My son Drew, at the age of 14 months, looks towards the camera, something he is now loathe to do after having his pictured snapped so many times over the ensuing ten years, while on one of our frequent strolls along Ross Avenue in East Dallas. (Guy Reynolds)
Drew was born in May of 2003, five weeks early and none too happy to be here. We learned early on that just going outside with him worked as a tonic for his fussiness. So I spent hours and hours and hours just walking him and exploring our East Dallas environs. This auto repair place is gone, as are all but one between Central and Peak on Ross after the zoning changed and they were forced to shut down or move.
On these wanders I started carrying my Holga, which I hadn’t used, to experiment with. The Holga is a plastic medium format film camera that yields square images with vignetting and imperfections. It’s the anti-digital darling of the photo world and I still use it on a semi-regular basis although my phone is now my camera of choice for snapshots. It cost me nothing to use my phone; film and processing cost cash and scanning negs takes time. But I still do it….