Holga fun

So I was recently playing around with my Holga. I guess using my digital all the time has rendered me incappable of using this $20 piece of equipment. (I had the frame counter on the wrong setting. DOH!) So most of my pics came out double exposed. I was able to save some by scanning them in on my flatbed that doesn't like 120 film.

Anyway, here is the one I like best and the double exposure actually makes it look better, I think. However there is one that has one and a half of my faces in it. I think it is kinda cool in a weird, demented sort of way. The soon-to-be-wife, doesn't think that is true. You can view it by clicking on the link to my SportsShooter page on the right.

Dude, I was even super-cool when I was little.

And for the record, I have no idea where this photo was taken. But, from looking at the picture, it appears to be a place that needed the use of "Life Preserver Boy."

That was my superhero name (Get it, I am a superhero who saves lives, named 'Life Preserver Boy.' Get it?!), well until me and all the other superheroes, had to act normal. (There was a documentary movie about it all.) Now I am a copy editor and photographer at a paper. Just waiting for time to come when they will need me/us again.

I wonder if the goggles still fit?

County Fair

At the recent county fair the local 4-H Shooting Sports group had an archery tent set up. Kids, you had to under 18 and had to have your parent's permission, were able to shoot a handfull of arrows at targets. It was an attempt to spread the word about 4-H shooting sports and to try to get some more members.

This little guy, was the most fun to shoot out of everyone that was there while I was. A young kid, maybe 6-8 years old, he tried as hard as he could to pull the bow string all the way back, swiggling, and swirving his way, until SNAP! the arrow is in the air. While two of his arrows landed in the grass before the targets, and two others in the white "no score" area, he did manage, by some stroke of the archery gods, to get a bullseye. He left happy. All smiles.

(Picture copyright The Northwestern)

AAAARRRRRRRRRHHHHHH!!!!!

For some reason, for the last week or so, whenever I try to update the blog and go to upload a pic, Safari quits on me. No, I don't want to send an error report. Thinking it was only a Safari problem, I tried it on Explorer and ............. aha! ................ same results. Nothing. And no, I don't want to send an error report. On both computers in the house.

My blame is on Blogger. Or my long fingers.

I haven't decided.

They both cause me problems.

Senior picture

Was asked to shoot the senior pictures for my future brother-in-law over the weekend. I gladly did it and tried to have some fun doing it. I know this shot has been done many times before, but it is my first time doing it and I think it came out pretty well -- although not super "senior picturey" -- it's just a fun pic.

Wisconsin?

You wouldn't know this is Wisconsin if I didn't tell you. But it is. A mother and daughter work in their plot at the Winnebago County Community Gardens. Copyright The Northwestern.

The one I am to marry

She likes bubbles. I like this picture.

And yes this is on her blog