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Trafalgar Square Lion, plus Polaroid close up!
You may be wondering what one of these maniupluated Polaroids looks like close up. Well, here’s one I did of one of the Lions at Trafalgar Square, London (black doesn’t smudge well!) and underneath is a close-up example of what it looks like! 
Cutty Sark, Greenwich
The famous Cutty Sark tea clipper, now in Greenwich, UK.
This is a polaroid sx-70 manipulation, which is to say I used nothing more than a wooden skewer to smoosh around the emulsion of a polaroid shot. There is no Photoshop here and no digital effects.
Tower Bridge, Thames
This is Tower Bridge on the Thames. The Polaroid on the left is an SX-70 manipulation by me, the one on the right by Kim (easily the best of the two), both photos being taken within a minute of one another. The yellow dots are due to a defect in the old camera, but I kind of like it.
Walthamstow, E17
We went to Walthamstow markets (postcode: E17) for the first time yesterday. An extended Leather Lane/Chapel Street (I work in Clerkenwell) for the senses, a Portobello Rd without the tourists (or the antiques), a mile of shopping without the fashion, and a “cacaphony” of activity. And what photo do I take? A brick building just above one of the market stalls for Polaroid purposes. I did take about half a dozen photos with my film camera, but there are still 30 left on the roll so it’ll be a while before those are seen.
Who needs Photoshop…?
Well, although there was no Photoshop involved in the manipulation of this SX-70 Polaroid film, I did use it when scanning this image in of these Trafalgar Square smoochers! But apart from the scan and a slight sharpen, there are no special digital effects here. I used a keyring, a stick and a skewer to get these effects. The photo was taken at around 4.30pm today. No one was actually in the fountain – it’s getting a little too cold for that! I purposely left the sky as it was.
SX-70 Polaroid Manipulation, Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square
Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, London today. This is a polaroid manipulation – using a nailstick I moved the emulsion of the Polaroid around about 15 minutes after exposure.
More Polaroid Manipulations of London
The Number 9 bus chugging along Piccadilly
St Martin-in-the-fields church by Trafalgar Square
The London Eye as never seen before
Millennium Bridge… Van Gogh-like?
This is a photo of the London Millennium Bridge taken with an ancient Polaroid SX-70 camera bought for L7 off eBay. The emulsion stays soft for hours after taking a photo and can be manipulated using sticks or anything sharp that you can find lying around. So there is no Photoshop in this picture.