jonathan Wallez on November 14, 2009 (almost 1 month later)

CROSSED WITH: PX No.224 WHICH WAS LEFT HERE:

SEE PX No.224

Which is right where I left PX No.277

PX No.193

2009-11-06T11:03:00.001-05:00

PX No.193
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.193

Relationship with skylight handle at Villa Tigli in Venice Italy.
Shot with Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE using 600 film. (expired 12/2008)
DATE: 7/19/09

CROSSED WITH: PX No.188
LEFT ON 7/24/09

PX No.193 Was left Here:

on 7/24/09 in the grid of a deStijl - style storefront which was closed down and for sale along Rue de Bertaimont in Mons, Belgium.

Which is where PX No.188 was taken:

Which , when crossed, was left here:

on the back of the headboard of our bed at the Villa Tigli bed & breakfast, on the mainland of Venice, Italy, on 7/19/09, where the skylight picture PX No.193 was shot in the first place.

PX No.192

2009-11-06T10:44:00.001-05:00

PX No.192
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.192
Camera: Polaroid ColorPack II
Film: Fuji FP100c
DATE: 7/16/09

Red door about 10 feet off the ground outside the parking garage of CHU Ambrose Paré Hospital in Mons Belgium. I have no clue what it could be for.

CROSSED WITH: PX No. 205
LEFT: on 7/20/09

CROSSED WITH PX No.205 which was LEFT HERE:

on 8/17/09.

See the original PX No. 205 this was crossed with:

PX No 192 WAS LEFT HERE:

on 7/20/09 in the Chinese Pavilion of the Arsenale exhibit at la Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Set on the floor next to a red fire extinguisher beside a piece of artwork by artist He Sen titled "The World of Taji"

PX No.191

2009-11-06T10:27:00.001-05:00

PX No.191
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.191 (CP No.88)
CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Fuji FP100c
DATE: 7/16/09

Relationship with white, magenta, cyan and yellow. From elements in the cafeteria of CHU Ambrose Paré Hospital in Mons Belgium.

CROSSED WITH: PX No.254
LEFT: on 9/13/09

SEE WHERE IT WAS LEFT:

on 9/13/09 on the front plaque of Ville de Bruxelles Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Brussels, Belgium

SEE PX No. 254 it was CROSSED WITH:

PX No.187

2009-11-06T09:58:00.001-05:00

PX No.187
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.187 (MIO No.8)
CAMERA: Polaroid MIO
FILM: Fuji Instax Mini
DATE: 7/3/09

Multi-colored chairs at Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium.

SEE WHERE IT WAS LEFT:

on 7/19/09 on a park bench near the entrance to the Giardini exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia in Venice Italy.

PX No.223

2009-11-02T17:42:00.001-05:00

PX No.223
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.223 (MIO No.6)
CAMERA: Polaroid Mio
FILM: Fuji Instax Mini
DATE: 8/2/09

Abstract relationship of elements on the bottom floor of Beaux-Arts Mons (BAM) Museum in Mons, Belgium

LEFT: 10/24/09 On a smaller pyramid just outside the main entrance to the Louvre in Paris

CROSSED WITH: TBA

See where it was left:

PX No. 97

2009-10-28T19:45:00.001-04:00

PX No. 97
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

Hibiscus flower in my front yard in Hudson, Florida. Shot with my SX-70 Alpha I SE on 600 film. Picturecrossing No. 97 (SX No.37) - Shot on 7/5/08.

LEFT: on 7/19/09 on a Vaporetto in Venice, Italy between the San Marco and San Zaccaria stops.

CLICK HERE TO SEE WHERE IT WAS LEFT:

PX No.261

2009-10-28T07:46:00.001-04:00

PX No.261
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.261 (M5 No.13)
CAMERA: Polaroid M5
FILM: Polaroid Spectra expired 2007
DATE: 10/4/09
Drawn on 10/22/09

My Star Wars' R2-D2 figurine.

LEFT: 10/24/09 at Musée du Louvre in Paris, France in the same room as La Giaconda or Mona Lisa, just on a window sill over a bench.

See where it was left:

PX No.189

2009-10-21T08:59:00.001-04:00

PX No.189
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.189
(CP No.85)
CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Fuji FP 100C
Date: 7/8/09

Hotel de Ville in the Grand Place, Mons, Belgium.

LEFT ON: 7/19/09 on a ledge just outside the Comando Provinciale Vigili del Fuoco Saserma Centrale in Venice, Italy.

