The light of Heaven

Credits: sebastiansiu

This was not the first time I had used my Holga. When I first got the photos taken by my Holga from the print shop, I thought it was not the camera that I wanted as there were no light leaking effects. I put it away for a while until my friend gave me a roll of 120 film. I took out my Holga and went shooting with friends as I didn’t want to waste the film.

I asked my friend to take a picture of me using my Holga. Yet, Holga was an alien to my friend who was used to using digital camera. Even though it was easy to use, he was not sure whether he had really triggered the shutter. Therefore, I told him to press the shutter again as double exposure was better than having no pic taken on the film. Unfortunately, he dropped the camera after the second shot and 1/4 of the back was open. I blamed my friend for wasting the precious film. You know, there are only 12 exposures for 120!

I regretted for what I had done to my friend when I got the photos from the print shop. He was an accidentally professional analogue photographer. Even though my image in the photo blurred, it’s so far my most favourite picture taken by Holga. Look at the beautiful colours. The light of Heaven was shining on me!

written by sebastiansiu on 2011-03-24