I was fortunate enough over the Christmas break to visit the beautiful coastline of north New South Wales with my partner. As usual, I took a bunch of cameras with me, including the Harinezumi and my trusty old Holga. I had purchased a new roll of film for the trip, Kodak Ektar 100. This film is touted as having fine grain and high saturation, which is great, but I was using it for the Holga - the unpredictable photobeast. So, who knows what would happen.
I have just got the photos developed and nearly every one of them is a dud! Completely washed out, with brown staining on the top and bottom of the negatives. I know it was warm up there, but I've taken the Holga out for a walk in the deserts of Arabia (ie, downtown Dubai) and the prints were fine despite the heat exposure. So, I'm at a loss to know what has caused this. I guess the roll was exposed to light somehow. But that's life with film! Here is one print I like, looking like a hand-tinted early Kodak; the lighthouse at Byron Bay.
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