I recently took my Holga 120CFN with me on holiday and tried to take at least one decent photo in each place we visited. For the most part, this was successful and I'm very happy with the results. You can see them here if you like: Bloomfield and George I love the anticipation of receiving the latest batch of Holga prints, wondering whether the nifty angle I tried to take or the vibrant colours would turn out. It really was the Holga that got me interested in taking photos. The camera is fairly cheap, it's easy to use, and it really is fun. On the down side, the film and processing is not so cheap and it's hard to find a place to get them developed. I had some developed in Brisbane by Fotofast recently and was happy with the results. When I contacted them, they were enthusiastic about developing Holga prints, which I was relieved about because I had experienced some quite indifferent attitudes at other developers closer to home. It makes a difference.
So, here is my Holga, showing its grubby masking tape and dodgy neck strap (it comes off when it has had enough):
I try to experiment with different films. For a while I loved cross processing - taking a film used to create slides and having it developed using the usual film process (there's plenty of information on the net about the more technical side). The results can be beautiful but unpredictable. Which is fine! Here is one I took at the Buchart Gardens in Victoria, British Columbia. This place was heaven for Holga because of the insanely vibrant floral displays. Travelling there in late summer, I was fortunate enough to see their displays of tuberous begonias:
Being cross processed, it saturated the colour so much, the lush dark green leaves turned to black.