northern journeys
~ August 10, 2009 ~
My sister gave me a Holga for my birthday this past May. I don’t fall easily for old-school technology just for nostalgia’s sake (I love the convenience of my digital point-and-shoot), but I’ve had a lot of fun playing with medium format film ever since. I especially dig the dreamy, supersaturated colorscapes of 120 film and soft focus of the Holga’s plastic lens, effects that can’t quite be replicated in Photoshop with digital photos.
One problem with film, though, is that you have to wait until you finish the roll before you develop it. These pictures were taken over a long weekend around July 4th, when I took a short roadtrip with some friends to the cosmopolitan cultural center of Quebéc. It was totally cloudy and rainy most of the time we were there, though — unideal lighting conditions for the Agfa 100 ISO film I had brought with me — so I ended up shooting only a few nondigital photos. The remaining exposures I shot over the course of the past month in New York, and I just picked up the developed the roll today.
