Ever heard of a Holga? I hadn't until about two years ago, when the world of Lomography was introduced to me merely by chance when searching for something on Amazon.com. Since I don't want to duplicate posts, read my personal blog if you want to know more about Holgas:
Anyway, the above photo was one from the first roll of film I shot with a Holga. After he viewed the resulting slide show, one of the comments I got from a high school friend was:
"I liked the slide show, all very cool pics, the train pics almost look depression era, except the locomotive is a bit too new."
If the Holga does anything well, it's paying homage to The Depression! It's a great camera to release yourself from the world of editing your shots and placing you smack dab in the world of just taking pictures. What freedom!
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By golly, Kurt, I think you are onto something here with this Holga phenomenon. (Or are you on something?) At any rate, flood the screeners at Railputz. Who knows, one of them might appreciate something other than the absolutely mind numbing page after page of toaster ovens on their site!
ReplyDeleteThis is no toy you play with! After all a Holga photograph by David Burnett (an award winning photographer) of former vice-president Al Gore during a campaign appearance earned a top prize in a 2001 White House News Photographers' Association Eyes of History award ceremony!