The Shed

Back in Jersey. There's a little boating and fishing community in Barnegat Light, and whenever I go back I swing by and check out this little shack by the bay. Hate to keep harping on the focus/blur issue with this camera, but this is one that I think would have looked OK no matter how well the camera performed. Next time, will try and shoot it in color - lots of nice rust, peeling paint.

Summer Fun

I've found that the Holga treats water pretty well, I suppose in part because of the softness generated by the plastic lens. In this case, I was lucky the shutter kept up with the action, though a little blur would have probably worked out well, too.

Bayside, Jersey Shore

There are times when I can't decide whether to stomp on this plastic contraption or swear I'll never use another camera. For all the frustration it gives me - even on this roll, where some images I needed sharp are wobbly - I suppose the pleasure of the Holga is in never knowing what you'll get. There is something about conceiving an image and waiting, letting it take shape in your memory as you await the film to come back from processing, that's very satisfying. More satisfying, though in a different way, than the immediacy of the digital camera.

Crisp and Clear in DC

She was holding up for this roll in DC., this one shot just off the Mall.

What More Can You Ask?

A few weeks of travel here and there - both East and West coasts - resulted in a bunch of interesting stuff, so posting ought to be more frequent in the coming days (like to leave posts up a day or two to let them mellow before moving on...)

This is one of those favorite images. A glass lens might have yielded a sharper image, but for this image I'd rather have this rendering (and no, it's not flipped, just the way the wind was blowing).

Am in the process of adding some Holga-related links, but Blogger has been a little balky, so hope to have that together in the next few days.

Oh, You're Fickle

This first image was shot in Washington, D.C., on a recent trip. Crisp, clear, very un-Holga if you ask me. That said, it's a pleasant surprise. So what am I to think of the next image, shot days later with the same camera, same film type (Fuji Pro 160s) but a different roll? There are a couple black-and-white rolls still to come back from processing, and I'm anxious to see how they fared...

Surfers

Shot this a little over a year ago in La Jolla, before I got over the desire to economize and switched to shoot only 12-exposure (square) images. Another note: all the earlier images, that is those shot up until the last month, were scanned from either proofs or machine prints. I've since switched to having the negs scanned at the time of processing. Means a little photoshop work, but saves trees and means there's no dust from my scanner getting in the way...

An Old Favorite

Posted a while ago on the sister Los Angeles blog, I've always like the texture and motion the Holga captured on the ride home along Sunset Boulevard at dusk.