At Night, Arms Raised As if To Fall of Fly, Vintage Polaroid cartoon observed such balloons in flight

observed such balloons in flight

with two mold lines running along the sides of the body of the bottle

and a poem on the other hailing safe return

Pretty curious

At Night, Arms Raised As if To Fall of Fly, Vintage Polaroid cartoon observed such balloons in flightI really love a polaroid photo that both exalts and transcends its nature as a Polaroid. Here the horizontal orientation is just right, with the wider left border and narrow one below making the figure with spread arms, shot from a bit below, seem all the more as if perched high on a ledge, about to either plummet or take flight. With just the end of the day's light behind him, casting him in silhouette and making for a dramatic and very filmic sort