SHOFUSO; THROUGH TREES AND ACROSS WATER

Above: My favorite of the COLOR SHADE images so far.



Above: If you look real hard at the bottom right corner, you can spot the house.

.......More SHOFUSO VIEWS........

....Natsume (a tea caddy)......a room within a room with a view......a wall....

......SHOFUSO VIEWS.......

The ABOVE images are closer to my intention of capturing the "dream" aspect of Shofuso, achieved through the peculiarities of Impossible Project's new COLOR SHADE instant color film medium on a Polaroid sx-70 One-Step camera. As time passes from an initial exposure (minutes, days, weeks), COLOR SHADE undergoes color shifts (mostly in the cyan and green range). It also creates unique focusing phenomena, such as having seemingly selective details being in crisp focus, and others blurred and swirled to some extent. This last part has also to do with my images all being taken without a tripod.

Below is a related image taken with a Spectra camera on SOFFTONE film which is a wide-frame format instant film. SOFTTONE images express more accurate and vibrant color translation, and their crispness of detail is uniform. Be that as it may, I will strive to find the dreamlike in SOFTTONE and find the opposite in COLOR SHADE!

SHOFUSO VIEWS.........Ongoing

These photographs are among my first explorations with instant integral film. I have chosen Shofuso Japanese House and Garden as a central subject, hoping to highlight, across many views, the reality and the dream that is Shofuso; a pocket of 17th Century Japan tucked away in modern day Philadelphia (Fairmount park). I used Polaroid SOFTTONE, and Impossible's new COLOR SHADE FIRST FLUSH film mediums.

ABOVE: Four Women from the Omotesenke School of Tea in NY visited Shofuso for a demonstration. I passed them sitting, enjoying the warm weather and talking on a bench. They were gracious enough to let me take their picture.



This second image, which appears over-exposed and somewhat blurry, is a triple-exposure photograph of Shofuso taken from the far edge of its property. This particular multiple-exposure is achieved with a Spectra Polaroid Camera using SOFTTONE (edge-cut) film.