in my room

1. A product list of the Santa Maria Novella pharmacy in Florence; postcards from Bath, Bologna and San Marino.
2. My grandmother's jewelry box and little purple paper boxes from Anna.
3. My closet, where I took the doors out and installed a curtain rod and a sheer curtain instead.
4. A close up of the camera collection, with some help from Mario and Martha.
5. Polaroids from our adventures around the world.
6. The Kurt Halsey poster (which I love) from David (who I love even more).

english polaroids

even though i brought a polaroid camera with me during my travels, i hardly took any photos. to me, polaroids are like gold, so it sort of distresses me if i take a lot of them. hence, i only really have two of oxford and two of london. when i decide that i take a polaroid of something, it takes me a good 5 minutes to compose the picture in my head and when and only when i think the picture will come out perfectly, i snap the photo. one thing i really need to accept is that the beauty of polaroids is the fact that you can't change them. without editing and multiple takes, you really only have once chance. they come out the way they do, and with all the "imperfections" they have, they're actually quite perfect.

clockwise from top left: oxford punts, the oxford university corpus christi college library, david with the thames and the london eye, and big ben.

english polaroids

1. stonehenge

2. a little bridge in salisbury

3. sally lunn tea and a bun with jam and clotting cream, bath

i'm pretty reserved when i take polaroids

because i'm so aware of how expensive the film is

the end result being that i have no polaroids of one place

or only one or two.

i'm hoping to be a little more carefree with oxford.