See where this was left:

PX No.205

2009-10-21T08:53:00.001-04:00

PX No.205
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.205
(SX No.211)
CAMERA: SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: 779 "Share the Love" (exp. 6/2009)
Date: 7/20/09
During la Biennale di Venezia 2009, this image is of an installation in the China Pavilion by artist He Sen "The World of Taiji" showing dozens of framed canvasses with a single color of paint and very light engravings which are almost imperceptible. Arsenale - Venice, Italy.

CROSSED WITH PX No.192
LEFT ON: 8/17/09 on red door outside Ambroise Paré Hospital in Mons, Belgium.

SEE WHERE THIS WAS LEFT:

SEE PX. No 192 which this was crossed with:

PX No.270 "Elmer Fudd <3s Pikachu"

2009-10-21T08:49:00.001-04:00

PX No.270 "Elmer Fudd
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No. 270 "Elmer Fudd <3s Pikachu"
(SX No. 250)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired 8/2009)
DATE SHOT: 10/4/09
DATE DRAWN: 10/9/09

Another of the shots from the figurine booth in the Mons Street Market. This is the first Polaroid I've used markers to draw on. I really like the result and will work more on this technique. Even though this film just expired 2 months ago it is already showing signs of deterioration. I like the undeveloped spot at the top and the pink swath down the center, but I wonder how this bodes for the dozens of other packs I have with this expiration date?

This was left on 10/10/09 in the Museé d'Orsay in Paris. (ha - my first exhibition at the Orsay!) (SEE MY COMMENT BELOW)

Click this photo to see where it was left:

PX No.224

2009-10-21T07:13:00.001-04:00

PX No.224
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.224 (IG No.9)
Camera: Polaroid Impulse (Green)
Film: Polaroid 600 Copy & Fax
(Expired 11/99)
DATE: 8/2/09
Architectural elements outside the Beaux Arts Mons gallery in Mons, Belgium. - These prints look completely black when they come out of the camera and develop very slowly into the low contrast image you see in the background. (I've got the camera set almost all the way to "lighten") Then about 30 minutes later these "bubbles" begin to appear and become harder over the hour or so. The slight orange shift you see is there indeed.

LEFT: This picture was left on 10/10/09 on the structural elements of a walkway on the 5th floor of the Museé d'Orsay in Paris.

Click the photo to see where it was left:

CROSSED WITH: PX No.277

PX No.108

2009-10-21T07:11:00.001-04:00

PX No.108
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.108

PX No. 108 (FSX No.44)
CAMERA: Freitag Edition SX-70 (with filter)
FILM: Polaroid 600
DATE: 7/22/08

deStijl relationship with yellow, green and purple. Shot at "Spinnations" skating rink in Port Richey.

LEFT on 10/10/2009 on a wall just across from the entrance to Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
to be CROSSED with: PX No.279 shot there that same day.

CROSSED WITH PX No.279:

Click this picture to see where it was left:

PX No.260

2009-10-21T07:09:00.001-04:00

PX No.260
Originally uploaded by lancephoto

PX No.260 (EZ No.50)
CAMERA: Polaroid Electric Zip (red)
FILM: Polaroid 88 (expired 1/2002)
DATE: 10/2/09

Relationship with vented glass bricks in the bathroom of la Livre de Café in Mons, Belgium.

LEFT HERE: on 10/10/09

CROSSED WITH PX No.276

PX No.205

2009-09-29T11:03:00.005-04:00

PX No.205 (SX No.111)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 779 "Share the Love" (exp. 6/2009)
DATE: 7/20/09
LOCATION: China Pavilion, Arsenale, la Biennale di Venezia

During la Biennale di Venezia 2009, this image is of an installation in the China Pavilion by artist He Sen "The World of Taiji" showing dozens of framed canvasses with a single color of paint and very light engravings which are almost imperceptible. Arsenale - Venice, Italy.

CROSSED WITH: PX No.192

LEFT: HERE on 8/17/09 on red door outside Ambroise Paré Hospital in Mons, Belgium.

PX No.62

2009-08-24T17:23:00.008-04:00

PX No.62 (OC No.2)
CAMERA: Polaroid One-Step Close-Up
FILM: Polaroid 600
DATE: 5/20/08
LOCATION: Zeldas Cafe and Deli 1239 E.Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, Florida

Just my second shot with the One-Step Close-Up, It shows three orange, traffic cones against a wall just outside this great Caribbean restaurant between the outdoor seating area and the Gas Station next door. - Shot this while waiting for my lunch after a staff meeting at the Times' Tampa bureau.

