I want you to know your blog means the world to me <3
What are your favorite cameras?
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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