Robbie Becklund Photography

Barton Creek, Austin Texas - 2002 (working through old film...)

I've got one Holga that has a nasty V shaped intermittent light leak that I have not been able to stop and it's ruined many good shots. But I do have one holga that is not leaking at all! I had been shooting 6x4.5 with that one, but I recently cut the frame to 6x6 so that camera's working great. I've got one more that I'm using for long exposures because the shutter is dead. I think I'll switch lenses with the dead shutter body and the light leaker. With a holga, the lens and shutter are all together and switching them is like changing a light bulb.

One holga hack I haven't tried, which I think I might, is to make the 3 foot focus limit to a 2 foot focus limit. I've seen this modification somewhere on the internet.

The camera store was all stocked up with Ilford film so I got 10 rolls. But I'm not getting up to Duluth this weekend, maybe the day before Turkey Day since there's no school for my son. For today, we'll venture out somewhere around town.

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Some friend's gave a slide show last night of their trip to South America through Peru, Bolivia and Chile. It looks like an amazing trip (I saw a Globe Trekker show with almost the same route). They went through villages in the Andes and stayed with families and in small hotels/guest houses. They went all the way to the end of Chile and were able to get pictures of penguins. I think that this has gone to the top of my list of dream trips.

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Fun Facts: Last month my site averaged 188 page views per day. Last week it averaged 250 page views per day. Cool.