(PICTURE TO COME)

LEFT: HERE by friend and fellow artist Tanya Antonio in January 2009 in London, England inside one of the capsules of The London Eye.

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PX No.154

2009-08-18T19:18:00.018-04:00

PX No.154 (M5 No.3)
CAMERA: Polaroid M5 Medical Macro Camera
FILM: Polaroid Spectra
DATE: 2/23/08
LOCATION: Front Porch, Hudson, Florida
Trying out the new M5 Medical Macro camera I'd bought on eBay (for about $50 including 5 good packs of Spectra). I shot a few close-ups of the small roses blooming in our front garden.

LEFT: on 7/20/09 in the Grand Canal of Venice, Italy just North of the Piazza San Marco. Set it on the steps and watched the waves take it and carry it away.

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PX No.89

2009-08-15T21:33:00.007-04:00

PX No.89 (CP No.22)
CAMERA: Polaroid ColorPack II
FILM: Polaroid 672 B&W ASA 400
DATE: 6/18/08
LOCATION: Science Building - Florida Southern College, Lakeland

Black & White relationship of elements of the Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in the Science Building on the campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland on 6/18/08

LEFT: on 7/19/09 in Venice, Italy in the Norway (Nordic Countries) Pavilion in a book of Polaroid photographs by Oslo artist: Thora Dolven Balke. It was obvious that so many people had been turning the pages of the book and some of her wonderful pictures were even missing. I don't know whether they'd just fallen out or if people had stolen them. One page in particular had no pictures on it at all so that's where I left this picture, photographed it, then closed the book and left.

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PX No.121

2009-08-11T18:24:00.006-04:00

PX No.121 (SX No.114)
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 (expired)
DATE: 10/12/08
LOCATION: Miami-Dade College Medical Campus.

Relationship with 4 orange squares. This is a sign giving directions to different locations on the campus. Shot while I was there working on a story about refugee doctors.

LEFT: On 8/9/09 in my room (209) at CHU Ambrose Paré Hospital in Mons, Belgium. Just under the shelf where Linda's placed our fan (no AC) which I could see from my bed as I recovered from surgery.

CROSSED WITH: PX No.227 which was shot there.

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PX No.183

2009-07-29T06:59:00.006-04:00

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

2009-07-29T06:40:00.007-04:00

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

2009-07-27T09:21:00.006-04:00

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

2009-07-24T07:56:00.003-04:00

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

2009-07-23T20:55:00.010-04:00

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

2009-07-15T17:17:00.004-04:00

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

2009-07-15T16:37:00.009-04:00

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.

Last day of 08 - St. Pete & Sick Electric Zip?

2009-01-01T00:56:00.006-05:00

Needless to say I didn't get the chance to photograph the girl with the Polaroid tattoos or I would have posted the photos. She realized she had an earlier flight (or at least that's what she told the creepy old guy who wanted to take pictures of her), and she said she would call when she comes back from LA in several months.

I did try one more Holgaroid, HR No. 3, this time outside on the dock using what appears to be the landscape setting on the lens, but this turned out even blurrier than the rest, so I suppose I'll need to set up some kind of measured shot with points of focus at specific intervals to figure out where it is focusing.

Today I took 3 cameras down to St. Petersburg with the intent to get a few last pictures shot in 2008. Big Shot (Polacolor 100 film), Electric Zip (VIVA 125 film) and SX-70 Alpha I SE (600& 779). Got one nice shot off with the EZ but then the shutter wouldn't trip for a second shot. ??? I hope it isn't kaput... It just feels as though the shutter button isn't catching to trip the shutter. I hope I can fix it because that was my favorite camera of the moment.

Shot 2 SX-70 pix of an interesting purple & yellow painted architectural element while waiting for a Mojo Chicken Cuban Sandwich at Tangelo's Grill on 1st Avenue North (YUMALISHOUS!). Tried to shoot one of this with the Big Shot but it was too dark for the 100 film. Then wandered around the edges of Baywalk to find something interesting. Found a few cool industrial elements to shoot with the SX-70 on the 779 film (that is turning out to be pretty dull so far - expired 2005) and was accosted by a security guard who didn't give me any trouble after looking at my "artwork."

