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This is the first exposure from the first roll of film through my new Holga 120WPC that I got for Christmas.

To be honest, I'm just a smidgen shy of astonishment that anything on the roll turned out at all - let alone the very first image. I was a bit skeptical (and hesitant) to send these first few rolls away for development as I figured it was akin to burning my money, but I was delighted this evening when I got both rolls back and all the images actually turned out.

Have a lot to work on still. I would like to get to the point where exposure and composition (no viewfinder) doesn't feel like absolute guesswork with a shrug of the shoulders and a cross of the fingers. And to figure out why the shutter often gets stuck open when I use a cable release. I also had a plan to scribble down my exposure time for each frame for future reference (that didn't happen, and I wish I had). Oh well, new challenges.

Anyway, here's picture number one of what will hopefully be many from this camera.

The view of three little shells.

Fields and skies and silhouettes.

One from the Minolta X-700 in January.