I like this quote:

"...I've found nearly all of my emotional inspiration for my photography in anything but photography."

One reason your photography is so different to what other people are doing, I have no doubt!

I deal in a less conceptual realm of photography, where my subjects are what they are, and it's hard to project my own vision onto them with any clear story or theme. The best I can hope for with landscape photography is to convey a tangible feeling.

With my more creative photos I've wanted for a long time to draw more inspiration from external sources, but nothing I've made so far really shows this.

I did once directly copied a painting from Norman Rockwell - of course, there's no additional artistic merit in my photo, but it was a fun exercise nonetheless. ;)

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