I made it to the car with 3 minutes to spare on my 90 minute spot and drove back up to Starbucks on Little Road (my new haunt) to work on my cataloging. Met a cool kid there who was interested in my Polaroids, shoots some herself. I might give her one of my thrift store cameras as she said her One Step has broken. Shot a photo of her and her friend that works at Starbucks with the Big Shot to show her how PackFilm works. The Magicube I had in the BG wouldn't fire so I plugged in a new one and it fired right away. That was my last shot of 2008.

Here's hoping the Electric Zip magically works in 2009...

Pix to be added ?

First Journal Entry: Today's Purchase and Polaroid Tattoos

2008-12-27T19:19:00.011-05:00

So this will be a fairly long entry because it is the first time I'm making a daily journal-type post. Up 'till now I have only been posting the Picturecrossing pictures and a few of the ideas I've had, but I've been thinking for a while about just going ahead and making this a regular blog and post entries about the cameras I buy or other Polaroid related things that happen on a day to day basis because it really does seem to be taking over my life.

Today I stopped at the Salvation Army Thrift Store on Ridge Road in Port Richey and saw three Polaroids there for sale at like $2.99 each but I already had several of each of them so I didn't buy them. (OneStep Close-Up, Sun 600 LMS, and a One Step Flash- I think). But while I was browsing them you won't believe what happened... I saw a girl walking by who had a Polaroid Camera tattoo on the back of her arm. Of course I had to talk to her and find out about the tats. Her name was Stephanie Powell and she is a fashion designer in LA who was home for Christmas. She told me she is always shooting Polaroids, that's why she chose to get the tats. I'll be photographing her tomorrow morning before she goes back to LA so I plan to load the photos on my next post.
While I was shopping there I bid on and won some Polaroid Type 88 film I'd been watching on eBay (using my iPhone). Four boxes for $45.00 + $10.oo shipping making them about $13.75 each. It expired in 2005 but I'm really loving the square format peel apart cameras like my red Electric Zip.

Next stop for the day was at Goodwill on US 19 in Port Richey. The first thing I saw there was a Colorpack IV (1969-1971), which I don't have, in the case with a bunch of extras, but it was priced at like $15.00 and it was not in very good shape with some serious corrosion on the batteries.
Then I saw this cool little "Spartus" camera in the original box.
It is an old 127 film camera that was in pretty good condition but was like $8.00 so I didn't bother with it. (Shot this image with my iPhone)

But what I almost missed in the same case with it was one of those old light brown leather Polaroid cases which contained a really nice Model J66 in the original case with a bunch of flash bulbs and documentation for just $10. It was in really great shape or I wouldn't have bought it because it takes the old roll film which of course is not available in usable condition, making this camera just a nice addition to the collection I have now decided to put on top of my book shelves.

When I got home I was feeling great about my purchases and finally got brave enough to try out the new Holgaroid camera I'd purchased, especially since I just won 4 more boxes of film that can be used in it. So I took out a box of my Polaroid Viva film (color ISO 125), that I'd paid about $22.00 a pack for a few weeks ago. I'd found a great deal on Craig's List of a Holga 120 SF camera with a Polaroid back for Type 80 film AND 5 boxes of Polaroid 85 Positive/Negative film (ISO 80). Got all this for $110 including shipping, back a few weeks ago.
So I loaded up a pack of Viva and took my wife Linda outside to test it out. My first try (on the left), setting the lens to the closest setting (head & shoulders) was pretty blurry so I got a bit closer - about 3.5 feet now and the result was a bit better but still blurry. I have heard that some kind of adapter lens is supposed to be used when using the Polaroid back but I don't seem to have one so perhaps that is why it is still not in focus. If you know anything about this please contact me so I can figure it out. The exposures were not too bad in bright sunlight so I think this will be quite challenging, but fun!

Tomorrow I plan to photograph Stephanie and her Polaroid tattoos...

PX No. 65

2008-08-12T11:37:00.003-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Colorpack II
FILM: Polaroid ID-UV (expired)
DATE: 5/24/08
LOCATION: Vacant Storefront
PX No. 65 (CP No. 3)
I'd been wanting to shoot this boarded-up building for quite a while and finally took the time to stop and make some prints. This long-vacant building looks like it used to be a K-Mart or Wal-Mart but obviously hasn't been occupied for several years. It is located in the 2400 block of Commercial Way, (US Hwy 19) in Spring Hill, Florida. I stood on the back bumper of my Suzuki Samurai to try and line it up correctly. There are a few other shots of this bldg. CP No. 5, and PX No. 66, which as of this posting has not been left anywhere yet.

