Two Holgaroid images from my trip to the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs in June of this year.
Click here to read my previous entry on my trip to this fantastic hotel.
Category: Holgaroid
Happy 100th Birthday Santa Monica Pier.
My hope is that the images I have shot and will continue to shoot will pay tribute to a place that I love and hold close to my heart.
Santa Monica Pier images for sale on my Etsy site – click here.
See the images on Flick here.
Don’t you wish you could always have with you a little piece of home?
With Kolo’s Essex Album customized by me you can.
Santa Monica, my hometown, has many iconic landmarks and I’ve included some of them in this lovely journal.
The Santa Monica Carousel and Ferris Wheel
Station 26 Lifeguard station
Vintage postcards of Santa Monica
A vintage map of Santa Monica from 1940
A glassine envelope where you can add a Santa Monica bus token or some other trinket
The rest of it is for YOU to fill out yourself with what you consider to be your personal little pieces of home.
The journal can also be additionally customized by adding a 2010 calendar (standard or accordion-style) or an address book.
Click here to purchase this beautiful little book.
Size of book – 5×5″ x 3.6″
Each book has two inserts – photo sleeves (one already filled with an image) and
a blank journal insert which includes a glassine envelope. The address book or calendar can also be added for an additional fee.
There is also a pocket in the back of the book
My good friend and fellow photographer, Laurie Bailey, came back from this hotel a couple of weeks ago and told me immediately that I had to go there myself. I went to their website and I was hooked!
The Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs was a former Howard Johnson that had fallen into disrepair. It reopened as the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in February of this year.
I don’t consider myself the queen of hip but I immediately felt at home in this hotel — from the record player in your room, the vintage-looking bikes you can ride and the old GMC van near the swimming pool (I looked for a choke inside the van but alas there wasn’t one, my Dad’s 1969 Ford van had one).
When you hang out in the pool or eat in their great restaurant you hear Bill Withers, Johhny Cash and Nick Drake over their sound system. There is also a real and I mean real photo booth in their lobby (which I went a little crazy with since it takes credit cards). I mean you just can’t beat it.
I asked hotel management if I could photograph their hotel and they immediately said yes. So I brought every camera I own and every type of film I had in my fridge and shot away. I even shot a roll of (don’t freak out people)……Kodachrome film and used a pack of my very precious Polaroid Viva Type 80 film with my Holgaroid.
I will definitely be going back there some time this summer to shoot more.
One of my absolutely favorite style blogs is {frolic!} created and written by photo stylist/floral designer extraordinaire Chelsea Fuss. Chelsea wrote today about my Holgaroid work, wedding photography and Etsy store. I feel so honored to be a part of her blog and look forward to reading it every day.
Click here to view the blog entry.
As many of you know I’m working on a Santa Monica project. I went to my favorite lifeguard station yesterday, Station 26, but realized once I got there that I forgot a necessary piece of equipment to shoot it TTV. So instead I whipped out my Holgaroid camera and shot this image.
Being on that beach yesterday morning at 8:30 am reminded me so much of hanging out at the beach with my Dad while he surfed the waves. It brought me right back to being 8 years old.
I came home yesterday and anxiously went to my computer to see if this film was still available on Polapremium. Much to my disappointment it is not and I have only one more pack of this film.
This image will eventually be available on my Etsy site.