I set aside the dried flowers from one our dead geraniums some time ago with the aim of making a photo with my Polaroid Macro 5, whose only rival for the title of “most cumbersome Polaroid camera ever” has to be the 600 SE. But the Macro 5-when it comes to making close-up integral photos-has no peer amongst the Polaroid family . It stands alone.

I finally got around to doing some macro work after outfitting the camera with what the Impossible Project calls a Frog Tongue, a paper-thin sheet of black plastic that shields a photo from light as it ejects from the camera; the Frog Tongue is requisite when shooting Impossible films (even indoors in my estimation) as their engineers work out opacity issues with their films. I’ve put them on all my Polaroids That my efforts in affecting these particular modifications were successful is rather miraculous. A near Impossible Project in and of itself, you might say.

The photo above was the best of the bunch. I’m not a fan of using flash when shooting Polaroids. But when shooting the Macro 5 , you have to. And I do like the light in this photo. But what really strikes me about the image are the textures in this photo, the dry scaly stems and papery feel of the flowers. It has collage feel to it, an apparent dimension.

And those killer reds! They simply rock the house.