PX No. 65 was left on August 1, 2008 just below the elevator buttons of the 37th floor of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown New Orleans, LA. My mother, Karen Rothstein, left it there while staying there on a train trip while volunteering for the National Parks Service. She won $5.00 at the casino that night...

I got an email from Kat Painter on 8/8/08 saying they found it and would "send it somewhere interesting." I hope they'll add a comment here about their thoughts... Let's see where it ends up...

PX No. 36

2008-08-02T23:28:00.004-04:00

CAMERA: Fuji Instax 200
FILM: Fuji Instax Wide Format
DATE: 4/18/08
LOCATION: Vacant Steakhouse
PX No. 36 (FX No. 18)
This shot is a detail of the side of an abandoned building that used to be a steakhouse. I took several pictures at this location. It took me quite a bit of time to find a good composition here even though it looked like a great place for pictures.

This picture was left on 4/21/08 on a lightpost in the parking lot of a movie theater just around the corner from the spot where it was shot.

Linda and I went to see a movie there quite a few weeks later and the picture was still there, but then it was gone the next time we were there.

PX No. 30

2008-07-27T19:07:00.004-04:00

CAMERA: Fuji Instax 200
FILM: Fuji Instax Wide Format
DATE: 4/11/08
LOCATION: "Picture House"- Spring Hill, Florida
PX No. 30 (FX No. 4)

This shot is a detail of the side of an abandoned building called "The Picture House" by locals. It is located on US. Hwy 41 near the intersection of Spring Hill Drive in Spring Hill, Florida. This building had been a roadside art gallery of sorts for may years but had been abandoned for quite some time. There were "Highwaymen" style landscape paintings in panels all over the building, which had obviously been housing the homeless for a while. After shooting this, I mentioned this building to a colleague, Times columnist Dan DeWitt , he did some research and was contacted about it just before it was to be demolished. He learned that the paintings were said to have been done by a white man called "Bard" from Kentucky and had seen that signature on one panel. We arrived just minutes before it was destroyed and I was allowed to make some hi-rez digital photographs of some of the panels before the bulldozers demolished it. I even took a brick from the rubble and am keeping it on my desk with Dan's Article from The Times. A CVS is planned for the property. Other pix of this building: FX No. 5 & FX No. 6.

This print was left on 6/27/08 on a public bulletin board in front of the main library of University of Florida in Gainesville. There were months of remains of fliers and posters making a nice collage including a shot of Alberto Gonzalez. I expected to "cross" this picture with the image of the bulletin board (PX No. 92), (see also SX No. 28) but now that the building's been torn down, I'm not sure where I'll leave PX No. 92.

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PX No. 24

2008-07-27T13:12:00.003-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100
FILM: Fuji FP3000BSS
DATE: 4/2/08
LOCATION: Ruth Eckerd hall - Clearwater, Florida
PX No. 24 (LC No. 42) is another shot at from Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. The building was designed by Taliesin Associated Architects, led by William Wesley Peters, the apprentice to and protegé of Frank Lloyd Wright.
This frame shows the bench and wall in front of the box office. I really like the shadows in this shot.

I left this picture on 5/20/08 in the valet stand just in front of the lobby. I felt like I was getting some strange looks from the box office staff and there were security cameras everywhere. I was sure someone was going to come out and tell me to leave but they never did. I also left PX No. 54 the same day actually in a detail from this picture.

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The SX-70 ND Filter solution!

2008-06-04T15:41:00.006-04:00

OK - Here are FOUR Options I'm offering for sale. (PHOTOS BELOW)

Each of these are a perfect option for those of you not wanting to spend a hundred dollars to send your precious SX-70 off to someone who will tear her apart to try to modify it for 600 film. Or trying to attach those flimsy ND film filters to each film pack - only to have it spit out half the time.

You just attach the filter to the flash holder and shoot away. Then just take it off when you're done. It's that simple.

Filter#1 =$ 45.00 - Polaroid SX-70 Accessory Holder with hand-cut ND4 plexiglass filter.
(This is subject to me having purchase access to the accessory holder at a reasonable price)

Filter #2 = $26.00 - Just the ND4 plexiglass filter, hand-cut and sanded to fit the Polaroid SX-70 accessory holder. (You supply the holder)

Filter #3 - $30.00 - This is a hand made accessory holder (using aluminum and electrical tape) with the ND4 Plexiglass filter cut and sanded to fit.

