holga lovin wednesdays

Recently Miranda bought her first Holga…I’ve finally gotten her hooked! And now I have a holga buddy. =0) From what I’ve heard she’s only shot one roll, but from what I’ve seen she has some really cool results. This week she leaves for a trip to Greece and Turkey, and then when she gets back she’s traveling CA and hitting up Yosemite w/ some friends of ours. All of this will be awesome and will also make for fantastic holga shooting. I am super jealous of these big plans. I have shot two and a half rolls this year and have gotten some encouraging results. I plan to shoot a ton of baby pics once he comes in May. I’ve seen some really amazing work on the web of shots people took of their kids and I’m anxious to try it out.

Last week Miranda started Holga Wednesdays on her blog and I liked the idea enough to join her. So we’ll both be posting recent/archived holga shots every Wednesday. This weeks shot is again back from October during our trip to Chicago. Miranda’s blog is centered around completeing the 101 Things to Do before you Die. One of the things on the list is go to the top of the tallest buildings. So we spent a day in Chicago at the Sears/Willis Tower. The new Ledge on the Sky Deck was open so that we could walk into a plastic box extending out from the building and look 1353 feet down on to South Wacker Drive. It was definitely a strange feeling walking out on to that piece of plastic. Makes your knees turn to jelly, but worth all the photo opportunities. This was one of my faves of my hand on the bottom of the box, below it you can make out the square roof tops of the surrounding buildings. If you peer down between the roof tops you can make out a tiny amount of the street below.

In other Holga news, I was browsing toycamera.com’s forum and found a sneak peak at Light Leaks issue 17. The second page of the sneak peak shows the advertisement for Holgapalooza 2010. Only three themes this year but they’re kinda exciting. Creatures, Road Side Attractions, and Nudes. Nudes could be totally cool in holga form. I’m anxious to see what might be out there and kinda wish I were on the inside to see what all was submitted. I’m not sure I’ll be taking any nude photos, not sure where I could get them developed, but I can appreciate a tastefully taken photograph and find the idea intriguing.

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