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Weekly theme: Awake

Location: Austin, TX
Date taken: Spring/Summer 2003
Film: Fuji NPH400
Camera: HolgaMods modified Holga
Lens: N/A
Focal Length: Unknown
Exposure Time: 1/100
Aperture: Unknown
ISO: 400
Macro: No
Edited: Photoshop CS3 and Picasa 3 on MacBook

About the photo: For this theme I had a hard time moving past the idea of taking a photo of me waking up (not sure how that would happen) or what it looks like when I wake up (blurry and then I press snooze). So, I thought about things that awaken me or times when I have been awakened to something new. Eventually I came to the first time I used the Holga. This photo is the from the first role of film that I shot with that toy camera. When I saw the contact sheet for the first time I was amazed at what this camera does to the scenes that are recorded. I was awakened to the idea that not all cameras are the same, that photographic images are direct result of the technologies used. I suspect that I knew this all along, but it took seeing the vignetting, the uneven border, the hyper-real colors of the Holga images to really know this. This first role awoke a passion for the Holga that stays with me today.

photo categories: Awake, Bill, Color
tags: black, blue, holga, railroad, red, sign, Texas, white

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