Filter #4 $15.00 - The same hand made accessory holder with a thin ND film instead of a Plexiglass filter. (I only have 4 of these)

(Please do not fool yourself into believing that my hand made accessory holder is going to be some precise, machine-tooled beauty. I'm by no means an engineer of any sort. But this is a simple and cheap, if ugly and flimsy, solution.

FILTER #1 ( I realize it says ND8 - but it will be ND4)

FILTER #4 (click to enlarge)

eMail (lance@lancephoto.com) or Flickr Mail me for info or to order. PayPal is preferred but I can also accept Money Orders. I am custom making these so please allow at least 5 days for production time before they are shipped.
Peace - Lance

SX-70 ND Filter Solution

2008-05-13T23:11:00.005-04:00

Ok so I got fed up with trying to figure out how to attach one of those pack filters and decided to use the perfect accessory holder already produced by Polaroid.

I am using the Polaroid SX-70 Accessory Holder

And a flat square Neutral Density Filter like the Cokin style.

Even when very carefully trying to cut the filter in to 4 small pieces, I destroyed the first quarter, but the second try came out almost perfect and after a bit of sanding fit right into the accessory holder.

Please let me know if you are interested in purchasing one of these and I'll figure out how much it will cost to produce them.

Here's a photo taken with the filter on.
Feel free to let me know what you think...
Peace - Lance

PX No. 17

2008-05-12T16:46:00.004-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100
FILM: Polaroid 690
DATE: 3/26/08
LOCATION: Channel District - Tampa, Florida
PX No. 17 (LC No. 32) is another shot from the Channel District in Downtown Tampa. It was shot with several other images that day. This is the second-to-last image that has the "lancephoto.com/photocrossing" signature (PX No. 18 does too). I shot this image while waiting for a sandwich at a Caribbean restaurant (can't recall the name but they have awesome food!) near the corner of 0f Channelside Drive and Kennedy.
I really liked the red doors in contrast to the expansive white wall. This is the "Artists Unlimited Incorporated" building. I don't know much about them and the building seemed to have been closed for a while...
After I ate my sandwich I left the photograph taped to the wall near where it was shot on the same day.

PX No. 21

2008-05-11T00:25:00.004-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100
FILM: Fuji FP3000B
DATE: 4/2/08
LOCATION: Ruth Eckerd Hall - Clearwater, Florida
PX No. 21 is another shot from Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. The building was designed by Taliesin Associated Architects, led by William Wesley Peters, the apprentice to and protegé of Frank Lloyd Wright.
This shot is of the main stairwell. It was very challenging trying to get it to line up the way I wanted it. I shot several images of this magnificent staircase including a color Sun 660 shot (PX No. 21) and two more B&W shots (LC No.36 and LC No. 41)

PX No. 21 was left on 4/4/08 in a bus stop in north Tampa on Northdale Blvd near the intersection of Dale Mabry. I was on my way to meet a bride (Heidi Hohmann) at her home to do some shooting before her wedding.

PX No. 22

2008-05-10T21:50:00.004-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Sun 660
FILM: Polaroid 600
DATE: 4/2/08
LOCATION: Ruth Eckerd Hall - Clearwater, Florida
PX No. 22 is another shot from Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. The building was designed by Taliesin Associated Architects, led by William Wesley Peters, the apprentice to and protegé of Frank Lloyd Wright.
This is a beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright - style door. I had some difficulty shooting it the way I wanted to because of the myriad reflections but this one came out ok.

On Saturday, 4/5/08 I left this one at Tampa General Hospital (along with PX No. 27). This image was left on the ground floor just under a lamp and just across from the cafeteria. I'm sure dozens of people walked right past it before some administrator noticed it and pulled it down to drop it in the rubbish bin. Though the halls were full of some fairly good modern art, I wonder how many people even look at the art that is hung there intentionally? I appreciated it but I suppose many people just ignore it as I ignore bad motel paintings.

PX No. 42

2008-05-10T16:37:00.005-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100
FILM: Fuji FP100C
DATE: 4/26/08
LOCATION: Highway 98 North of Brooksville, FL
PX No. 42 was shot using my Polaroid Land Camera Auto 100. This shot of a dilapidated farm house, was taken on the day I decided to leave some pictures in corresponding locations and so it corresponds with PX No. 35 of a stack of red palates behind the Home Depot in Port Richey. So this picture was actually left on the stack of palates. It took me a while to get back to the location but I finally did and it was left on 5/6/08.

