This weekend I spent a lot of time at the St. Albert Curd Festival – a festival dedicated to cheese curds? Sweet! I love cheese and I love curds! This week friends said they would be going to the curd fest and I thought, why not?

St. Albert is about 40 minutes from Ottawa and, no surprise, is known for the cheese.

Booths are set up with various local produce and goods.

Some local Alpaca were around to pet – they were so soft and cute!

On Saturday we enjoyed a cheese tasting which included 5 and 6 year old cheese as well as curds and different cheddar cheeses.

On Sunday I went with CH and NM to watch CH’s brother and his band perform. They played some fun upbeat folk music. It was fun to be there with her family.

During the second set, one band member called sets while the others performed. La Ligue du Bonheur put on a good show and it was a great way to end the weekend.

This week at work was very exciting because there was a film crew in town shooting a movie. In the afternoon everyone took a break to watch the filming for a few minutes (see Wordless Wednesday: Movie Madness).

On Wednesday, my friend GSL and I were enjoying lunch over in the park by our office. We were talking and then noticed a guy who looked a lot like Garrett Hedlund walking in the park. Since I was looking at the photos I took from the office window the night before I was pretty sure it was him. Since we were heading back to the building we decided to walk by on our way. We asked if he was Garrett Hedlund, filming in Gatineau and wouldn’t you know, he was!

Garrett (if I may be so bold as to use his first name) was super nice and took the time to chat with us about the movie, Tron and let me take a few portraits with my Holga. I was very excited and glad to get a photo with this lovely actor, it really made my day!

I’m definitely looking forward to getting my next roll of holga film developed!

I apologize for the poor image quality but here are some recent results from my Holga TIM. This graffiti wall I walk past nearly every day. I think it looks great in Holga form.

Bank St.

I love my Holga TIM – read by review here.

For my birthday I got a fab Holga 135 from my sister. Until now I have not posted any results from this fabulous little camera. I must say that I love the Holga 135BC. My early results were right on and it works pretty much like my Holga 120 but just with the 135 film.

All the photos have a great holga feel, with vignettes and soft lens areas. It has a hot shoe and tripod mount which makes it very multipurpose and great for long exposures.

Specs:

- Lens: 47mm, f/8
- Aperture: f/8, f/11
- Shutter speed: B, 1/100, Mutiple Exposure
- Focus range: Adjustable Focusing
- Dimensions: 124×72x83 mm
- Weight: 175 g

Splash!

Fetch.

I really love the lightness and size of the camera. I think this is going to be my summer camera of choice with my Holga TIM.

I would definitely recommend this camera, I think like many cameras it’s great for beginners and more experienced alike. I was really happy with the quality of the images but liked that it still had a holganess to them. Definitely fetch one if you can!

It’s been great to have more time to do some photography and hopefully I will have even more time to focus on my toy photography.

I’ve been loving my Holga TIM and Holga 135 – it’s nice to shoot with 35mm since the cost is so much more affordable, especially in the summer when I just feel like photographing everything in sight!

We’ve been planning a small sliders and ciders party. What is this, might you ask? We made LOTS of sliders and everyone was asked to a bring a side and some cider.

We decided on five flavors:

- The Titan: feta cheese, tomato and tzatziki

- LP’s Mango Chutney: avocado, mango, cilantro and lemon juice

- Mexican Fiesta: Avocado, salsa and sour cream

- LW’s BLT on a chicken burger

- Classic Cheese: cheese slice – the simple classic!

Here are the ladies preparing the Titan with avocado, salsa and sour cream finished.

Here are the finished sliders – yummy if I do say so myself!

Once everything was ready we laid out the spread – DELICIOUS local corn with butter, sliders and all the extra sides for the large burgers.

It was a fun night and ended with us sitting around singing and just having a relaxing night!