I’ve been sitting at home today while the contractors rip out the floor that used to be the kids’ bathroom. Since I didn’t want to lock myself in the bedroom and pretend to work out, nor get out all of my supplies and work on my fertility book, I decided to scan in the Polaroids I took from 2002-2003. I’ve been wanting to do this for a bit just to have them digitally in some form, but I never really had the time to sit down and do something I felt was so tedious. Today, I took the time.
Here’s the thing though- I didn’t edit them at all, aside from creating a batch process for levels to make the border of the Polaroid actually look white instead of grey. Someday I really want to make a book from these Polaroids, but I don’t necessarily know how.
See, every year as an undergrad I made a scrapbook; I had one ginormous non-chronological one for freshman and sophomore year, and the same, but more in order, for my junior year. Senior year I decided to take nothing but black and white photos and print all the photos myself (ha!) and that took forever. The year after graduation I decided to take only Polaroids. For awhile I displayed the Polaroids on a giant 36×48 piece of foam board in my dining area, attached with velcro so I could move them around if and when I wanted. But, I want more than that. I want something more than a giant piece of board to be their home.
I had thought about making a type of bound book using only the Polaroids and punching a single hole in, say, the top or bottom corner, and attaching a ring of sorts to make it look like a paint swatch or something, but I have too many photos and that would degrade the photos themselves possibly. Because I sometimes turned the camera (why because it’s a square hole I’ll never know) I can’t just tape bind them and flip through. So, yeah, I’m still trying to figure that whole thing out. We’ll see.
For now, I have an album for your viewing pleasure (when Flickr decides to like me again that is).
