Bits and pieces
These are the other photos from the cross-processed film to which I introduced you yesterday. See? There's just the one tree among them, mainly so as not to make the withdrawal too painful.
The Australian outback is a fantastic place for people who like rusty old cars. They are abandoned next to the road, right in the middle of nowhere, and quietly sit there rusting away for the next few decades, defenceless prey for car-part thieves and photographers alike. Nicole and I passed quite a few of these old cars on our way to Alice Springs and usually stopped to take a few pictures. So, decay fans, rejoice -- I have lots of pictures of rust coming up!
Just to prove that the Holga is a trickier camera than it looks, here's a shot that I didn't intend to come out this way. That shadow at the bottom wasn't supposed to be in the picture. I thought I'd managed to keep it out of the frame. I kind of liked it, so I decided not to crop it, but clearly I'm going to have to remember to get closer to my subject than I normally do, as the Holga records more than I see through the viewfinder.
How's this for a sparse landscape?
This is the Oodnadatta Track. We drove on this road for hundreds of miles, and it frequently got much worse than it looks in this picture. Is it any wonder we got a flat tyre?
This is an absolutely gorgeous mine we passed on the way to William's Creek. It looked magnificently colourful, but what with the big fences and "KEEP OUT -- TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED!" signs in front of it, it was rather hard to get good pictures of it.
Along the Oodnadatta Track, South Australia, Australia, 2007
Holga 120 CFN + artificially expired Fuji Velvia, cross-processed and scanned as Konica Centuria 100 6x6