Monday, July 11, 2005
Shot a couple of rolls today as I took my son hunting for graffiti to check out--he really digs the stuff. Wandered around the old Glenwood Springs buildings and grain elevators in Minneapolis. The grain elevators and connected buildings are huge and open. My son wondered if there was a way to get up to the top of the grain elevators to check out the coolest graffiti, which of course, is at the top of the buildings. I explained we would have to go inside and climb up through the buildings to get to them--he decided it would be best to stay outside and look from the ground (I wouldn't have taken him--he's eight). I let him take pictures of the graffiti with my Holga. He's wanting a Holga of his own (but guess who would have to develop the film and guess who's having a hard enough time doing his own film).
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At times I get frustrated just using the Holga camera. It does have some short comings ya know. But the more I think about it, I really identify with using the Holga and doing traditional black and white. Photography has always been a gear geek medium, but with the advent of digital it is out of control. It has become so expensive and techie oriented. Even used medium format cameras are very expensive. Hell, photography is expensive.
The more I think about it, the more I realize or have decided that part of my "thing" is that I am using the holga, not just because I like the image quality, but because I like the simplicity of it and it is a reaction against the consumeristic nature of photography now. Photography has really become like so many things in our culture, you have to get the latest and greatest and obsolescence is built into the products with the constant upgrades.
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At times I get frustrated just using the Holga camera. It does have some short comings ya know. But the more I think about it, I really identify with using the Holga and doing traditional black and white. Photography has always been a gear geek medium, but with the advent of digital it is out of control. It has become so expensive and techie oriented. Even used medium format cameras are very expensive. Hell, photography is expensive.
The more I think about it, the more I realize or have decided that part of my "thing" is that I am using the holga, not just because I like the image quality, but because I like the simplicity of it and it is a reaction against the consumeristic nature of photography now. Photography has really become like so many things in our culture, you have to get the latest and greatest and obsolescence is built into the products with the constant upgrades.
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