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Holga Challenge – Your Town: Waco, Texas

Note: This is the second in a series of six stories that are being done by participants of the HooHaa Holga Challenge. The rest will run through Friday. See information for the rest at the bottom of this post.

By Mike Davis

Waco, Texas – Population 124, 805 as of 2010. Waco was founded in 1849 and is named for the Huaco Indians who lived in the area.

Located in the Heart of Texas, directly between Dallas and Austin, Waco was relatively quiet for some time. It gained some notoriety, perhaps infamy is the better word, in 1993 during the Branch Davidian Standoff. While the Davidians weren’t located in Waco city limits, we were the closest town to their compound.

President George W. Bush also chose Crawford, a little town outside Waco, as the location for his ranch and spent quite a bit of time there during his terms.

The Bosque River from Lover’s Leap

One of the jewels of Waco is William Cameron Park. Cameron Park in 416 acres inside the city limits located along the confluence of the Brazos and Bosque rivers.

The cliffs in the park were formed because of the Balcones fault that runs through the area. Lover’s Leap is a popular area of the park complete with a legend — A Huacoan Indian chief had a daughter named Wah-Wah-Tee who fell in love with a member of the Apache tribe. The two lovers had to run off together, as the Apaches and Huacos were enemies, but were intercepted by her angry father and brothers.

The tale ends with Wah-Wah-Tee kissing her lover before the two of them jumped from a cliff at the east end of the Bosque River and plummeted to their deaths.

Just to the top left of the Bosque River picture is the location of the Waco Mammoth Site where the bones of 24 Columbian mammoth were buried approximately 68,000 years ago when rapidly rising waters from the Bosque River flooded the site. They are currently working on receiving National Park status for the site.

Jacob’s Ladder

The park is also home to the Cameron Park Zoo, as well as some of the top-rated hiking and mountain biking trails in Texas.

A true test of fitness is a hike up the 87 unevenly spaced steps that make up Jacob’s Ladder.

Waco Suspension Bridge

Continuing down the Brazos River, we find Waco’s iconic symbol, the Waco Suspension Bridge.

Built in 1869 by the renowned New York firm of John A. Roebling Co., the firm that had originated the suspension span bridge concept, and later oversaw the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the bridge spanned 475 feet and contained nearly 3 million locally produced bricks.

The bridge helped Waco grow along the Chisolm Trail.

It was closed to vehicular traffic in 1971 but is still in use today.

ALICO Building

Another Waco icon is the ALICO building. Built as the home of the Amicable Life Insurance Company in 1911, the ALICO building’s 22 floors made it the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

At one point the building was entirely self-sufficient, with an electrical generator, oil wells across the Bosque River to fuel its heating system, and an Artesian well for water. The bottom floors were damaged in 1953 during a tornado that devastated most of downtown Waco.

The building is still in use and still the tallest building in Waco.

McLennan County Courthouse

Waco is the county seat of McLennan County.

The McLennan County Courthouse was built in 1901 by architect J. Reily Gordon. The Beaux-Arts style building is said to have been inspired by St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome.

On top of the courthouse’s dome is a small lantern, crowned by a statue of Themis, the Greek goddess of divine law and justice. The statue is holding the scales of Justice in her left hand and the hilt of a sword in her right. The dome is also ringed by eight eagles.

The roof and dome have recently gone through restoration giving Themis the blade of her sword back.

Dr Pepper Museum

Waco’s most famous export product was created at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store.

Dr Pepper, created in 1885, pre-dates Coca-Cola by about a year. Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist working at Morrison’s store, is believed to be the inventor of the now famous drink.

The Artesian Mfg. & Bottling Company, which later became Dr Pepper Company, is now the home of the Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute. The museum houses all sorts of soft drink memorabilia and the Institute provides a hands-on lab where students learn how to create and market their own beverages.

If you were wondering, Dr Pepper dropped the “.” in the 1950’s. The 1906 Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the “Home of Dr Pepper.”

Pat Neff Hall

Waco was known as the “Athens on the Brazos” during the 1880s because it was fast becoming the hub of education in the Lone Star State.

In 1881, Paul Quinn College moved to Waco from Austin; AddRand College (later changed its name to Texas Christian University) moved to Waco in 1895, in 1882, a city tax was levied to fund the Waco Public Schools; and in 1886 Waco University and Baylor University consolidated locations in Waco.

