A Special Piece of Snail Mail

It's nice to come home after a long day at work, open up the mailbox to retrieve the day's deliveries, and find a little something special waiting there. A white, nondescript box with a return address of For the Love of Light. It was vaguely familiar . . .

I'd pre-ordered this book after reading one of The Dailies over at DFM, this one featuring Polaroid luminary Jen Tauritz Gotch. From Jen's blog, I learned about For the Love of Light, to which she is a contributing artist. It's been about two months so I'd completely forgotten about it until it arrived today, so I suppose having a selective memory is sometimes a good thing!


It's a beautiful little book, created by editor and fellow photographer Jenifer Altman, along with 24 other featured artists paying tribute to their love of Polaroid. It came sealed with care in a lovely vellum envelope, and included a print of one of the Polaroid shots from the book, also carefully tucked into cool crisp vellum. Details, details, it's all in the details!


The images are beautiful, all including a healthy dose of that gossamer tincture only found in Polaroids. It's not hard to want to jump on the bandwagon and capture as much of this magic as possible, keeping it safe and sound.

Thanks to Jen Altman, Jen Gotch, and all the other artists for their work on this compilation. You can get yours here.

As as aside, I'm kind of in the weeds again and the days are running together, but I WILL be back to daily posting soon. ☺ Thanks for hanging in there with me!

[images © Jenifer Altman and fortheloveoflight.com]