Let's make it a great one.

Twoku: Reflecting upon / this year's many tragedies / glad for those still here.

Twoku: Sun attempts / to unchill autumn / afternoon.

Twoku: Late autumn / colors gone, change film / black and white.

Twoku: A cold night cannot / stop the costumed children from / begging for candy. (Original version, circa 10/31/2011 -- right after the snowstorm) Well, Halloween is now officially a bittersweet holiday. Sure, it's the birthday of our two Sphynx cats (they're 7 today), and everyone loves to dress up in costumes, but the holiday has now been ravaged twice in two years by "100-year storms" slamming the East Coast and Northeast US.

Twoku:By fountain / a place where the lost / can be found.

My 2.3 year-old grandson Dominic a.k.a. "Dommy" was not with me for his 3rd Christmas (my 64th) but my daughter sent me many photos to enjoy. Of course, they were all super-cute and worthy of adoration, but this one -- Dommy in "Ho Ho Ho" wrapping paper -- made me laugh-out-loud! My favorite thing is how the upside-down paper reads, "Oh Oh Oh" as if he's a (future) troublemaker...

Julien is my other French colleague in NYC for client meetings this week. I brought my Polaroid Big Shot, loaded with discontinued, crazy expensive FP-100c pack-film. We met in a restaurant, where Julien decided to turn the "pack-film-peel-reveal" video into a gender-reveal party... 🙂 Camera: Polaroid BIG SHOT Portrait Camera (circa 1973)Film: FujiFilm FP-100c Color pack-film (Expired 2018)Photographer: Russ Murray / remages Subject: Julien Pichon / Booker (software) Guy 🙂Location: The Smith, New York, NY The Big Shot Reveal Video {coming soon...}

In NYC for an afternoon meeting with colleagues and visit to a client, with my Polaroid Big Shot in a bag, loaded with precious, discontinued, rare (expensive AF!) FP-100c pack-film. My client/frie…

Two family members got engaged after years of being virtual fiancé and fiancée, which -- though long overdue -- demanded a family gathering to celebrate! They brought some new, extended family members we'd never met before: the sister and mother of the fiancé. Of course, there were Polaroids taken, but only two, because were were having so much fun all day... Engaged at last! Subjects: The Engaged Couple / Fiancé's Sister & MotherLocation: Stamford, ConnecticutCamera: Polaroid SX-70 AF (auto-focus) Sonar (vintage)Film: Polaroid SX-70 Color Instant (new)Photographer: Russ Murray

First haiku-senryu style short-poem post in a long time. Original iPhone photo // no edit Subject: Police Car in Rain at Dusk through Raindrops on a Windshield.Location: Stamford, ConnecticutCamera: iPhone 16 Pro MaxFilm: N/A (it's digital, silly!)Photographer: Russ Murray Full post on my Haiku Blog:

This section is a 100% human introduction & musings about ChatGPT 4/5 and the general state of AI… On August 7, 2025, at approximately 9am EST (well, that’s when I looked at it for …

I noticed Melissa as she was being photographed by someone else, standing in front of a seamless paper backdrop lit by a single "softbox" studio light. She seemed friendly, very comfortable in front of a lens, and had a certain style. When the other photographer was done, I told her I appreciated her look and asked if I could take a couple of photographs.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed... No, wait, that was Snoopy launching his career as a great writer with a manual typewriter... 🙂 Actually, IRL... It was a gloomy morning in late May. A Metro North train from Stamford, CT to Grand Central Terminal. An old photographer with a backpack full of cameras and films.

Alex is a "work friend" that became a dear friend over time, whose initials are "AF" which I find endlessly amusing. I've mentioned Alex elsewhere on this site, including my Instant Photography page and a previous post about Polaroid and PolaProjects. He is one of two key people who re-inspired me about instant and other film photography back in 2017-18.

This 2025 edition of the PolaCon NYC event was just like the last two: LOTS of people shooting each other with a wide variety of instant film cameras! As usual, I had a blast capturing portraits of all the interesting and fabulous people there, but it was inevitable that one or two people would pose me in front of the lens, instead of behind it...

As luck would have it, I was in Los Angeles for work and a visit with my son, when I discovered it was Oscars night! After my son flew back to El Salvador from LAX, I was alone in my hotel, so I went up to the rooftop restaurant for dinner to console myself. It was bright, cold and windy, not the warm California sunshine kind of evening you imagine.

When special and/or beloved people visit, they know there’s a good chance I’ll ask to take their portrait with some type of instant or other film camera. But when it’s a holiday w…

Two years after posting about his 30th orbit around the sun, my son is back in town for a visit! Camera: Polaroid BIG SHOT Portrait Camera (circa 1973)Film: FujiFilm FP-100c Color pack-film (Expire…

Portrait of creator, artist, and (soon-to-be) astronaut Rhiannon Adam at PolaCon NYC 2024. I’ve followed Rhiannon’s powerful, insightful, evocative, and thought-provoking work for a few…

Portrait of “woman in purple shades” holding a vintage Mamiya Press Camera, at PolaCon NYC 2024. In this configuration, the Mamiya looks very much like the Polaroid 600SE (or “GOO…

A Polaroid Big Shot portrait of Max (my son) and Boo (my cat) on the floor looking up, using Fuji FP-100c instant, peel-apart, pack-film, expired in 2011. As you can see, though kept cool and/or re…

The second PolaCon NYC event, sponsored by Polaroid, was held from May 17th — 19th, primarily at Worthless Studios in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. I went on Saturday the 1…

Polaroid has gone “super-green” like one of my favorite lines from the movie Fifth Element, when Chris Tucker tells Bruce Willis he understands completely: Or like another favorite exch…