Waco is still home to McLennan Community College, a Texas State Technical College, and Baylor University. Baylor was founded in 1845 and is the state’s oldest continually operating private university. Baylor moved from Independence, Texas in 1885.

Baylor has actually been a university longer than Texas has been a state.

Pat Neff Hall was opened in 1939 and is home to the Administrative Offices, as well as the McLane Carillon. The instrument was built by the Paccard Bell Foundry of Annecy, France. The weight of the bells ranges from 29 pounds to 4,370 pounds, with a total weight of more than 22 tons.

Judge R.E. Baylor

Rufus C. Burleson

Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, a native of Kentucky, moved to Texas where he co-founded Baylor University with the Reverend William Tryon and Reverend James Huckins, the first Baptist missionary to Texas. He was elected judge of the district and supreme courts of the Republic of Texas and was a member of the convention that framed the State constitution of Texas in 1845.

Rufus C. Burleson was the second president of Baylor.

He was accused by William Cowper Brann of fathering a child with a young Brazilian girl who lived with the Burlesons, eventually leading to his demotion to President Emeritus in 1897 despite being found innocent by a grand jury. The building behind his statue is part of the Burleson Quadrangle, the first common area to the students at the Waco campus.

Founders Mall

Just behind Old Main, and the R.E. Baylor Statue, is Founders Mall and this column monument.

According to Michael White’s History of Baylor University 1845-1861, the memorial is built of stones from Tyron Hall, a building from Baylor’s original Independence campus about 80 miles west of Houston. The memorial also contains pieces of Old Main, Carroll Science Building, Alexander Residence Hall and Pat Neff Hall.

Buried beneath the monument is a time capsule from 1945, when the stones were dedicated for Baylor’s centennial celebration.

RGIII

A visit to Baylor wouldn’t be complete without paying homage to a young man who brought a new spark to are generally less-than-stellar athletics program (with apologies to women’s basketball, this is Texas and football is king.)

Robert Griffin III led our football program to our first bowl game in years, our first bowl win in years, and then he went ahead and won the Heisman Trophy for excellence in football this year.

Lake Waco Dam

He did all of this while completing his Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master in Communications. He was the second overall pick in the NFL draft and, much to my chagrin, will be playing for the Washington Redskins. He kicked off “The Year of the Bear” that had us set an NCAA record for combined wins in football, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball and saw all of our teams appearing in post-season play. Needless to say, I’m a touch excited.

There is much more to Waco than I could ever cover in 12 photos.

Waco has been a great place to grow up. It has just the right mix of activities and its proximity to larger cities provides one with outlets for just about everything else without having to deal with traffic. We have access to sports, great golf courses, good food and plenty of other activities.

See more of Mike on the web:

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Day 1: Totness, England

Day three of the HooHaa Holga Challenge is Tuesday, with Shaima M and Geneva, Switzerland.

Holga Challenge – Your Town: Totnes, England

Fore Street and East Gate Arch (photo by Becca Gulliver)

Note: This is the first in a series of six stories that are being done by participants of the HooHaa Holga Challenge. The rest will run through Friday.

Second note: Becca had some issues with her camera for this project and only has seven of 12 images for her town.

By Becca Gulliver

This was a challenge in in every sense of the word.

Devon has had one of the wettest, dullest summers I can remember. Then add to that a Holga that was accidentally drop-kicked across a car park, causing the back to fly off, the film to pop out and land in a coiled heap about a foot away.

I had to kiss goodbye to that roll of Ilford Delta. Whilst scooping up my belongings from the parking bay, it didn’t even occur to me that the impromptu game of football could have caused any damage.

North Gate (photo by Becca Gulliver)

This was something that wouldn’t come to light until both films were developed. My Holga now appears to be permanently stuck in B mode (bulb) and if you shake it you can hear something rattling inside.

At least I can still use it for low-light shooting. Anyway, enough about that.

Most of my shots were taken in the Totnes area of South Devon (England), using a Holga 120gn, Ilford Delta 400 and Fuji Superia X-tra 400.

