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the pond………… 7:05am

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after 10 days in haiti with my good mate caroline i have returned home. the hardest part of going away always seems to be coming back. haiti was a blast! met up with some friends doing humanitarian work in haiti and we all spent the week travelling around and taking in some of the local culture around port au prince. thanks to friends old and new that i ran into on the trip around the island.

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while going over some photos from the archives i stumbled upon this beauty. while the subject matter itself isn’t anything spectacular the colors and textures give it that “painted” look.

shot using a canon markIV, 85-200mm (120mm) canon lense

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i ran through 4 rolls of film in a short period of time. here’s a sample of some of the shots that came about.

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the first time i laid my hands on my friends holga i noticed something different immediatley. it was much heavier than mine and much much tighter. no loose lens ring or film winder that keeps going backwards. upon further inspection i noticed her camera was the mac daddy of all holgas. the gcfn with a four color flash. the gcfn holga 120 has everything. foam padding in the film holder, 4 color flash and a ratcheting film advance wheel. i knew that i had to start saving up the pennies and get my hands on one of these. a few weeks later i found myself looking at new holgas online. i decided on the custom camo holga gcfn 120 camera. i had to wait a while for it but it finally arrived. this is bad ass. everything is so much sturdier and heavier. the weight makes it feel less like a toy and more like a camera should with the advantage of not shooting like a normal camera. i’ve already snapped off a few pics around the house to try out the shutter and play with the lens. feels good. i’m interested to see if this one has nasty light leaks like my older one. this film won’t last a day so i’m sure i’ll find out soon.

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like neil says “better to burn out than to fade away”

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this is another keeper from the ribfest walk…………………. say cheese

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fellow holga fanatic krista (aka starbux) and i did a camera cammando mission through victoria park during ribfest. amongst the many laughs and hours of people watching we were both able to snap off a few nice shots. this little statuette was on a balcony next to victoria park. the film was a fuji color 120 (exp. oct 2007).

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so a few months ago i started to play with a holga medium format camera. well after putting quite a few rolls of film through i have some results back. it is certainly as unpredictable as i was told it would be. once i finish off this box film i’m going to switch to balck and white for a while. the film used was a fujicolor NPH120 Pro400 (expired in june 2003). due to it’s age it really soaks up the light and therefore i ended up with alot of burnout. here’s a few examples. this camera is blast and the possibilities seem endless.

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for the first time since 2009 i finally regrouped with the true north gang. after hooking up at the shop a crew of us headed off to hilton falls for some ridin’. i’ll start straight off saying “i was scared shitless”. as we entered the trails i grabbed 2nd or 3rd wheel and off we went. i instictively carved the corners and skipped the rocks and had a huge smile on my face. oh to be back on the heavinly trails again. i came around a tight corner and my front wheel skipped out for a second. no big deal, happens all the time. as i straightened it out i had this flash in my mind of me lying back in bed all wrecked up. bam! my nerves were gone. i jumped on the back of the line and rode cautiously for the rest of the night. caution is something new to me, frustrating. it got better as the night went on but was still suprising. we had a great time out there though and even got to do a nice long hike a bike through a swamp. still not sure who got us in that mess. thanks to the crew for another a great ride and a fun return to trails.

scooter, gander, myself, jennie, hughb

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