Park up.
I was going through my archives and realised that I never posted this photograph. It was taken in the multi-storey car park at Edinburgh Airport in the spring of 2006, very shortly after that car park was built, a quick shot with an old folding Polaroid packfilm camera (shot on Type 667, if you’re interested in such details).
I have a couple of those cameras lying around, to one of which I applied a very rough conversion to use modern batteries. The other is half-awaiting a more refined version of the same procedure.
I did go back and try to duplicate the shot with a ‘real’ camera (my wife’s 6×6 Bronica, if you must know), and I believe it’s one of a set of negatives that’s been waiting to be scanned ever since. Next time I get the scanner out I’ll have to find them.
November 26th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Very like a scene from the Holywood Exchange Ikea ground floor car park
November 26th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
You’re right!
Might have to head down there with a camera. Car parks can make for architectural fun.
November 27th, 2008 at 11:31 am
There’s something seedily appealing about the aesthetics of multi-storey car parks, isn’t there? I used to like Altos restaurant/cafe in Fountain Street for its determinedly unglamorous brushed concrete flooring, though it did mean I kept expecting to see a drug deal being carried out in the corner near the ticket pay machine.