For Members ONLY -Purchase an 8x10 Polaroid from of Poolside

Happy New Year! Here is your Welcome 2012 Special Deal - Original Polaroid Prints of the Poolside Series. You can have the original but I do retain reproduction rights of the image. These are one of a kind and not available to the general public. Images are the original 809 Polaroid Film images. They are the RAW photographs with all the personality of what makes a Polaroid special. Once the image is sold it is gone and only Digital Reproductions would be available. This exciting deal ends on Jan. 6th.
Go to Maritagooteephotographer.com to order.

Become a member of Marita Gootee Fine Art Photographer on Facebook and learn how you can get this great deal too - here are some sample images below.

Heidi Robinson is Published!

Heidi Robinson has had two of her recent images accepted in a daily calendar project titled POLADARIUM 2012. This was conceived by a German Company. So she is internationally published!! How Cool is that!! Editors are: Lars Harmsen is designer and publicist, editor of slanted magazine and weblog, Member of ADC and Raban Ruddigkeit is designer and editor, especially the founder of »Freistil – Best Of European Commercial Illustration«. He is member of ADC and boardmember of CREATE BERLIN. It is published by Seltmann+Sohne.

Format: 88 x 107 mm, 365 polaroids, 368 pages (only sx70 / 600!)

Another project Heidi has been asked to be involved with Polaboy from Lightboys. The company out of Germany has developed a one meter high luminous Polaroid frame. It is made of a high quality white wood for the picture frame in a SX70 1:10 format. In this frame they backlight the scanned original Polaroids (80 x 80cm / about 230MB ) and expose it on a special slide film material. 


Must admit from the website these are enchanting! I want one!! 

Poolside Film and Camera

I thought I would share with you a shot of my last box of Polaroid 809 film and the camera that I used to make the POOLSIDE series.

As you can see each box held 15 exposures which is a combination of 15 negatives and 15 paper / pods for the negative to be transferred too. I hope the Impossible Project will come out with the 8x10 version of this before the end of the year. Note that I added the 85A filter - you can tell by the fancy tape job. 

This is the camera I used to make all my POOLSIDE series. It was created by Eric Renner the Director of the Pinhole Resource. It is called Leonardo. This is the best large format pinhole camera that I know. I have tired others but always come back to this one.

So now you know some of the basic elements that I used to create the POOLSIDE series. Each exposure was about 2 minutes. This series is available for exhibition and monographs can be found on Blurb [search Gootee].

Reflections on POOLSIDE Large.

These are images were taken by the Gallery Director of the installation of POOLSIDE that was exhibited at ARTPRIZE: International Exhibition, Kendall College and Design, Grand Rapids. 9/22-10/14. The original 8x10 Pinhole Polaroid was scanned to 37x48. It took 3 full days of retouching to clean up all the particles of dust and uneven development that is natural in the Polaroid process. I had them digitally enlarged, mounted and then placed in a black wood floater frame by Metroframe. The images are impressive at that scale. At the present I have only 6 images but any of the POOLSIDE series images can be enlarged if I have the original print in the collection.


These are available for exhibition and purchase.

It all started with a pool toy.

My POOLSIDE series all started with seeing a child's pool toy floating across. The reflection of the eye in the chrome hand bar just called on me to capture it on film. I used Polaroid 809 film using an 8x10 camera. The exposure was two minutes long. Since that day I have shot a huge amount of images of pool floats in that same pool on instant film and black &white negative film. Recently I stated using a small digital camera under the water's surface to push the view point further.

Welcome to my blog. I hope to share ideas and to learn new things from you. Photography is very serious but without an element of play it would not be nearly as creative and inventive.