The deadline for www.holgapalooza.com is just around the corner! Here is a reminder of this year’s Summer Contest Festivus!
Competitions
Self Portrait Challenge Winners!
The winners of the self portrait challenge are announced! Check out the great self portraits and stories from some of the entrants.
Deadline for Self Portrait Challenge is tomorrow!
I just wanted to remind everyone to get your entries in for the self portrait challenge! The deadline is tomorrow, July 20 at midnight Eastern time. Simply upload your photos to the Flickr group. Read the original post for more information. I look forward to seeing all of your photos Lots of great work so »
The Self Portrait Challenge
Have you ever tried to shoot a self portrait? Have you ever wanted to? Or are you on the other side of the fence where you hate having your photo taken and the main reason you took up photography was so you could be BEHIND the camera at all times? Self portraiture seems to »
Holga Self Portrait Challenge Results
This post is in follow up to my previous article “10 Tips for Better Holga Self Portraits” that I wrote just over a month ago. I was hoping to challenge the readers and toy camera shooters out there to try something different, go out of comfort zones and boxes and express themselves. Self portraits are not about »
Summer Competition…Winners!
It’s been a long summer at holgablog, trying to get some new things off the ground ,sponsoring Holgapalooza (still time to enter!), wlecoming new writers, reviewing new products, and having a few competitions. Our summer competition was a celebration of sun, sea, sand, blue skies, and lots of other things I don’t see very often in »
Summer Competition- Vote for your favourite!
Over the last few months we have ran a competition where you could win one of two lovely Smena/Cosmic Symbol cameras. The competition closed on the 1st September (the end of summer), and we have been overwhelmed with the quantity, and more importantly, the quality of the entries! It’s taken us a few weeks to go through »
Competition: Win one of two SMENA/COSMIC Symbols
Another holgablog competition is upon us! It’s summertime, we are feeling generous so we are giving you the chance to win one of two near MINT Smena/Cosmic Symbol cameras, along with faux leather cases. We have written about the Symbol before, and we loved it! Paired with cheap film, the colours and tones it produces »
HOLGAPALOOZA
Each year from July to September, photographers from around the world are encouraged to participate in an international contest featuring Holga photography hosted by Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com. Holgablog.com is sponsoring a category….get involved!







