Stella + the Holga
Here's another Holga picture: Stella out on the lawn across the street earlier this summer, taken just before sunset.
If you click on the picture, you'll see another picture of her out on the porch at the neighborhood pub.
The monitor (and/or maybe the scanner) adds an extra layer of unpredictability to the Holgafication process.
Excellent!
Labels:
dogs,
holga pics,
random photos
8 comments:
I agree! I want a Holga now!
And a puppy.
She is so great! (Stella, I mean.) My favorite, favorite thing about the internet is how it enables me to ogle and even slightly objectify other people's pets, all while snuggling and petting my own (when he is so inclined; right now he is inclined to sit on a specially built window ledge in a patch of sun with his eyes closed and his smile deep, simultaneously listening to classical music indoors and the humming of bugs out the window).
I always get Holgas mixed up in my head with Lomos. These in particular have always intrigued me.
glad you enjoy Miss Stella -- she's a great dog. I'm a big fan of Zeke's also (at Creek Running North), and of course Bert & Zippy over at Twisty's.
And yeah, the Holga is but one type of Lomo camera. I want one of every kind. They are way fun!
All of these pictures have the look of being older than they are. They remind me of Found Magazine photos, or items from The Abandoned Photo Museum. It's like they're born old, damaged, and even lost.
As you said, fun.
Yeah, Sara, I love those sites. There's another one that I found a while back, and then the guy had some bandwidth problems & the site was down for a while & I lost the link. What he did, though, was buy old cameras with film still in them, and old/or exposed film, and then develop the film. They were amazing. I wish I could find the site or remember the guy's name. Anybody?
Found it! Check this out, if you haven't seen it: http://westfordcomp.com/updated/found.htm
Oh, no, I had not seen those.
And of course they reminded me of yet another cool photo site. I don't remember where I found this link; it might even have been Salon.com, but if you haven't seen them, check out:
Mirrors. Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937.
found and printed by Bruce Jackson
8/19/2004
I will be using some of these faces as reference material for a series of allegorical pictures I've been working on and not working on, on and off for what feels like forever. The ones I find most interesting, though, are the women, anthropologically/sociologically, as well as psychologically and aesthetically. (I'm not sure that makes sense, but maybe you'll know what I mean.)
Oh, and by the way, in case it wasn't implied, thank you for that link. (Mercury is still retrograde 'til the 28th, and I am hanging on to that fact for dear life and to excuse all sorts of lapses. Your patience, at least until another celestial-grade excuse shows up, is appreciated.)
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