Here I stand and here I rest. And this town shall be called Totnes. – Brutus of Troy

Totnes is a small market town, with a population of between 7,000 – 8,000 people.

Situated inland within a nationally recognized Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it is a short drive to some fantastic beaches (the nearest beach is a 15-minutes drive).

Bridgetown (photo by Becca Gulliver)

If you go further inland, you have the wide expanse of wilderness known as Dartmoor to explore.

Central Totnes is built on a hill, which has the River Dart at the bottom and the Totnes Castle at the top.

On the other side of the river you have the suburb of Bridgetown, which is where I live.

Totnes is very old. The first recorded history of the town was in 907 AD, which makes it the second oldest borough in England.

Because of the age of the of the town, the architecture is varied and even boasts one of the oldest Norman Motte and Bailey castles, a medieval church and Tudor buildings alongside more modern offerings of the 18th, and subsequent centuries.

River Dart and Totnes Bridge (photo by Becca Gulliver)

During the 12th century it was an important and thriving market town and in very prosperous times minted it’s own coins.

Nowadays, it probably comes across as quite sleepy at times, but Totnes everything but. It certainly seems to have more than it’s fair share of artists (painters, potters, woodwork, metal work, fine art printing and photography, just to mention a few) and musicians.

The music scene is pretty varied with live bands and electronic music nights during most weekends. We probably have the largest DJs per capita than anywhere else.

Dartington Hall (photo by Becca Gulliver)

If music and art isn’t your thing then we also have a lot of people into alternative lifestyles and alternative medicines.

I would imagine it’s possible to find treatments from most corners of the world here.

Until recently we also had an internationally known art college, which unfortunately was relocated despite protests from the locals.

There is so much one could say about Totnes, but for more information about the town, type in Totnes in Google.

Other images from Becca’s series on her town are below:

Totnes Castle.

Path.

Becca on the web:

Day two of the HooHaa Holga Challenge is Monday, with Mike Davis and Waco, Texas. 

Foto Friday: The HooHaa Holga Challenge

My uncle (left) and cousin look over an RC plane in a Holga shot I took a few years ago.

Regular readers of the blog will remember a Foto Friday post I did a few weeks ago where I talked about a fellow photographer using film. I noted the lone film I used — and even that very rarely — is 120 film with my Holga camera.

A Holga is a plastic toy camera. Its lens isn’t glass and it takes “dreamy” and old-school images. These images can have all sorts of looks, from vignetting, to a blur to light leaks to distortions. It’s really quite wild.

According to Wikipedia, the Holga camera first appeared in 1981 as a low-cost camera. It was made in Hong Kong.

The thing is, with digital the way it is, film has become a secondary medium for photography. It’s almost nostalgia. That makes it a bit more interesting, too, when dealing with the “toy” cameras, such as a Holga or a Diana. Cameras like Polaroids have cult-like followings now.

After thinking about this for a while, I uncovered my Holga and dusted it off. I knew I wanted to use it a bit more. So I tweeted Mike (who was mentioned in the initial Holga post) asking him if he had a Holga, which he does. That led me to start thinking about a challenge. And, of course, I was thinking of a way to bring it to the readers of HooHaa Blog.

So, we came up with a “My town” sort of challenge.

I also decided to see what I could find on Twitter in regard to Holga shooters. When all was said and done, I ended up with six people (including myself and Mike) who are willing to take part in this challenge. We will cover different parts of the globe — from three places in the United States to Kuwait to Switzerland to the United Kingdom. This will be one fun challenge.

The rules of the challenge are simple enough:

  • Two rolls of 120 film — one color, one black and white. ISO will be 400 for both.
  • The participant takes two rolls of their home area — a radius of 15 miles from their home address.
  • Each roll will have 12 exposures, thus 24 total photos.
  • Of the 24 images, 12 will be chosen for this challenge. A minimum of three images must come from each roll.

The challenge starts this Monday — May 14. Photographers will have a month to get things done and all photos will be taken by June 11. Then, from June 17-22, each person will have a guest blog post on A ‘lil HooHaa talking about their images, their town and anything else they want to add. It will give readers a chance to see the views of other towns in this world — whether buildings, landscape, people, sports — anything — that shows the area.

