smalltownghosts

A photo diary

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Not abandoned!

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Hello out there

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I miss @smalltownghosts 😞

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I miss you too!

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Apocalypse songs

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Just wanted to thank you all for your kindness and support (and endless patience with my inconsistent posting habits) in 2023. What a year it was - so many highs and disastrous lows. I hope to see you in the next one.

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January 2016

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December 2015

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I want you to know your blog means the world to me <3

What are your favorite cameras?

Favorite locations?

How did you find the aesthetic (idk how else to put it) that you are so perfectly capturing?

How are you so amazing :3 ??

Any advice for an artist that’s trying to find what their ‘image’ is or whatever?

Oh my goodness, you flatter me! I don't think I'm deserving of this much praise, but I will try my best to answer your questions.

I'm honestly not that much of a gearhead, so I haven't tried as many cameras as I feel I should have. My favorite camera has to be my Yashica-A, even if I'm still very intimidated by it. Favorite camera I don't own is the Pentax 67, so, uh, Santa, if you're listening...

The Hi-Line in Montana, hands down.

I think it really just has to do with my upbringing. I was a very lonely kid, so I spent most of my time looking at my surroundings and daydreaming up stories. I grew up on a steady diet of 80s horror and Stephen King novels. Instead of hiring a babysitter, my dad would let my brother and I roam wild in salvage yards and abandoned houses, which fostered a love for decaying and rusted-out old things that has stuck with me. When I was a teenager I discovered David Lynch's work, and it had a huge impact on me, particularly the idea of another world existing at the edges of our own. I was obsessed with the sense of repetition in his imagery and it's something I think you can see me ripping off a lot, haha.

I can really only speak from personal experience here, but I've made no secret that this blog started out as an aesthetic blog and that inspired me tremendously. I really honed and refined my eye through collecting others' images. My advice would be to find the connective tissue, then find the gaps in your influences, and try to fill those gaps.

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I used to live in montana and spent the majority of my life there. Your pictures really remind me of what it was like to be a weird kid wandering around town, feeling really alone but not sad. I mean that in the best way possible. I've never seen anyone capture it, thank you.

Montana is the best place to be lonely. I appreciate this so much. Wishing you a warm and happy Thanksgiving 🍁

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every once in a while i find your blog on my feed and it’s like re-discovering memories i had no idea even existed. it feels a lot like walking into my childhood home and finding bits and pieces of myself. it’s such a beautiful experience. thank you for sharing your perspective of the world so i can find more things to admire despite having seen so little of it.

God, thank you so much. You get it 🤍

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I’ve been loving the archives you’re posting! I’m living in Missoula now, and it’s so funny to see pictures and feel nostalgic for a place you’re literally in, hahahaha

That’s so great, thank you! I hope you enjoy Missoula! It’s so different now to what it was back then, so I get nostalgic looking through my archive too.

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I asked the sky January 2017

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Hey, Lovely person, you never going to fuck her, so don't be stupid

Now is there really any need for all this?

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Hey, she's very pretty and takes the best photos. Be nice 😡

Thank you lovely person 🥺🤍🤍

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or youre just ugly

That too

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What do you look like?

There are a handful of photos of me on this blog. I’m not trying to be rude by not posting one, I just want my blog to be a space for how I see the world, not how the world sees me, you know?

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Disappeared from the face of the earth