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!

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!

So Holgapalooza is on! The themes and judges have been announced and the website will be updated soon according to information in the toycamera forum. You can check out the winners of 2009 on the website now. I had such a great time entering last year and I’ve already started thinking about this years themes and what I might want to photograph for the contest.

Creatures: a broad theme but I think will yield lots of great entries…now it’s to come up with something original, unique and fun and then capture it! Also if I think creatures, animals, then it’s how to get your creature to cooperate with you!

Roadside Attractions: this theme is really peaking my interest and I’ve started to think about places I’ve wanted to stop and never have…stay tuned!

Nudes: Okay, so I haven’t worked with nudes since university but I think if I can find a model/models I would definitely like to enter something. I always found nudes hard because of the fine line between cliché and crossing over into boudoir – what hasn’t been done or what can I do in a new way? I guess first I have to find a model and then see where my ideas take me.

I like having the themes in advance because it creates goals for me in terms of my photography. All that to say, stay tuned for my thoughts and ideas!