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Lunch with Katie /  by Suzanne Price

Today I am a busy little editing bee, but I took some time out to spend  lunch hour with my friend Katie. We chatted over our coffees and yummy eats at Bon Bon Bakery, and then took advantage of the glorious sunshine and strolled over to Unique Thrift for a little wardrobe shopping for tomorrow's shoot. It was there that Katie spotted this glorious, well worn leather purse, and promptly snatched it up.

"Why am I more excited for an old purse that costs four dollars then shopping at expensive boutiques?" The searching. The finding. The fact that there is only one item with this story. It's something to be cherished. Friendship is a little like that. We find each other through circumstance, or proximity, or coincidence. We devote ourselves to one another despite of and because of the little quirks, imperfections, and wabisabi-like beauty that is so inherent in humanity. And best of all, friendship is free!  

It's something to be cherished.

Both photos Impossible Project's PX-70 Color Protection Film

Everything is Impossible /  by Suzanne Price

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I thank my lucky stars everyday for the Impossible Project. For those of you who may not know, the Impossible Project is a company who saved the last surviving Polaroid film production plant and has since 2008 been creating new instant films for our old Polaroid cameras. 

I own two SX-70 Polaroid cameras, one of which I purchased this year at Cleveland's own  Aperture Photography & Variety Store.  Shooting analog slows me down in the best possible way, from opening the camera, to composition, to finally excitedly pressing the shutter, not to mention the special reward of the sound of a yet dim photograph exiting through the rollers and into my finger tips. It's tactile, exciting, and a heaping helping of trial and error. Here are a few of my favorites from the last month or so.