I can’t express how I am excited for this challenge. We’re doing this in a friendly way — as a way to show this medium of photography and a way to learn and see how others do things. I’m stoked to see the images from this challenge as it seems like people live in different size places and I really think being able to see other parts of the world will be fun.

Also, I hope this won’t be the last time I run this challenge. In fact, I’m already starting to think of other challenges to do with Holgas and such that I can do on the site. But one at a time!

To start this challenge, I would like to introduce you to the five other people who are taking part in it, with one of their past Holga photos.

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One of Jeff’s favorite past Holga shots. Copyright and all rights reserved to the photographer.

Name: Jeff Soderquist
Location: Seattle, Washington
Holga used:  120N (for this challenge); Holga 120WPC.
Photo interests: Beyond shooting with my Holga 120N, I am an avid pinhole photographer. My photographic interests fall into two categories, encompassing urban and natural landscapes. Living and working in downtown Seattle I’m fascinated by the daily functions of a densely populated urban center, and strive to capture it on film. I wouldn’t classify my style as street, but it contains elements of it. I’m much more interested in capturing the human movement over time through long pinhole exposures and supplementing it with more intimate subject matter. Beyond the confines of the city, I’m an avid hiker and landscape photographer. Weekends are often spent out on the coast or in the mountains wandering alone along trails with my cameras. I find this time to be very relaxing and self-reflective and strive to convey that through my photographs and accompanied writing.
On the web: 

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One of Becca’s favorite past Holga shots. Copyright and all rights reserved to the photographer. 

Name: Becca G
Location: Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom
Holga used: 120GN
Photo interests:  I shoot digital, 35mm and medium format film, using a variety of different cameras.
On the web:

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One of Nada’s favorite past Holga shots. Copyright and all rights reserved to the photographer. 

Name: Nada
Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
Holga used: Holga CFN 120
Photo interests: I don’t like to limit myself to one style, but I find myself mostly doing either street photography or abstract.
On the web:

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One of Shaima’s favorite past Holga shots. Copyright and all rights reserved to the photographer.

Name: Shaima M (also known as Shayouma on some blogs)
Location: Versoix, Geneva, Switzerland
Holga used: 120N
Photo interests: Basically, I love Street Photography. I love photographing my kids as well. I would do nature on very rare occasions, when there’s a scene in front of me.
On the web:

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One of Mike’s favorite past Holga shots. Copyright and all rights reserved to the photographer.

Name: Mike Davis
Location: Waco, Texas
Holga used: 120CFN
Photo interests: Instagram, Hipstamatic, DSLR, underwater or whatever.
On the web:

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I look forward to seeing what these photographers bring to this challenge. I think it will be a wonderful way to see other parts of the country and the world and am excited for the results!

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Foto Friday: Film? What is this film of which you speak?

At an airshow.

I recently had a “conversation” on Twitter with a fellow photographer. Readers of this blog should remember Mike as he occasionally stops by with a guest post.

What started this was a post he had done about getting film developed:

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Being that Mike has some pretty sweet digital equipment, this took me off guard.

Film?

They still make that stuff?

So, I figured I should look into it…

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Of course, you know where this will eventually venture.

It got me thinking about the Holga camera I had somewhere. I haven’t used it in two or three years. Over that time, I’ve gotten two major accessories for my digital DLR that made the Holga almost unnecessary — a Diana lens and a pinhole lens.

Holga shot from Montreal.

The Holga is a plastic toy camera. It uses 120 film (which, in this day and age, isn’t the cheapest to get developed and most of the time you need to send it away to get done) and can be quite fun to use. Light leaks, blurs, and vignetting is normal on the finished photo. Sometimes, there’s double exposures on the shots. It’s really quite wild.

The camera itself isn’t that old as it was first brought out in the early 1980s. But the look of the images makes the camera feel like a total throwback.

The Diana — another toy camera — has a lot of the same results, but more of a blur. That’s what the lens does on my camera. And the pinhole cover gives my DSLR the full feel of an old pinhole camera.

A double-exposure of the game "pong."

But the Holga… oh how fun it is.

But why do I need it? I have my iPhone. And with apps such as Hipstamatic, I can get the feel of a Holga. And, again, it’s digital. Instant gratification is possible, which is a good thing.

