McMenamins, Bend, US, 2014

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Karin Ott

I got a new camera. Not a replacement but a major upgrade, from Nikon D5100 to D610. If this is greek to you, don’t worry. You can live quite happily, probably more so, without knowing about cropped sensors and full frame. Let’s just say that I am very happy, intrigued – and not yet able to figure out all the settings. But what better place to practice than on a US vacation. Because I have to figure out the settings to take the images I want to take along the way.

Here are the first few examples from my current vacation. I’m sure many more will follow in due time 🙂

This image is from the soaking pool at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend, OR – a catholic school from 1936 turned into a hotel, brew pub, movie theatre and more.

 

Portrait, Holga 14, 2014

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The last image taken with a Holga lens this time around… I love the clean, crisp images of the DSLR but there’s a poetry in these kinds of images I want to explore further. I only wish it wasn’t so expensive to get film developed in Denmark. I would love to work with film cameras too.

The Baltic Sea, Holga 10, 2014

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This spring my family and I went on a weekend trip to Helsinki. More images will follow but right now I want to show what I got out of bringing the Holga lens with me on our day trip to Tallinn. I find I need some peace and quite to play with the lens but there isn’t a whole lot to do while crossing the Baltic Sea so here you are…