There's nothing like putting down the digital camera and messing around with a camera that actually uses film. There is something about taking a picture and not knowing how it will look that is exciting...and when you are shooting your pictures with a Holga or a fish-eye camera (thanks Kristi!), you really don't know how things are going to look.

So here's some of the shots that I ended up with...I'd say I like how they turned out. If you want to see the whole fish-eye set, go here. If you want to see more Holga shots, go here.

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Last Saturday I had nothing to do so I took a walk at about 10:00PM through the Uptown area of Denver. I brought my Holga camera to get some pictures of the almost full moon and the city at night. (See all the pictures on Flickr here.) I gotta pat myself on the back for a couple of these shots – I think they are pretty cool…even thought the pictures turning out was mainly luck…

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Here’s my latest round of Holga shots. There are some good ones, and some not so great ones…I left some out because they were totally out of focus. The whole set can be seen here.

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Here's another round of shots I took with my Holga camera. Check the photoset on Flickr.

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So this might be turning into a Holga photo blog. As you can tell, I am having a lot fun with the camera (thanks again Mz. P). Check out the latest round of experimentation.

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Here are some B&W Holga shots I took recently. There is kind of a train theme, you can see them all at Flickr too...

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Here is my second roll of film from my Holga camera. Still learning how to work the darn thing. Between forgetting to take off the lens cap, overexposing, underexposing and having to completely guess how to focus it – I am lucky to have pictures as well. This one is my favorite I think:

Here are the rest (and here is the Flickr link to them as well):

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For Christmas I got a Holga from my good friend Mz. Pocket. No, a Holga isn’t a big-boned Swede lady - it is a Chinese camera that is made almost entirely of plastic, including the lens. Holgas have gained a cult following for the artistic photos that they take, the ultra ghetto-fabulousness of them (it is recommended to keep a rubber band around them so they don’t bust open), and it doesn’t hurt that the camera costs about $20.

Admittedly, I am no artist, but I have always enjoyed messing around with cameras. To see the photos from my first roll of film on the Holga, click here. (Warning: some of the photos didn’t turn out at all, but I included them anyway.

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