DallasNagata.com - Photography, Art, and Writing by Dallas Nagata White » Uncategorized http://dallasnagata.com A blog by a photographer/artist from Hawaii. Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:16:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Koda In The Morning http://dallasnagata.com/2009/12/koda-in-the-morning/ http://dallasnagata.com/2009/12/koda-in-the-morning/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:38:46 +0000 admin http://dallasnagata.com/?p=298 Koda loves Kula so much better than Honolulu…green grass, cool mornings, and all the sticks she can chew!

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Gone to Maui until Wednesday!

(Also, don’t worry, I’m not checking any cameras etc. through luggage!)

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Photo I took back in 2006 with my kit lens and Digital Rebel!  Siena, Italy.  I miss Europe/traveling so much.

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Some people keep cheese in their refrigerator drawer. I don’t!

(And yes, that is some Polaroid Type 55 in there…and no, I”m not giving it up for anything!)

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Quick little painting I did…wishing for a Japanese Spitz of my own….

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My usual personal favorite is the mabo tofu curry with gyoza, while Kaeo often gets stewed shrimp or chicken cutlet curry.  On this day, Neil got a kalbi curry, while everyone else got gyoza curry.  Besides toppings, you can also customize the amount of rice you want, measured in grams!


However, my choice today was to get my mabo tofu curry with udon rather than rice. While Curry House offers take-out, the udon is only offered for in-house dining.

The udon took me forever to eat, since it stays so hot in the bowl, but it is delicious.  If you like curry, and haven’t been to Curry House yet, I highly recommend you go.

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The reason it’s so blurry on the edges is because of how the sensor and lens don’t quite match up, but I think it’s kind of awesome.  Photoshop-effect without the Photoshop!  Here are a few of my traditional Holga shots done with 120 film, and here are some far superior examples of Holga photography than mine.

Holga cameras are cheap, plastic cameras that are one of the most readily available for shooting medium format film.  They are famous for their distorting plastic lens and tendancy to leak light, giving the images a dreamy, nostalgic aesthetic.  In this day and age when it is easy to get a crisp, clear photography using a digital point-and-shoot, Holgas have become a tool for artistic, expressive imagery.

I highly recommend buying Holgas from HolgaMods.Com, as the cameras there are slightly modded to get past some of the more annoying traits (loose-winding film, etc.), while they still capture amazing pictures.  The site also has some neat information about the history of Holgas, as well as tons of fun modifications such as shutter releases, pinhole lenses, and more!

I’ll be back with better photo examples later!

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Some red/yellow/blue (and green!) action from my trusty G9.

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