From my trip to Mexico City earlier this year – it’s a naked dog. Wearing pants!
Xoloitzcuintli in Condessa, D.F | Holga, Kodak Portra 400
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How to Procrastinate #1
Charlemange @ Notre Dame | watercolour, pencil, ink & pencil crayon | 4″ x 6″
1. When cleaning the studio become distracted by poorly executed, failed and abandoned sketches or paintings and make feeble attempt to resurrect or fix them.
(I had all sorts of grand plans to paint my own postcards while on my travels last summer. I managed to paint, write and post 2. I got caught in a rain shower with this one, the third, so it ended up a bit destroyed – paint flowed into carefully planned negative spaces, wouldn’t dry fast enough in the damp and smeared during transport, and an attempt to save it with an over-drawing in ink just made things worse.)
Charlemange @ Notre Dame | holga pinhole | fuji pro 400h
Charlemange is way off in the distance in the center. The busy square emptied out when the shower hit and everyone ran for cover. This is just afterward, when they started to come back.
Rachael x2
Rachael, Accidentally Twice
Holga | Agfa Optima 400
It was World Toy Camera Day on October 20th. I’ve got some Holga photos to prove it.
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Holgas & Paperbacks
Wood Burning Oven/Yellow Table
Holga | Fuji NPZ 800
The Holga is a spontaneous sort of camera and I’m trying to get better at the whole spontaneous photography thing. I’ve just found out that my local 30 minute photo lab processes 120 (thanks for the tip Rachael). Now I don’t have to wait so long to see what new way I’ve managed to damage a roll of film.
Yesterday, while waiting for a roll of 35mm to develop, I wandered around the neigbourhood with my Holga, took some photos, dropped off the roll for developing and went to Vancouver Kidsbooks to kill the half hour until pickup time. I saw that one of the books I illustrated a few years ago is now out in paperback – they had a whole stack on a rack on the outside of a shelf – cover facing out.
As for the photographs, I managed not to destroy a single frame this time and even pulled off of a couple I’m happy with, like the one above. Not a bad day.
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Kirsti Wakelin 