PX No. 4

2008-04-27T00:22:00.002-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100
FILM: Fuji FP100 B&W
DATE: 3/19/08
LOCATION: My Home on Leeside Isle in Hudson, FL
PX No. 4 was shot while I was still having shutter and light leak problems. I thought I could get my cat Hobbes to stay still in his cat bed but as you can see I was incorrect. Hobbes is one of my favorite test subjects. I like the movement in this image.

I left it on 3/24/08 on an end table at the Starbucks in Brooksville, FL on Highway 50 near the Suncoast Parkway. I have already left another photo at this location (PX No. 18) and that makes nearly 40 pictures I have left at random locations and still, no one has contacted me to say they have found one. I don't know what that says about my idea or about the lack of value that photographs have come to garner. I suspect that most of my pictures have found their end in a trash can. Some janitor or clean-up person picked it up as litter and assumed someone left it as trash or by accident. That reminds me of what my wife Linda said on the first day I told her of my plans. "Oh, so not only are you littering, but you're defacing public property as well."

Somehow that seems to make this project even more meaningful, that I'm leaving the pictures, that I value so much, knowing that they will likely end up being trashed. That will make the ones that are actually found (if any) even more vital.

PX No. 10

2008-04-27T00:00:00.002-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100
FILM: Polaroid 690 Color
DATE: 3/21/08
LOCATION: Channel District, Tampa
PX No. 10 was shot in one of my favorite locations, the Channel District in Downtown Tampa. This was just across from the District Designs store. The afternoon shadows are great everywhere you look. I wish I could live in one of the lofts in this neighborhood. It is very Deco. There are many other pictures from this area and probably many more to come.

I left this one near the Port of Tampa just outside the Jeoffrey's Coffee shop at Channelside, on the same day, just before my shoot at The Sweatshop.

PX No. 35

2008-04-26T14:33:00.005-04:00

CAMERA: Fuji Instax 200
FILM: Fujicolor Instax Wide
DATE: 4/18/08
LOCATION: Behind Home Depot in Port Richey, FL
PX No. 35 was shot using the Fuji Instax 200 camera along with several other shots on this date (FX No 15 & PX No. 34 among others). I'm looking forward to getting the Instax 500 that I've ordered from PaparazziAlex on Flickr.com. It is supposed to have a much closer focusing distance that might have made this a better photo.
In any case, I like the red in this image showing a stack of wooden palates behind the Home Depot.
I left this photo at an abandoned, dilapidated farm house on Highway 98 North of Brooksville, FL, just South of the Suncoast Parkway today (4/26/08). I'd been on assignment for The Times, shooting an RC Airshow nearby. And this gave me a pretty interesting idea.
I'd actually stopped to make some pictures of the farmhouse (PX No. 42) and didn't decide until after shooting that I would leave a picture there on the post that was an integral part of the other picture. This sprouted the idea of leaving the farmhouse picture (PX No. 42) on the stack of palates behind Home Depot, thereby linking the two locations and pictures. The palates are in front of the farmhouse and the farmhouse will be on the palates about 50 miles away in another city (when I next get the chance to pass by there).

PX No. 3

2008-04-25T12:58:00.002-04:00

Camera: Polaroid Sun 660
Film: Polaroid 600
PX No. 3 is the first photograph I actually wrote "Photocrossing" on. The first two I just put my email address on and they were not numbered, nor did I photograph them, though I have similar pictures from the shoot. I had made a web page as an extension of my LANCEPHOTO.COM domain, before I purchased the "picturecrossing.com" domain.

This image was made around the corner from the historic Tampa Theatre in Downtown Tampa, Florida. It was actually an accidental shot that I made while shooting one of my City Trees pictures.

This shot was left on Polk Street taped to an old, empty frame for movie advertisements as you can see below.

PX No. 39

2008-04-23T11:38:00.006-04:00

PX No. 39 (aka LC 52) was shot on 4/18/08 with my Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100 using Polaroid 400 B&W film.
This shot was made at a vacant building on US Hwy 19 in Port Richey, FL at the intersection of Cinema Drive. The building used to be a steak house but has been abandoned for a few years now I think.

I made a few other pictures at this location including LC No. 53, PX No. 36 and PX No. 38.

I like the shadows, though the clouds kept blocking the sun causing the shadows to vanish so I had to wait a while for the good shadows to return. I also like the natural element of the leaf and the screws in the brick. You don't often see screws in bricks...
Obviously there was some kind of emulsion glitch in the bottom left corner, but that's what makes Polaroids so fun, (and frustrating) there's always an element of random uniqueness.

