COMPETITION: WIN ANY HOLGA, 1 WEEK LEFT

A Small reminder.  This competition ENDS ON SUNDAY. so get your entries in now   There’s a great prize available: Any Holga camera you want!!!

Holgablog, in association with Holga Inspire brings you an exciting new competition! You have the chance to win ANY holga camera in the entire holga catalogue (you can see »

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Mike Stimpson: The Lego Man

It’s not often Holgablog features any digital. We don’t have anything against it, but there’s hundreds of digital sites out there. What we do like, however, is LEGO! The Danish building blocks were a staple of most people’s childhood and are still going strong today. I think if we had half a chance, »

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Blog Roundup

At holgablog when we aren’t busy delivery super-spangly content to you, we spend our spare 25mins reading other peoples fine blogs.  Here’s what’s happening at the writers favourite blogs, if you fancy being featured here, just drop me a line at andrew@goatkarma.com. Four Corners Dark

The fourcornerstore now stocks all Superhedz gear, which means you no longer »

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Featured Photographer of the Month: James Arnold

This month, we introduce James Arnold AKA Plastic Fantastic. A long-running favourite among the Toy Camera community. Name: James Arnold Location: Bicester, England Hometown: York, England Current Gear: Holga 120 GCFN Favortite Film: Kodak Portra 400 VC 120 Favorite Food: Cheese Favorite Photographer(s): Er… James is a small, bald photographer, graphic designer and illustrator from Northern England. He likes cheese and »

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The Olympus Trip 35: A classic everyone should own!

The Olympus Trip 35 is a certified classic.   Over 10 million sold, relatively cheap to buy 2nd hand(I got mine for £5/$10 on ebay), and with a absolutely cracking lens, you just can’t lose. The Trip 35 was made famous in the 70’s by David Bailey declaring it the 2nd coming (the giant wads of cash »

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The Best Holga Photos from Flickr April 2009

Sorry for the late one this month.  It’s been mad-busy with themed days following themed weeks.  I think we are through the worst of the time now! (Scheduling NIGHTMARE: WPD2009,ICCD09 & ‘Roid Week 09 all in the space of a few weeks, there’s still a few articles sat unpublished, they’ll have to wait till next »

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Commie Camera: And the winner is…..

Thanks for everyone who entered the competition to win a commie camera.  We were genuinely humbled by the response we got. We felt a bit sorry for the Vilia, nobody really wanted it apart from a few, so it looks like it will be staying in my cupboard for a bit longer! The judging process was a »

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the polaroid house

photo courtesy of kim it was a dark and early morning when i started up my car to make a four and half hour drive from my home to an abandoned house down south. located an hour north of los angeles california, and five hours south of san francisco, an abandoned house sits above a road, overlooking »

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‘Roid Week 2009 is upon us

It seems Holgablog is floating from one themed week to the next at the moment, with International Commie Camera Day on Friday being followed up this week with ‘Roid week 2009. Here’s the lowdown from flickr: Here are the simple rules: * It’s five days. Monday thru Friday. * Pool opens at 6:00 am on Monday, Eastern Standard »

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Flickr Friday!

It’s that time again! TGIF!! Apologies on the absence of your Friday doses of Holga photos! I hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Here is a no-theme post from some of my favorite shots the past few weeks.
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Holgapalooza Deadline Extension!

The deadline to get your entry submitted for Holgapalooza has been extended until Midnight September 12th, 2010!

CATEGORIES AND JUDGES:
1) “Roadside attractions” – Judge: Ted Orland
2) “Creatures” – Judge: Meg Birnbaum
3) “Nudes” – Judge: Francisco Mata Rosas
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Roadside Attractions
1st Place: $400 CASH, Lomography Perfect ($700 value)
2nd Place: $250 CASH, Polaroid 636 Paul Giambarda edition
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Photographer of the Month

This is a shout-out to anyone and everyone who shoots with a Holga – or any plastic/pinhole/makeshift/homemade/polaroid/holgaroid/shoebox camera for that matter!
We are looking for photographers from around the globe to be featured in our POTM section. Entering is simple, fast and easy. Simply find us on Twitter, follow us (if you aren’t already doing so), [...]