Holga-y Cow!

I've never considered myself to be much of a photographer at all. I took a photography class once (pre-digital) and discovered quickly it's not my bag. I couldn't stand fumbling around in the dark room and I found the smell of the chemicals nauseating. However, I found that some of the little tricks and manipulations that can produce different effects in photos to be at least a little interesting. Flash forward to now and the digi age of photography. I still don't find myself going much further than simple point and shoot. Again, I don't feel like I have the eye for it so why bother? But within the last year, I've found myself thinking all of these "Lomo" pics are really interesting to me. I just really kind of like the lo-fi quality that all the pics seem to have. They look like someone spent hours in photoshop to make them look "shitty." Of course I still think you need an overall talent and eye to begin with. I'd liken this to the idea that a really good guitar player can pick up even the worst guitar and plug it into the worst amp and it will sound amazing, and a shitty guitar player can shell out the big bucks on Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier and brand a new Les Paul and it will still sound like ass. With that being said I bought a Holga, a medium format camera with a color wheel in the flash. My thinking with this is purely for fun. I think it's be good times to just take the camera out on a lazy weekend afternoon and just walk around and take pictures of random stuffs just to see what happens. Who knows maybe even bringing it along to one of the usual excursions to Ikea could make that more fun as well? Hmmm, whenever we get our first batch of Fondu Victory shirts ready, maybs a Holga photoshoot would be cool? Anyway............