Two of my biggest passions combined into one image! The camera that got me started down the path of toy/junkstore photography is the camera that got thousands of people started:
The Holga. I know that many "real" photographers scoff at anything coming from the Lomography folks, but I have this to say: Lomography makes medium format cameras that are quite affordable and versatile when compared to professional models. Yes, they are overpriced considering that they are nearly 100% plastic and break fairly easily, but the fact that a person who wants to start taking medium format photos is able to do that for about $50 is pretty remarkable. A great thing, I would say. What's more, Lomography is always coming out with new products and accessories. I have talked about my love for the Holga macro lenses in
this post, but here it is again! Oh, I spent so much time defending Lomography that I forgot to highlight my second passion, which I mentioned in the first sentence: Plants! Flora! Vegetables, if I am to give a shout-out to Carl Linnaeus! My apartment is absolutely full of houseplants picked up here and there, purchased at Volunteer Park Conservatory sales, rescued from various places. I love them and spend a lot of time on them, and that includes my time behind a camera.
Seen here is the
Copiapoa Hypogaea, which is a cactus I picked up at a plant sale at Volunteer Park. It is light brown with sparse, shiny, black spines and a white cottony tuft around the middle. Mine has bloomed several times, with a flower that looks similar to a waxy dandelion, and when the flower dies it leaves a seedpod which eventually bursts open like this one.
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Copiapoa Hypogaea Seeds
Taken with Holga 120 CFN on Kodak Portra 400 NC |
one of my favorite pictures!
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