Archive for the ‘Holga’ tag
Dark Forest.
Holga and HP5.
I strangely like this image – aside from it being very dark, it encapsulates the feeling of walking in the woods and coming upon a clearing.
Purposing a time to be purposeless, to wander, to seek out what you don’t know, yes, this is a valuable and necessary time. To eat the locusts and the wild honey, to be tested and to force yourself to become hungry, to admit to faults and imperfections covered over by the business of computers and money and speed – this is the desert, the wilderness. 40 days or 40 years, whatever it may be will be.
The Source of It All.
Holga. Hp5. Waterfall. Red filter. Lots of contrast.
Personally, life has taken a bit of a turn lately. I know I am in the midst of a change of path, as I have left a church I have been a part of for the last seven years. I know its a drop in the bucket versus someone who has been in a church for their lifetime, but their influence on me has left an indelible impression on my spiritual genes. My only regret is… well… I really don’t have any that I can think of at the moment. I will let you know if any come out.
However, I am looking forward to this time without bonds or responsibilities in that sense, and to really see what I am spiritually without all the swirling politics of a church. Back to basics. Please. Panera on Sunday mornings sounds great to me.
Findings.
Shot on HP5 with a Holga, left the roll out in the sun in my car, and kept it loaded in a developing tank for a month… I do bad things to film.
Purposed wanderings yield better prints and expanded minds. If I don’t find what I am supposedly looking for, I am confident that it will find me.
The Gravel Pit
Still one of my favorites to shoot with is a $20 cheapie called a Holga. There’s no way in Photoshop to create the organic-ness of a purely crappy camera. Shot through a red filter, Ilford HP5, and scanned in.
I still love film, no question about it, and the way it works in toy cameras. There are ways to take the lens out of a Holga and strap it onto a digital SLR, but I haven’t been impressed enough with the results to want to do this.
This is a gravel pit in the middle of Quebec’s fishing country. When we passed by it on the way in, I knew I had to make some time get back there to shoot around because the landscape was so surreal. Representing and conveying this weirdness is attempted by shooting a high-resolution film in a low-resolution camera.
It was great being alone up there with just a camera to defend myself from Canadian gypsies or brown bears if they decided to make their presence known. Canada is still one of my favorite places to shoot.