photos in the valley

I met my friend Alex for lunch at Canter’s yesterday. We talked about bands, music, films, people, and Los Angeles. I’d been thinking about making a trip out to the Salton Sea. Having recently come into the possession of a Polaroid Spectra AF via eBay, for the sweet ass low price of $38, I found myself itching to use it. The Sea seemed like the best bet. An abandoned city on the edge of a dead man made lake, 125 feet below sea level. But then I started thinking about the vagabonds and meth labs that are scattered throughout the area and decided that I shouldn’t go alone.

But I have this camera. And I told him I'd go take some photos and show him. My friend Brian was in town last night and he said I should go, if it felt safe. I'll make it up to you both.

So today I walked around for an hour, and took some photographs.

This is a montage of the Polaroids, laid out in no particular order on my living room floor. I don’t have a scanner so this is a digital photograph (you can see the flash and the light glare from the lamp).
A digital still of the same area in one of the Polaroids.

My hand holding a photo of a Laundromat.