Introduction

Liverpool + Polaroids = liverpoolaroids

You wah?
Y'know, Polaroids - those funny instant photos that develop before your eyes. This is a site dedicated to Polaroid photography of Liverpool and surrounding areas.

Liverpoolaroids encompasses a blog (this site!) whereby news and featured photos are published, and a Flickr group for discussion and the relatively painless amalgamation of photos by all who wish to contribute.

Aren't Polaroids obsolete?
None moreso than vinyl. Admittedly most people's experience of Polaroid photography even long before the digital revolution was usually either a memento of their visit to Santa's grotto or a misguided attempt at homemade smut but even today in this world of camera phones and SLRs that are so advanced that they do the dishes Polaroids live on with a dedicated following.

But why bother?
Digital cameras are great, we don't deny that, but don't you sometimes miss the simpler, more spontaneous film based photography you've left behind? Cameras that were point & shoot not a series of menus and settings; cameras where your eyes directly helped compose the shot rather than instead watching a viewscreen while computer wizardry automatically corrects and compensates. In a manner of speaking Polaroid offers the best of both worlds - the blissful lo-fi simplicity of 35mm with digital's instant results that don't require film processing. Sure, they may have to be scanned to end up here but nevertheless nothing beats that satisfaction of having a Polaroid develop before your eyes to share and enjoy in your hands a couple of minutes after it was taken.

So yeah, here at liverpoolaroids we're taking a refreshing step back from all the megapixels, super zoom lenses and Photoshop post-production hoo-hah associated with digital photography. Polaroids may indeed seem a dead medium to most but to us what they may lack in image quality and size is made up in charm and purity. We're talking photos with personality; true vignettes of a unique city.

Liverpool is far from ordinary. The same can be said of Polaroids. A fitting union you could say? We hope to convince you as much...