After my not-terribly-successful studio shoot on Saturday, I ditched town again for Santa Barbara (sensing a trend?) and went down to Leadbetter beach with Say to do some random Polaroid and pinhole camera experimenting. I got weird armpit sunburns from the spots I missed when dousing myself with sunscreen, I got hit by a wave while taking a picture of some kids in a rubber boat with my Crown Graphic, and got more sand in my tripod than I'd like to think about, but it was a very good lesson in kamikaze on-location Polaroid image transfers. I discovered that Polaroid Type 59 does weird peely things in the darker areas when you try to transfer it to Epson inkjet paper, and no, soaking the paper in sea water first doesn't help. I also learned that Polaroid Pro 100 is vastly underrated. I didn't ever get a decent transfer, but I kinda like what I ended up with anyway. They look kind of like weird little watercolors.

Incidentally, it was also graduation weekend at UCSB. You could almost feel the tension watching all the recent grads waiting for their parents to get tired and go back to the hotel so they could go out and get drunk and party like UCSB students.