A few holgas to cheer me up....

Its going to be one of those days - I can feel it. My hair looks awful, my bus was incredibly late and I forgot my phone cable so I can't upload my photos from the weekend... sob

On the plus side I did get another roll from my Holga developed and I used the new laptop (eee) to scan them in... yeay for the laptop! These are only half of the holga photos from a couple of weekends ago, the other film is still waiting to be finished...

I don't know why the ones with people in them are so cropped but I still love how they turned out... each roll has been so different! I can not wait to take Helga the Holga to the beach at the weekend, yeay!!

p.s. I also developed a mini girl crush on Kristen Stewart (and reinforced my crush on Ryan Reynolds) at the weekend after watching Adventureland - Have you seen it? I loved it!

p.p.s. How small do my shoes look next to Boyfriend's, hehe!

Dear Mr Slug...

First I guess I should apologise for throwing you out of our bathroom window - that was probably uncalled for, especially as you made the worst splatting noise I have ever heard as you landed (ew).

However, I am sure you understand that I was not very happy to see you (or 2 more of your long, slimy friends) in my living room last night making trails on my rug! I did think about pouring salt on you (I had some prepared) but cleaning up bubbling, dead slugs at 1am is not my idea of fun...

I have no idea how you get into the house, we checked everywhere and put salt around each wall but you still manage to get in, taunting me with your trails that don't lead anywhere and after throwing out a total of 6 of you I am willing to say that I am not happy, especially as I have developed an irrational fear of stepping on one of you after finding the first one with my bare feet *shudder*

I feel its only fair that I warn your (hopefully last) remaining slug friend who hid from me and then danced circles on our welcome rug last night after our little showdown that if I see him - I will salt him!

Or at the very least Boyfriend will... as he is almost always wearing some sort of foot wear!

p.s. We did actually buy this book for our friend who hates slugs... I'm seriously considering borrowing it!

Black and White Holga Love...

I'll admit, I wasn't very happy with some of the holga photos that I got back from Birmingham.

The weather wasn't great and the colours looked a little dull and lifeless. I toyed with the idea of playing with them in Photoshop {I heart photoshop} but it wasn't until I saw these that I decided to just do it!

The contrast of the tones look so much better in black and white complimenting the dull weather! I really should just buy some black and white film...

Holga vs Digital

It wasn't until I got the roll of film processed with the Scarborough photos on that I remembered that I took a photo with each camera in order to do a comparison...

I'm really amazed by how much brighter the colours in the holga are and how much wider the digital photo is.

Even though the focus is slightly off on the holga (and theres an annoying person in the photo!) I think that it captured the moment much better than the digital camera - it was a gorgeous day and the sky and sea were stunning!

Though of course I still love them both!