In association with Umbrella Arts, Holga Inspire is hosting a fantastic exhibition in NYC beginning December 9th. The exhibition includes pretty much all the famous holga photographers you have seen before! The exhibition opens with a party on the 9th Decemeber at 18:00, and you are all invited! Get yourself onto the facebook event page to »
One reasonably sunny Saturday on the South coast of England. The shops are open, buskers are clashing in the air with sporadic musical styles, tourists gather and take snapshots of local landmarks shrouded in the flap of scaffolding. And somewhere in a nearby park, a loose-knit gaggle of Flickr enthusiasts sporting a strange selection of cameras are busy trying to attach lengths of washing line to an array of tripods and trees.
The plan was simple: Hang some photos in the wide-open public space for the ‘enjoyment’ of the passing local populace. (And drink beer.)
Last year, Freestyle hosted its first ever employee gallery exhibition, which was a resounding success. Thanks in large part to the overwhelmingly positive feedback the show received, they now present Freestyle Exposed…The Tradition Continues!
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Flickr Friday
This is a new series that we are starting, and hope that it will continue weekly.
Each week, we will search the Holga Flickr group for photos added during that week and will post a few of our favorites, based on a theme.
Our first theme for the week of February 10 – 17, 2010 is The [...]
Holga Wide and Tele Lens test shots
Here are a few test shots I took in my back yard a couple of weeks ago using the new Holga Wide and Tele lenses. For comparison, I stood in the same spot and took them all from the same angle (as best I could!).
I will keep trying out the lenses in some more different [...]
Review: Holga 120 WPC
I was originally going to start this review of the 120 WPC off quite technically – what the WPC stood for, what features it had, what the f-stop was. That kind of thing. Then I realised I’d been sucked into what I actually try to avoid in photography: geekspeak. So while some of the specifics [...]
