Short post today to share the results of my 5 submissions for the Photographic Center Northwest’s Chase the Light photo event and fundraiser. Always glad to support non-profits that I have personal connection to. Had fun on a one day shoot to Eastern Washington. Shot on a combination of my Hasselblad film camera and my Holga toy plastic camera, got some stunning images to show. Can you guess which one they selected as available to purchase?

As you can tell, it was perfect weather!!! Large puffy clouds, which make for beautiful skies, as well as providing shadows on the land below - these are great for providing a sense of distance (foreground, middle ground, and background) and much preferable to pure blue skies. I lucked out! In fact, I took quite a bit of other images, which will show up along the way.

If you’d like to see more of my work, I post quite often, and with images that don’t show up on my website. If you like what you see, please check out my instagram, where I post the most (average of 3x/week): instagram.com/tazarat. Ok, for the winning image that the jurors of the event chose: it was #1, the barn and wildflowers taken with my Holga camera. This camera is imperfect, and includes lots of light leaks, both in the camera body (which is pressed plastic), and in the film loading/unloading. The film is never tight enough, so when I open the cover on the camera, the film is not rolled tightly enough, so light can get in from the edges (which for medium-format film has a paper backing and is not sealed in a plastic capsule like with 35mm film). So the weird pink and white streaks are from too much light outside of the camera!

Which images is your favorite? Which would you have chosen as the “single” image to have available for sale to raise funds?