Alas, as someone who learned photography with film, I always have a fondness for it. But I am not into just taking one of my old 35mm cameras and going out and shooting. To me, I’d rather shoot digital. But a Holga?

Hmmm…

So I found my old Holga, dusted it off and checked it out. I then decided it was time to use this sucker again. After all, what’s the point of having such a fun camera if I never use it?

I went to Amazon in search of some 120 film and found decent prices. I grabbed a roll of 3200 ISO for this weekend in hopes of trying to get a cool shots of the Relay For Life. Now, I don’t know for sure how well it will come out as I have no control over F-stop and all that good stuff. So we’ll see what happens.

I also bought a roll of 400 ISO. I tried to purchase another the next day when Amazon apparently re-stocked, but it wouldn’t let me. It kept saying the following:

We’re sorry. This item has limited purchase quantity. We have changed your purchase quantity to the maximum allowable.

Being I wanted to order one or two others, I decided to take it to Amazon customer help and here’s what I was told:

The quantity limit to purchase it is 1. A quantity limit is the maximum number of any item that can be purchased in a 7 day period.
These limits cannot be increased. Items with quantity restrictions have very low prices and/or a limited supply, and we want to ensure that many customers are able to order these items. As our prices and product supply change, these limits may change too

Seriously? You won’t let me purchase more than one of these rolls in a week to be “fair?”

Isn’t the idea of a store to sell what they can?

Sheesh.

Anyway, I got one roll and that was good for now. They both arrived today, so I look forward to trying out the Holga again this weekend.

With the Relay for Life and with a few other things. Maybe some disc golf on Sunday, too. And it also got the creative juices flowing again. Mike and I are trying to hash out a challenge we’ll be doing where we each take a roll with our Holgas. If anyone reading this is a Holga shooter and wants to get in on it, let me know. The end results will hopefully be a couple of fun blog posts about the challenge.

I won’t be doing a ton of film because it’s expensive to get developed!

But I am into checking it out to see what I can do again. And have some fun with it.

Any of you still do film? A Holga? Any other interesting cameras?

Fundraiser: I am, again, trying to raise money for the Relay For Life. If you donate to me — even a small amount — you will be entered to win a super-sweet quilted scarf. Click here for all the information!

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Foto Friday: Feeling hip with hipstamatic

No, I won't be throwing aside the DSLR. But Hipstamatic makes the "regular" photos real fun again. (Lucifer VI Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film)

I feel like I’m getting hipper by the day.

You see, it’s all about photographs with me. I love having a cell phone that does the things it’s supposed to do — you know, make phone calls or text. But with the iPhone, there are so many other great things. As I’ve posted before, the photographs it can take are really incredible.

(Side note — people with the iTouch or other things that can download Apple apps can use all of this, too).

I recently started looking at Hipstamatic again. I downloaded it shortly after getting the iPhone, but wasn’t too interested. I figured I had wasted the $2 I spend on it and chalked it up to a learning experience.

John S Lens, DC Film

With the recent release of Hiptamatic Disposable (more on that later in the post), my interest raised again.

I’m glad it did.

For those of you who like the old plastic/toy film cameras — or just the look of old images, Hipstamatic is a perfect fit. With the beauty of having some iTunes gift cards still on my account, I splurged and purchased the bulk of the add-on packages for the app. That means, for this wonderful “film” camera, I have 10 lenses, 13 types of “film” and eight different flashes. Now, remember that the app itself comes with a good variety of lenses/film/flashes, so one doesn’t have to purchase the additional items to really enjoy the app. I just so happened to have some iTunes money remaining and was very curious about all the additional things.

It also appears that there are other special packages — lenses, films, cases etc. Maybe these come out for special occasions or were used once and now gone. Hopefully they’ll be back because I’d like to keep building my Hipstamatic collection as I think this will be an app I use quite often in many different situations.

Helga Viking Lens, Float Film

And after doing some research, it looks as though some things — once gone — are gone for good. And it stinks, because two of the most recent ones were Winter 2010 and December 2010. Both look like awesome additions (especially the Winter 2010 one) and I can’t get ’em. Argh!

One of the coolest things with this app is you can shake it when open and it will give you random mixes of film/lenses. So you can have all sorts of wild combinations of everything.

