Saturday, July 15, 2023

 

 The Nine Dollar Holga makes another appearance- this time at a local Blake's.

I succumbed to Amazon Prime day and bought a cheap 35mm mask adapter thing for the Holga. It works well and the sticker included for the winding sequence was worth the price.

I wish the mask allowed for sprocket exposure, and I may get the dremel tool out for some modification because otherwise this kind of shooting is not very appealing to me.

At any rate, the Nine Dollar Holga is alive and well!

Stay cool!

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Intervening Light Leaks


Holgas are notorious for having light leaks. It's part of their charm or frustration in use.

This particular light leak seems appropriate for the subject. 

You just never know how or when or why sometimes.....

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Apparently, Some Trees have Stylists..


 Someplace west of Amarillo, on a windy plain, this tree has made the best of being here.

It's got a sculptural vibe going on. 

Nine Dollar Holga with HP5 dunked in caffenol.

Monday, April 4, 2022

Pete's...all gone!


 Ever since I moved here, which is going on nineteen years now, I've been driving over to Moriarty to make a photo of this place.  It's (was) a hole of a dive kind of place and a few weeks ago they scraped it off the Earth. I watched them do it. It was sad in a way, but the building was dangerous and down right ratty.

It's gone now! The trees are still there, but I need to go check on them and see if they really left them alone.

 


Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Roadrunner


 It's been a long time since I've been here, but I'm still using the nine dollar Holga. The price of film keeps going up, but I have a good stash so far and plan to keep using film as long as it's being made and doesn't make me bankrupt.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021


 Portals are everywhere. Some lead to mountains.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

2021..the year of blogging more...doubtful

 

 

2021 is here! Finally, and I wanted to begin by saying there are no promises that I will change my ways and be more attentive to this blog.  

It's not because I don't like to, it's because, well I don't really know. I still write in my journal everyday, and just ordered a fancy hand made rustic leather journal from the UK that might get here by the first of March. 

Blogging just has a certain amount of disconnection to me. When I blog I self edit, and honestly I don't like that. We present ourselves a bit different online that we truly are, and when I write in my journal, I let it rip. 

Maybe it's just time to let it rip online. We'll see.

In the meantime here's a Holga photo I made at the Rio Puerco bridge on old Route 66 in Laguna, New Mexico at the very end of last year. The lens was flipped because we had a flipped out year.

I'm looking forward to 2021.

Happy New Year everyone.