In the latest installment of cars shot for Richard over at Performance Car Dreams I borrowed an Impreza WRX for long enough to take some photos of it.

Bonkers loud and 300BHP ensure it’s quite an event to drive, I was tempted to buy it myself but decided I’d stick with my little Fiesta for now until (if? when?) the fuel prices ever go back to a bearable level.

No silly, not horrible ginger swellhead Rex from big brother, but rather a Maxda RX-8, and a Golf GTI. See what I did there? Anyway I can’t think of anything funny to write so I’ll just put these pictures here and leave it at that.

These were taken for Richard over at Performance Car Dreams.

Dogs are great right, they are easily as great as pretty much anything you can think of. Here are some things dogs are better than:

1.) Cats
2.) People
3.) Pens
4.) Balloons
5.) Mittens
6.) Bricks
7.) Trees
8.) Cups

As you can see from that list, Dogs are pretty great and no mistake. So when my pal Ross asks me to take some piccies of some dogs I’m hardly going to say “no” am I? They are miniature schauzers no less!

I liked this one as I thought it looked like some sort of rockstar portrait. If you disagree with this, you can add yourself to the list above as number 9.) You.

And just because Dogs + Fisheye lenses = fun, here’s another for you.

I know I haven’t posted any car photos for ages, which will be rectified very shortly as I have two cars to shoot this weekend. vrooom beeep!

Following my disasterous last effort with the holga, I decided to throw a couple more rolls through it to see what would happen. This co-incided with going to Carter’s Steam Fair which was visiting our town at the time.

If you don’t know what a Holga is, it’s basically a camera made of plastic. How exciting! If you don’t know what a steam fair is, it’s basically a fair, made of steam, oh wait…

All three of these photos were taken on Fuji Provia 400ISO, with the Holga set on it’s highly technical “cloudy” setting.

Holga

Holga 120cfn
Carters Steam Fair
Fuji Provia 400

Holga

Holga 120cfn
Carters Steam Fair
Fuji Provia 400

Panning with a Holga, I never thought it would work but it did!

Holga

Holga 120cfn
Carters Steam Fair
Fuji Provia 400
Look at that piggy! Oink!

It’s now been just under a year since I got the Holga. In that year I’ve put through about 15 or 20 rolls of 120 film of varying types and vintages. A lot of people dislike the vignetting and out of focus areas that you get with a Holga, not to mention the light leaks. I’m the opposite, and infact that’s probably the only complaint I have with my copy, it doesn’t vignette enough, it doesn’t leak enough light, and the focus is too consistent across the frame.

I’m considering beating it up a bit to see if that makes a difference! I’ve seen various cheats such as deliberately unwinding the film a bit once it’s finished and on the roll, so that’s one option to fix the light leaks. I suppose I could smear some grease on the lens as well!

All in all my love affair with the Holga continues, and while things could be better, I’m not looking for a divorce yet!