from hooray! to huh?

back in february i did a post about my new friend holga

oh, all the lovely times to be had

throughout these months i have snippety snapped away, and each time a small smile would fall upon my face, just at the idea of how the photo i just took would actually turn out.

you see, i was very optimistic.

so much so, that i planned on placing all my first Holga shots in their very own book.

well, on wednesday i strolled merrily into my local Walgreens and handed over my little roll of wonder.

they’d be developed in about an hour.

i walked out of there with nugget and a tiny new star in my right eye, a star of anticipation & quite seriously… glee! and no, i’m not exaggerating, i am easily glee-ified.

not one minute after i got into my kitchen and set down my bags, did my phone ring. man am i popular i thought, followed by, is this person spying on me?

well, turns out i’m not that popular and no one is spying on me. it was just the nice girl from Walgreens.

what could it be?

insert  sound of a loud pop followed by an extremely lengthy fizzle

her: Hi Amy, the roll of film you just dropped off is black

me: uh-huh, and does this mean there’s nothing you can do for it?

i literally said that! as though they could revive my black roll of film with bitty hospital like contraptions made especially for these unfortunate cases.

i am still not sure what went wrong. although i have an idea that i don’t want to be true which is, i think i might have gotten a fake Holga!

i just checked the guy on ebay and under my investigation there are definitely some signs that indeed, my Holga might not ever take pictures.

i know i should’ve been more thorough before i purchased her. but you know me, buy now, cry like a big loser later.

well. i hope i’m wrong. but truly, she’s got one more chance and then she’ll just be added to my non-working camera collection. which is really sad.

oh well. live and learn yes?

pleh.

xo