7 Squared, 49 Pictures of San Francisco

What started out as a fun adventure to shoot a few San Francisco cityscape pictures with my Holga plastic camera, turned into a two year project of exploration and rediscovery of the many places and iconic landmarks that I love in the city in which I have calld home for most of my adult life. Shooting with a Holga camera strips down the experience to the basics. You have none of the controls, bells and whistles that you see on digital cameras today. One shutter speed, only two aperture settings, a manual film advance and a very approimate focus ring is all that you get with this plastic camera. You are left with the raw materials of subject, light and the photographer’s eye along with a bit of trial-and-error, to capture your envisioned image. My aim in using a Holga was to make images that look somewhat more retro in appearance, quirky and a little offbeat.