" I was walking in the woods one autumn while the leaves were falling. I become absorbed by the different shapes and started playing with them. I soon started seeing "Flying Machines" I used the leaves to make collages of birds, bats and flying insects and used the solaroid technique to make this series of photos where the form of the flying bird or insect is revealed in the shadow. " Paul Williams
Polaroid produced for a short time in the 1990's a very high speed black and white 10x 8 print material with no negative. Paul Williams discovered that if you pulled the Polaroid early the black backing that held a latent picture would solorize. This left a grey negative image against a solid black background. As the backing plastic negative dried crystals built up and Paul Williams started copying these onto 5x4 negative film to create final negative to print from. Paul Williams nicknamed these "Soloroids"
Paul Williams experimented with this technique which he named 'solenoids' and with Polaroid lifts which won him an award in the Polaroid European Photographer Awards.