I left this picture in an ornamental box at a Michael's craft store on Highway 50 in Brooksville, Florida on Saturday 4/19/08.

PX No. 25

2008-04-16T13:51:00.008-04:00

CAMERA: Polaroid Sun 660
FILM: Polaroid 600
DATE: 4/2/08
LOCATION: Ruth Eckerd hall - Clearwater, Florida

PX No. 25 (S6 No.53) is another shot from Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. I found this wall with the word "WALL" on it. (It actually says "Wall of Stars" but I like it better with just WALL) I have a similar one from a slightly different angle available on my website: http://www.picturecrossing.com
This picture was left (appropriately) on a wall in the stairwell of the main library at University of South Florida on 4/5/08.

PX No. 32

2008-04-15T01:40:00.004-04:00

PX No. 32 is one of the first pictures I took with my new Fuji Instax 200 camera. These wild flowers are growing in vast tracts all over the sides of the highways here in West Central Florida. It was shot on 4/11/08 off the side of the road at the intersection of US Hwy 41 and County Line Road between Pasco and Hernando Counties near Masaryktown.
I left this picture in an instant photo booth at the Gulf View Square Mall in Port Richey on 4/14/08.

PX No. 26

2008-04-14T00:52:00.004-04:00

PX No. 26 was shot with my Polaroid Sun 660 on 4/3/08. There was this amazing cloud reflecting the brilliant orange light from the setting sun and I photographed it as it passed by my neighbor's roof.

A similar image is available for sale (S6 No. 60)

You can see the other pictures on my website:
http://www.picturecrossing.com

This instant print was left in a Kasimir Malevich book at the main Library of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. on 4/5/08.

PX No. 29

2008-04-09T12:19:00.007-04:00

PX No. 29

This image was taken with my Sun 660 using Polaroid 600 film. It was shot on Saturday, 4/5/08 in front of the University of South Florida Library. This green awning leads into the vending machine area. There was an interesting sticker places in the corner of the awning, of a woman flying or swimming. I love when there are little grounding elements within the abstract image. Like the little bird in my previous post. (PX No. 28).

So I left this picture right underneath the awning on an empty box in the bank of newspaper dispensers.

PX No. 28

2008-04-08T16:40:00.001-04:00

PX No. 28

I was very pleased with this Sun 660 picture taken on Saturday, 4/5/08, in the parking garage at Tampa General Hospital. Each level is marked by a different color so you can remember where you parked. So this is the space between the red and green levels.
I shot another picture (S6 No. 65 is available for purchase) from this staircase showing a diagonal shape against the red background. As I was shooting it a little bird landed on the edge and helped make it a perfect frame.

PX No. 28 was left in a book "Mondrian : Colour Structure & Symbolism" by Hans Locher, at the main library of University of South Florida in Tampa on the same day. I thought it would be interesting to place it next to one of his paintings that was of a similar structure. Now we'll see how long before someone actually checks out this book.

I also left another picture there (PX No. 26) in a Kasmir Malevich book.

PX No. 27

2008-04-08T10:11:00.000-04:00

PX No. 27

This image was taken Saturday, 4/5/08 at Tampa General Hospital in a 5th floor waiting room. I was visiting a friend who's wife was in intensive care and spent some time in this room. I made several pictures at this location including S6 No. 61 and S6 No. 63.

In this image you can see the shadow of some medical personnel as they walk by the frosted glass on the left. I also hoped to get the vague impression of the shapes from windows in an adjacent building as seen through these windows.

The picture was left on the same date at a computer station in another waiting room on the same floor (seen below).

WELCOME!

2008-04-06T10:36:00.000-04:00

Have you found one of my Polaroid pictures? I'm leaving them at random locations throughout the world.

Sometimes I leave them near where they were taken. Other times they are left far away.

Each of them is a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork.

Please contact me to find out more about them and tell me the story about how and where you found it.

Then you may keep it, or leave it somewhere else for another person to find, thereby sending each little captured frame on its own journey, giving infinite life to that one moment in space & time.

For more information please visit my website: http://www.picturecrossing.com

There you can browse all the PICTURECROSSING photos, see where they were left and read their stories if they have been found yet. You may also shop in my gallery of other photographs.

Thanks for playing.
Peace.
- Lance Aram Rothstein