Blue Skies

There were plenty of wispy clouds in Barcelona earlier this month, and as always there was no expectation of how the Holga would render them. I was pretty lucky this trip, the camera managed to stay pretty steady and most of the images were sharp and clear.

Windswept

The texture of the images captured by the plastic lens remind me of photos from the early days of photography - they're soft and subtle and imprecise. This was taken in Cadaques, a small town in Spain about an hour and a half north of Barcelona that was home to Salvador Dali. The little red and white thing attached to the pole in the foreground was a piece of cloth or tape that was blowing in the wind. I'd hoped the SUV that appears to be cresting the hill would appear more imposing, but it still works for me.

The Crawl

The beach offers a lot of opportunity with the Holga - the softness of the sand and water coupled with the soft focus of the plastic lens. This horseshoe crab was scampering across the beach in front of me and, since they are usually only on the beach in their deceased state, I was lucky to capture it.

First Out

So what to lead with? There was a color shot taken early on that made me fall back in love with the texture of film, a richness that the Holga was able to capture far better (at least without Photoshop skills much better than my own) than a digital SLR. But most of the stuff I've shot has been in black and white, and the L.A. images are at the other site, so I start off with this one, taken in late December 2007 in Big Sky, Montana.

SOP

I've been shooting images with a Holga for the last two years, many of them posted over at Random Images, a Los Angeles-centric photo blog. Because I limited that one geographically, there are a lot of images taken elsewhere in the States and abroad that languish in a drawer. And so I thought I'd air them out a bit. There will be some overlap between the two sites, but the differences will be great enough that this site will stay pretty fresh.