<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9d1ade4f-4d7b-48db-b019-3fd2679ec461/AED3B05B-E73E-4E34-8C4C-D6618F00370B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/readers-photos/" href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/readers-photos/" style="font-size: 11px;">lens.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/readers-photos/"><DIV id="masthead"> <DIV id="Middle1"></DIV> <FORM enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" action="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/sitesearch_selector.html" method="get" name="searchForm" id="searchForm"> <INPUT type="hidden" value="full" name="date_select" /><DIV id="nytSearchWidget"> <LABEL for="searchQuery">Search All NYTimes.com</LABEL><INPUT type="text" name="query" id="searchQuery" /><INPUT type="image" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/global/buttons/go_dark.gif" alt="Search" title="Search" id="searchSubmit" /><INPUT type="hidden" id="searchAll" name="type" value="nyt" /> </DIV> </FORM> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com"><IMG src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/standalone/slideshow/nyt_logo.gif" title="New York Times" alt="New York Times" id="NYTLogo" /></A><DIV id="date"> Saturday, May 30, 2009</DIV> <H1><A href=""></A></H1> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/readers-photos/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/img/A13F0D0F-237F-4E42-B83C-5A0046DF0002" alt="Lens - Photography, Video, and Visual Journalism" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/readers-photos/"><H2 class="entry-title">Readers’ Photos: Polaroid Gallery</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/readers-photos/"><P>At first, we were merely amazed. Hundreds of readers answered <A href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/readers-photos-send-us-your-polaroids/">our request on Tuesday for their Polaroid photographs</A>, in response to an article in The Times about <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/technology/26polaroid.html">efforts afoot in the Netherlands to reinvent instant film.</A> By the time we closed the submission gates on Thursday morning, 932 of your pictures had arrived.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/readers-photos/"><P>Our amazement, however, soon gave way to grateful and respectful astonishment. The quality of the work was even more impressive than the quantity. Lens readers in this hemisphere, in Europe and in Asia showed an imaginative command of the medium. Their work exploited the idiosyncracies of the Polaroid formats, especially the SX-70 films: the square format, the slightly soft-edged rendition, the occasional defects from the developing process, a color palette that paradoxically seemed warmer than normal but also bent a bit toward blues and greens.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AED3B05B-E73E-4E34-8C4C-D6618F00370B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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