Holga-land!

So, I have taken (almost) a total of 4 rolls of 120 film with my most fun and creativity-inspiring Christmas gift to myself: a Holga 120N plastic lens camera. I say "almost" because, upon receiving the link to my most recently uploaded pictures (I haven't even received the negatives yet), and after suspecting such even before I'd sent the film off, I took about half of one black and white roll with the lens cap on. I'm an idiot. What can I say. But, the other half of the pictures turned out pretty well!

Here are some samples from the first roll:

Shelby plays a tune

The twins arrive at the bonfire festivities!

Drunk bitches

Liddell's a badass.

The theme of the new year

Playin with fire

Sparkler phenomena

Split image.

Pyromaniac

Uncle Seth and Shelby

Pre-fire dancing.

These were all taken at our New Years Day bonfire, after drunkenly trying to figure out how to get film in and how to set everything up, etc. Well, I unknowingly set the exposure number to 16 whilst leaving in the larger frame guard, thereby creating the strange overlap scenario I got in a lot of the pictures. This is one thing I learned from my first Holga shoot. I also got to see what sort of capabilities the Holga hot-shoe flash had. Not the most sophisticated machinery, but that's the joy of the Holga. The beauty is in the imperfection.

My second roll of film is still yet to be digitized. Also, I was taking the pictures by another bonfire with my parents, and the back fell off for a minute or two until I actually noticed, messing up several images. Luckily, it was REAL dark, so I didn't lose the entire roll of film. Whenever I figure out how to get the film scanned (either by buying a scanner or sending it off or something), I'll show the few that are good enough to do so.

The third roll was my second black and white, and the roll during which I had my lens closed. The images I do have were taken on my bike route in Summerland. Pretty nice scenery, if I do say so myself...

Hay bales and creepy cross

Cattle crossing

A home made of branches

Cow + Water tank

Yard art

That last one was actually taken at Hand's nursery... I messed up on the focus, but again with the imperfections.

Final roll: taken around the house, playing with Fanny, etc.

Failed attempt at self-portraiture

Dad's tools + woodshed

House at night + attempted "HOME" in flashlight

Daffodil and something...

Lattice and ladder

Fanny in the water

Beaver dam (long exposure)

Probably an attempt at yet another multiple exposure gone sour

I had some trouble with this roll. Maybe because I was trying to use my bulb setting and the shutter release kept getting stuck. Just a theory... Boo on shutter release malfunctions! But I think I have the seemingly simple apparatus figured out a little better now. We shall see.


So that's it for the toy camera pics. In other news, I just found out I was accepted into MSU's College of Veterinary Medicine! Woohoo! Yes, I'm excited, but yes, I am also combating the nightmares I've been having associated with enduring (at least) 4 more years of school. Seriously. I had a dream that I tried to ultrasound a dog's abdomen and all I saw was Kanye West singing some depraved song with a bunch of Russian dancers all around him. But, I'll make it through the dreams AND the schooling. And I'll be a vet when I get done! THAT's exciting.



Happy Beginning of the Week to you all!