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This would have been a throw-away shot, except for two important lessons it taught me about the Holga. First, the film doesn't advance by itself. (Easy to forget when you haven't used film in 3 years!) Second, an accidental double-exposure might turn a boring picture into a more interesting one!
This is the first thing I shot after I loaded my first roll of 120mm film into the Holga. I was just making sure I knew how to trip the shutter, so I shot a frame in the dull and entirely boring parking lot at work. The building on the right houses space shuttle and space station mockups; I don't actually know what the antennas on the left do.
I vaguely remember snapping a photo in the elevator by accident, as I was inspecting the camera lens. Of course I hadn't advanced the film yet. So the ceiling grid of the elevator is seen in the sky of the parking lot shot. I didn't fade the ceiling into the other shot at all; it actually came out of the camera like that. Turned out to be a pretty interesting effect...
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