Over the past few days, I have tested things a little. I’ve shaken the camera, used certain combos on purpose and generally just wanted to see what this app could do.

Chunky Lens, Blanko Noir Film

I like it.

I own a Holga, which is a plastic film camera. It does a lot of the stuff that this app does. But the best part about the app is that it’s all digital and I don’t have to pay for expensive processing on 120 film! (Though I do have several rolls of 120 I need to get developed from the Holga). After messing around with this app, I realize now I can get the same setup as with the Holga — and with many more options.

Now I realize many people still love film. They love that feel and everything that goes along with it. I’m fine with that. But I don’t like it anymore. I can’t afford every aspect of it. It adds up. I can snap hundreds of photos now and delete what I don’t need. When I use my DSLR, I still mess with settings as I would on a film SLR. The difference? I’m not wasting film. I can see right away what I need to do to switch things around. I do miss some things about film, specifically black and white in the darkroom. I loved the smell of the chemicals and being able to do different things during the process.

Chunky Lens, Pistil Film

For those who have worked in a dark room, can’t you still somewhat smell the D-76 developer or picture the stop bath stopping the developing? All under that red light?

But, that was then. This is now. And seeing something instantaneously is what I like now.

Anyway, back to what was being discussed.

This app takes away all of that, but at the same time gives you one heck of a film look — in color and black and white. The films are very cool and give you different feels. Same with the lenses. Eventually, I’ll test the flashes out a little bit, too.

The app, much like these old cameras, is a bit quirky. You can line something up and the image will come off as off-centered (note the mailboxes image). There are little things to learn as you go along with the app, which makes it even more fun.

The best, however, is that you can get instant satisfaction, unlike the day of the film. I won’t like — I used to love the rush of picking up a roll of film — but as things are in this day and age, this is just as much fun. And if you really want prints of these images, you can order them through the Hipstamatic website, or find a place where you can take the digital file and have it done somewhere else.

Lucifer VI Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film

Hipstamatic Disposable

As I noted earlier in this post, there’s another Hipstamatic product that I have been really enjoying. In fact, it’s this product that made me get back into Hipstamatic.

The basis behind this app is a disposable camera. But, it gives you an even more realistic feel of a disposable camera — you can’t see the images until you finish the roll (24 exposures). Once you finish the roll, you will see them all.

Incredibly cool.

Molson -- as taken with Hipstamatic Disposable (taken with the D-Fault camera)

What’s even better is that there’s many different types of cameras, too. You get three free when you get the app (which, for the record, is free). There are seven more you can purchase. Of those seven, four give you unlimited use of the camera for $.99. The other three have different price levels — 9 cameras (at 24 exposures each) for $.99, 36 cameras for $1.99 or 99 cameras for $3.99.

Each of the cameras do something different — and give you a different look. I have a few going right now. One of the cameras is a black-and-white camera, which is cool.

The best part of this camera?

You can share. That means you and others can all be using the camera at the same time. Once the camera is finished, you and all the others get access to the camera and get all the images. How cool is that? As of now, however, it’s based on your Facebook profile.

Someone posted to the Hipstamatic Disposable page on Facebook, however, and asked if there would be a time when others can be invited without using Facebook and someone from the company responded that they were working on that. That is excellent news because I keep my Facebook king of low-key and only really add people I know in real life. To know that I might be able to share photos with someone via Twitter or e-mail or something is excellent news. I hope it happens soon as this app is one I’m really liking a lot.

I have a few other cameras going at this time and hope to eventually have it all set up so I can share cameras with people throughout the US and world. I think it would be a lot of fun to see things through the eyes of other people and this app really is giving us a chance. Kudos to Hipstamatic on this app and I hope it continues to grow.

Some external links to check out (added after initial post):

Note: Foto Friday is a new feature I plan to do each week. It’s not going to be just a photo, it’s going to be one or more of my favorite photos of the week, with explanations or stories behind them. The images might come from my DSLR or my iPhone and some other app. With getting back into the 366 project this year, I’ll be taking photos more, so hopefully I’ll have more images to share. Foto Friday also might be something else to do with photography — a guest post, perhaps, or something like this post about a product or something else.

I used “Foto” as a throwback to the old Fotomat drive-thru developing booths. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy this new feature at A ‘lil HooHaa!

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