Many blessings and good wishes to you and yours at this Easter time!

My wonderful Holga 135BC joined me in Vienna this year. It has quickly become my favorite 35mm toy camera and has been accompanying me on my project 24 days 24 photos over at toy camera dot com. (All are welcome to join this collaborative project – all you need is a film camera and the will to take one photo every day for 24 days.)

I had fun testing it out in the city where (arguably) Holga first gained popularity.

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When we met Garrett Hedlund he let me take a couple portraits with my Holga 135BC. They definitely have a holga feel to them.

I took the Holga out around the office and got this picture of a performer at the farmers market.

This is one of my favorite pieces of local graffiti. I have photographed it digitally before but I really prefer the Holga version.

I really love the lens on my Holga 135BC and the accuracy I’ve enjoyed with all the settings.

Here are the old boots, again I like them a lot better in Holga form.

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!

Hello Blog Readers,

I apologize for my absence but my work life has taken over my life and I’ve been pretty busy. Hopefully, I will be back to my regular blogging schedule.

So the Holgapalooza poster and website have been launched and I’m very excited to get shooting! All the themes are interesting to me and the prizes are awesome!

Check out the poster here:

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In other news, I’ve had a lot of feedback and emails regarding my cakes. I’m very flattered! Unfortunately, with my current state of busy-ness I haven’t done any cakes recently. I do look forward to doing some soon!

Soccer is taking over my life – I play 3 days a week and with the World Cup starting this Friday and going to see Toronto FC soon my love of soccer only grows! Who knew I could love a team sport so much?

I will have some photography projects coming up and look forward to old friends visiting next month and my 5 year wedding anniversary. I hope to have some interesting stuff to share with you soon!

Just wanted to let you know that my toy camera review on the Holga TIM is now posted on toy camera dot com. It includes some pros/cons, details about the camera and some examples.

I hope you like it!

Last week I was using a new Holga and like with all my cameras I took a photo of Lily on the first roll. Now, this particular time she did not want to cooperate with me and decided to pout. So here is a picture of Lily being annoyed with me…and people say animals don’t have feelings…

more to come…

I’ve been keeping busy with my photography which has been really enjoyable – I’ve been just loving my gakkenflex and caught Lily is a cute yawn that I just had to share! (This is a photograph of a negative which is why it looks a bit strange.)

Details of this project to follow. I’m also warming up the Holgas for some intensive photo sessions for this year’s Holgapalooza! I can’t wait!

As I mentioned in my last Holga entry I made a little lens cap reminder to help me remember to remove the lens cap. I’ve been shooting a lot with my Holga recently and forgetting my lens cap is something I’ve done ever now and again.

When you look through the view finder this is what you see

This week I’ve started organizing my office and thanks to T.B. I will have a lovely new shelf in it. The shelf has several boxes so I can have most of my material and books visible. This is great as I can also have the cameras I’m using out and ready to go. It will be really nice to be able to store all my photo albums and negatives in one place.

Now that I’m getting into my favorite film time of year I think it will be really great to be better organized and have a space that I can clean and prep my cameras in.