The Wookbläk is truly a magnificent camera. It is made from a single block of wood by Kurt Mottweiler. It’s beautiful to look at and to use. Everything about it is just easy. To load the film you simply pull the back off of the camera which is being attached by very strong magnets. The winding knobs very smoothly usher the film through the camera. Kurt outfitted my camera with a strap so It’s convenient to carry around with me when I’m out for a walk. It’s a little bit bigger than my Reality So Subtle so I don’t take it traveling with me as much as that one. However, my husband and I took a quick weekend vacation in California, and I decided to pack it because I wanted to see how well it would travel.

I loaded it with Lomogrqaphy Color Negative 100, which is a very inexpensive film and does a fine job but can be prone to fat rolls. This is the film I used most recently in my R.S.S. and I notice when I use this film in that particular camera the film gets stuck at the end of the roll and I have a fat roll. luckily, in the Woodbläk, there was no fat roll when I took this film out of the camera.

I shot this roll of film at Hearst Castle, and the towns of Cambria and Harmony on the Central California coast. I also shot a few frames at Mission San Miguel. I will share the results in a later post.