Photos tagged with “Polaroid195”

Russian Warship Go Fuck Yourself

These are fishing boats, not warships. I couldn't get close enough to the warships docked at nearby Earle Naval Weapons Station. So these will have to stand in for the Missile Cruiser Moskva that attacked Zmiinyi (Snake) Island. The defenders of Snake Island responded appropriately when asked to surrender.

Ukraine famously followed up this suggestion with a cruise missile attack to ensure that the Russian Warship did indeed go fuck itself right to the bottom of the Black Sea.

You can buy a postage stamp commemorating the bravery of the guardians of Snake Island at the Ukrposhta philately site at http://pm.ukrposhta.ua/nishop.php . Alternately, you can go to Volstamp's English language site at https://volstamp.in.ua/en and spend way more (like, waaaay more) but actually understand the purchasing process.

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Wed Apr 27 2022

Missile No. 2

Russia has been at war with Ukraine for eight years. We just started paying attention two months ago.

Russia has been at war with the entire west for about that long as well. We still haven't noticed. Their weapons are non-conventional. They're bots on Twitter and hackers who phish political operatives. Дональд Трамп was a guided missile aimed directly at the fissures in US society. Brexit was a guided missile aimed directly at the fissures in UK society. Their purpose was to destroy NATO and the EU, and they've made big strides in that direction. It will take us decades to repair the damage caused by those missiles.

It's time to return the favor.

I am a pacifist by and large, and a small d democrat. I don't like weapons. But when a totalitarian fascist dictatorship attacks you, you have to fight back. When said dictatorship announces that its aim is to erase an entire nationality from the map, that's genocide. There is no pacifist solution to genocide, no compromise position. "Never again" we said after the Holocaust. And after Cambodia. And after Rwanda. And after Darfur, Sudan. And after the Rohingya in Myanmar. Right now, the battlefield is in Ukraine, but this is the World's war. Ukraine needs heavy weaponry; tanks, armored personnel carriers, missile defense systems, and missiles. Ukraine is starting to get some of what they need, but they need more. You can contact your representatives and ask them to support increased military aid to Ukraine. Also, the National Bank of Ukraine has set up a special account that you can send money to to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces. You can find that at https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

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Mon Apr 25 2022

Missile No. 1

Ukraine needs missiles.

Russia is using missiles on Ukrainian cities. Last weekend, Odesa was hit with a missile attack that killed a 3 month old baby. Russia is trying to erase Ukraine from the world, and it is using missiles to do it. Russian missiles being used last weekend, which was Orthodox Easter, had the words "Christ is Risen" written on them. Ukraine needs to fight back. They need missile defense systems. They also need missiles to attack the Orcs invading their country. It was a Ukrainian missile that took down the Moskva.

This is a Nike missile at Sandy Hook National Recreation Area. Sandy Hook and the surrounding area in Monmouth County, New Jersey, was home to many of these missiles. They are obsolete and have all been decommissioned.

With the shift from the north to the east, the geography of the battle has changed. The tactics that worked brilliantly in the Battle of Kyiv won't work in the Battle of Donbas. Ukraine needs heavy weaponry; tanks, armored personnel carriers, missile defense systems, and missiles. Ukraine is starting to get some of what they need, but they need more. You can contact your representatives and ask them to support increased military aid to Ukraine. Also, the National Bank of Ukraine has set up a special account that you can send money to to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces. You can find that at https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

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Mon Apr 25 2022

Flag

When I look at my ancestry, I'm a lot of things, but of the things I am, the thing I am the most is Ukrainian. My grandmother was born there. My grandfather's father was ethnically Ukrainian from an area that's now Poland. We were very close to that side of the family when I was growing up.

My photography has felt trivial lately. I have been obsessed with the war. So when it came time for Polaroid Week, I wanted to do something different. First I tried shooting things that were blue and yellow (the colors of Ukraine's flag). Some cookies I bought. The tryzub sticker on my car. Old boxes of Polaroid film (the Paul Giambarba boxes of 669 had a yellow-ish wrapper). Those photos didn't work.

Then I remembered that Polaroid had yellow film. And blue film.

If you go to the Polaroid site, they're out of the Yellow 600 film. But it was made recently enough that places like B&H still had some. So I got some. The integral Blue 600 film hasn't been made in a few years. But in my stash, I still had one pack of Polaroid 100 Blue pack film.

This is what I did with one underexposed shot from that pack of Blue that I shot with my Polaroid 195 Land Camera. I shot a pure white background with my SLR 680 and paired it with the nearly solid shot of Blue, and you get a Ukrainian flag from that.

Ukraine needs help. Razom for Ukraine is a reputable charity that started when Ukrainian-Americans wanted to help Ukraine during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. They send humanitarian aid to Ukraine, including medicine, hospital supplies, and communications equipment. You can find them at https://razomforukraine.org/ .

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Sun Apr 24 2022