Holga Dreamscapes

One of my favorite things that I like about the Holga is the lack of its mechanics – it’s basically a plastic case with a spool to hold the film and the plastic lens.  This allows you to generate some amazing imagery through double exposures – you take one shot, then reframe without winding the film and take another shot.

This can create what looks like ghost images – like the dock in the first image, which was shot in Greenport LI.  The first shot was framed looking down the dock towards the water and then the second was framed around Shelter Island.  Another approach to the ghost image is to take a shot and then reframe on the same subject but at a slightly different angle or shifting the camera slightly to the left or right – this generates images like the Ghost Eiffel and the Ghost Spires, which was shot in Seville, Spain.

Sometimes the resulting imagery is dramatic, like the Double Bridge or the Double Rocks.  And sometimes the double effect is very subtle like the Ghost Sphinx shot at Chenonceau, France or the Ghost Graves shot a the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.