Holga in Sydney

I was in Sydney four years ago on business. I had almost a full day until my flight so I took a stroll with my Holga camera. This is one of the perspectives of the opera house. At the time they were repairing or replacing many of the tiles which looked to be a very difficult and labor intensive job.


I took the hundreds of steps up one of the bridge foundations. I think they put these windows in to let you know you were getting close to the top. The view from the top was fantastic, a panoramic view of the city and the harbor. Strangely enough I didn't like any of the shots I took from there. They looked pretty standard...

Here is the bridge span from inside. The little dots you see on the top left are people. If you get up early enough and get in line you can pay to climb the span to the middle of the bridge.

Holga shots

I'm still having trouble with my scanner so I've gone back to my archives again.

This is a shot of chess players at Portland's "living room" Pioneer Square. It was taken several years ago when I was still getting used to shooting with a plastic camera. Whenever I was downtown in this area there was always a group of people playing chess and queuing up to be the next one to give it a go.


This was taken during the Portland Rose festival. The bear was trying to say hello to the little girl and she started running! I don't blame her.

Point-and-shoot

We had to buy a new computer and now I can't get my scanner to work... So here are a couple of point-and-shoot pics of rivers I've been to lately. The top shot was taken from my VW camper van as I drove along side the lower Deschutes river in Oregon. The bottom one is the Crooked river also in Oregon. Both of these are true high desert rivers with native "redside" rainbow trout. They are both beautiful places to be. It looks like they both could have been used to film those classic Cowboy movies.

I'm really bummed about my scanner. I have some new night photos I'd like to post. Wish me luck on getting it back in working order.

New York City in Polaroid SX-70

I'm still digging through my old pics and decided to post another NY set. As you may have read from my earlier posts I used to go to New York on business a few times a year. I usually had a few hours to kill before getting to the airport at the end of the week and I would spend them wandering around exploring Manhattan. Most of the time I would have my plastic Holga camera with me, but as you can see with these photos I had my folding Polaroid SX-70. Too bad Polaroid has failed and no longer makes SX-70 film...

These photos were manipulated, not with photoshop, but with a tooth pick. Yep, a tooth pic. The dye stays in a gel-like state for several hours after taking the picture and the Mylar cover allows you to push the dye around to get different effects.

Enjoy.

Carousel Horse

I'm going through my archives again. This is a Polaroid image transfer of a carousel horse at the Seattle Center taken many years ago. I used watercolors to enhance the image.

NY revisited - Holga Camera series

NYPD at Rockefeller Center, 2002

Lunch time nap at New York Library, 2002

Enjoying the sun, New York Public Library 2002

Flyer Man, Avenue of the Americas

Flatiron Building

Digging through my old files again and thought I'd post (possibly repost) some of my old NYC Holga series. No new stories to tell here. Enjoy.

Made in Oregon

This is my take on the "Made in Oregon" sign on west Burnside street. The sign as it's usually represented on post cards doesn't show the grittier side of this area.

The University of Oregon, which is based in Eugene recently bought this building and the sign. The want to change it to "University of Oregon". This has created a huge controversy. Some think the sign should stay as is even though it was changed to "Made in Oregon" by the Naito family who ran the Made in Oregon stores. Others think that having U of O on it is a slap in the face to Portland State University (the home team). From what I know, the sign originally was erected as advertising for White Satin Sugar, it was then changed to White Stag for the White Stag sportswear company and finally to its current name.

As it turns out a comprimse has been reached. It will now say only "Oregon".

That's your history lesson for today.