Holga Show 3.0

Thirty one images from twenty-seven artists constitute Photomedia Center's third annual "Holga Show". I was fortunate enough to have two images selected this year, "Vernal Pool" and "Sassy".

Looking at the images side-by-side, my guess is that the judges are big fans of empty black space. :) Check out the entire show, including many images without a lot of empty blackness, at

http://www.photomediacenter.org/Holga3/Holga3show.html

First Snowfall Diptych

Bicycle tracks at the Middlesex Fells Reservation

after last week's snow.

Click on the image to view it larger.

Holga 120N

First Snow

On the trail that was the old rail line through

the Middlesex Fells Reservation. The wind

rose and blew a bunch of snow from the trees

just as I was tripping the shutter.

Holga 120N

Into Tomorrow

Horn Pond Reservation, Woburn, MA

Holga 120N

Pumphouse

Horn Pond Reservation, Woburn, MA

Holga 120N

Fence

Fence overgrown by vines at Horn Pond, Woburn, MA

Holga 120N

Geometry Lesson

At the abandonned 90mm site in the Middlesex Fells Reservation, Medford, Massachusetts

Holga 120N

10 Minutes Friday Afternoon

From my backyard. Is there such a thing as a "quadtych"?

Holga 120N

Twirl

Long exposure with my Holga 120N at Darnley

Beach, Prince Edward Island. Looking down a

tidal stream toward the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Ascension

South Boston, Massachusetts

Just a block or so from my studio.

Holga 120N

Autumn

Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, Massachusetts

Holga 120N

Once Summer

Breakheart Reservation, Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Holga 120N

Spill #2

Most of the stuff I post here is shot with one of my Holgas. But I love my Bessa R3A with the f1:4 Nokton lens, which I almost always shoot with wide open. I love the surreal bokeh that this lens offers. This image was taken in the Whip Hill section of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, just north of Boston, Mass.

The film (FP4) was stand processed in R09 (Rodinal formula) for two hours at a dilution of 1 to 200. The stand processing really subdues the extremely contrasty early morning light in which this image was taken.

Bursting Through

Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island

Holga 120N with "distressed" #8 yellow filter

Tudor

There's not much left to the eclectic, honkey-tonk Revere Beach that I remember from my youth. It's mostly all high-rise condominiums along the beach now.

Revere, Massachsetts

Holga 120N

591 Show

591 photography gallery is a site I check out on a daily basis. When Ulf Fagelhammar asked me if I would like to show some of my work there, I jumped at the opportunity. Ulf does a great job with this site and I encourage everyone to take a look at not only my work, but the work of other photographers as well.

Thanks for looking.

http://www.591photography.com/2009/09/591-exhibition-jim-rohan.html

Reflect

Wakefield, Massachusetts

Holga 120N

Morning Pool

When I was in Prince Edward Island in July, my

beach photos consisted mostly of fog, rain and

clouds. But in August the sun came out and stayed out for two weeks. This is an early morning shot of a tidal pool on Darnley Beach,

in Lower Darnley, PEI.

Taken with a Holga 120N with a yellow filter.

Picnic

Nahant Beach looking more like Normandy Beach.

Nahant, MA

Holga 120N

Mermaid

An abandoned seafood takeout place in Rustico, Prince Edward Island.

Forest For The Trees

An area of dense forest in the Whip Hill section of the Middlesex Fells Reservation. Stoneham, Massachusetts. Film was stand processed in Rodinal 1:100 for an hour.

Holga 120N

Doleful Pond Woods

Doleful Pond, Middlesex Fells Reservation, Stoneham, MA

Efke infared in a Holga TLR.

Approximate exposure 30 seconds. ("One Mississippi, two

Mississippi...")

This is the Sea

This is a flow from a tidal pond, or barachois,

on Darnley Beach, Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island.

It always reminds me of the Waterboys song (That Was the River) This Is the Sea.

Taken with an Eximus Wide and Slim 35mm plastic camera and cropped square. (Ya, I cropped it. So sue me.)

Clearing Fog

Darnley Beach in Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Holga 120N

Lord's Tractor

Lord's Tractor

Alexander, Maine

Holga 120N

Lighthouse Lawn Ornament

Darnley, Prince Edward Island

North Rustico House

North Rustico, Prince Edward Island

Fudge

When I asked him if he would mind if I took a couple of

photos of him, John was more than accommodating.

While I was taking photos, he explained to me how

"that sweater place" had used him to model in one of their 

catalogs. I asked him if it were one of the local island

sweater shops. "No", he said, "I think it's called Land's End".

I told him that I hoped he was well paid for his modeling

and he just smiled.

North Rustico, Prince Edward Island

Holga 120N

Sassy

"Sassy".

Holga 120N

Solo

A Holga double exposure. Tree is from the Middlesex Fells Reservation, sky is from atop Castle Rock in Breakheart

Reservation.

The Demise of Kodachrome

I think this is where I am supposed to wax poetic about the Kodak officially pulling the plug on Kodachrome after seventy plus years. Two things...

If I read one more blog or see one more internet site article that quotes that awful Paul Simon song, then I am taking hostages.

Secondly, my guess would be that ninety nine percent of those waxing poetic about the demise of Kodachrome have not shot a single roll of Kodachrome in the last ten years. I know that I haven't.

My opinion...I always thought that Kodachrome was a real pain in the ass to scan.

Curtain of Leaves

Looking into the parking lot of Medford High School from the Middlesex Fells.

Holga 120N

In There

Handheld vertical pan in the woods.

Holga 135BC

Primordial Soup

"Nessy" lives in a tiny lake in Lopez, PA

Holga 120S

Shamrock

Every morning, my dog Jack and I walk by this window

after retuning from our daily early morning walk on the beach. The shamrock is blue. Someday I should really shoot this in color.

South Boston, MA

Holga 120N

Tracks

Nahant Beach. Nahant, MA

Holga 120N

Forest Floor

Late afternoon in the north eastern Middlesex Fells Reservation. Holga 120N

Astrophotography

Storefront in Lynn, Massachusetts. Holga 120N

Slash

Middlesex Fells Reservation. Holga 120N

Hemlock Pool

Hemlock Pool in the eastern section of the Middlesex Fells Reservation. 

Holga 120N with a custom "distressed" filter

Wall

South End, Boston, Massachusetts

Holga 120N

Shameless Plug

If you are an obsessive toy camera user like me, you are probably familiar with the fabulous publication Light Leaks. The theme for the new issue is "Road Trip", and I was fortunate enough to have my image "Ghost Town" published in this edition. My image is on a page with three other equally strange images, including one by the fantastic toy camera photographer Bill Vaccaro, and two great images by Mark Fisher and Susan Lirakis. This is a particularly great edition of Light Leaks, so get it while you can. The last few issues have been completely sold out.

Inside the Fence

At Bear Hill in the Middlesex Fells Reservation. Holga 120N

Arch

Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, MA

Holga 120N

Pond

Long Pond, Middlesex Fells Reservation, Winchester, Massachusetts

Holga 120N

Van de Graaff Generator

Abandoned water tower in the eastern section of the Middlesex Fells Reservation.

Holga 120N

Sunrise

Check out this image of mine and other photographers images voted best Holga photos on Flickr for March 2009 by the members of Holga Blog. Check them out here.

Thanks Holga Blog.

Into the Wild

Middlesex Fells Reservation

Holga 120N

Tower

Bear Hill Tower in the Middlesex Fells Reservation.

Holga 120N

Vernal Pool

Holga 120N