with Beanbean

This doubles project was one of the many that came about through lomography.com. Beanbean was, as far as I can remember, the alternate name of another Lomography user whose name escapes me now... Beanbean set up the second account purely for his double exposure projects, he's got loads on his page.

from January 2007, shot on Agfa Vista 200 colour negative film

Beijing and Tokyo + Galway

Auld Shtock

I've found myself, for one reason or another, looking at old photographs I took when I was still just getting into photography; these were taken with a Holga, a plastic piece of crap Chinese camera known for producing dreamlike, lo-fi photographs, though it's incredibly hit and miss.

I rarely got anything good out of the Holga; I put maybe a dozen rolls of film through it and I think the success rate was roughly two decent photos per roll. I just never really got the hang of it I suppose, and I never really bought into the whole aesthetic around it. But I did get some stuff I was happy with, and I enjoyed experimenting with it; there's no danger of taking things too seriously when you're holding one.

I might give it another go come summer. It's best suited to bright weather when there's plenty of colour about (the built in colourflash on the model I got is pretty hideous, I wish I'd gone for one with a hotshoe) and I think cross-processed slide film is the way to go. Though I might find my lo-fi aspirations have been spoiled by having used a (borrowed) Mamiya and a (also borrowed) Hasselblad...