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Two Minute Tuesday.
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What's up, everybody?
Peter McKinnon here.
Welcome back to yet another Two Minute Tuesday.
It's so great to have you here
and see all of your smiling faces.
It's been a minute.
It's been a few minutes.
It's been a few months.
Has it been a few months since the last time
we did a Two Minute Tuesday?
it kinda just fell off the radar a little bit
because we've been busy with other projects
and short films and cool stuff like that.
We'll just try to make a little more of an effort
to make these consistent next year,
but let's start with one by
throwing two minutes on the clock.
Probably not gonna stick to it, but I'll do my best.
Today we're talking about my five favorite,
most inspirational Instagram accounts that get me fired up.
And I figured I would share them with you
so you guys could see some new artists.
Maybe pick up a couple new accounts to follow yourselves.
These people are amazing.
These are the people, when I login
and they post new photos, I'm like, oh,
why can't I take photos like that?
Like, how?
How are you doing that?
These guys.
These are my notes.
Let's begin.
Account number one.
Can we have like a cool title here?
Like, account number one.
Okay, number one.
Probably one of my most favorite Instagramers.
Favorite photographers on entire platform, Aaron Brimhall.
It is Aaronbhall on Instagram,
and if we just pull up his grid here,
ooh, it looks so good all the time.
Does a lot of automotive stuff.
Not that big of a car guy,
but this dude's photos, his portraits,
everything is always in action,
and I admire that so much.
It's never just really a car sat there.
Or a helicopter about to take off.
It's always something in motion.
The cars are ripping, the motorcycles are mid-wheelie,
and there's mud flying,
or someone's flying off the motorcycle
and the tones from this account, they're just great.
It's not overdone, it's not over the top.
It's not, like, not enough.
There's a great mix of stuff,
and it's just like a really high action account.
I don't how he only has 203K,
'cause this dude is, I don't even know how he's not verified
because he should have, like, five,
there should be five check marks next to Aaron's name.
This dude's amazing, so, Aaron Brimhall.
Moving on, number two.
Visuals of Julius.
Julius.
I think that's how you say her name, bro.
We were just texting.
We were just talking through DMs here,
because he just hit 200K, so congrats, man.
You did it.
This guy, he's a photographer,
but also like a visual artist.
He doesn't claim that these photos, nope, that's real.
The moon was that big,
and the swing was, he adds a lot of these in.
Composites or composites, however you like to say it.
Garage, garaje.
Nobody says garaje.
I think my sister might say garaje.
It's the weirdest thing.
You know what I hate?
I hate when people say shedual.
Throw it up on the shedual.
I'm like, what?
You don't say shoul.
I'm going to shoul today.
You say I'm going to school,
and I'll check the schedule when I get to school.
Anyways, let's get back on track.
This dude's account is just kinda like fantasy photography.
It's like his imagination.
It's his creativity.
And you can really see it just exploding
throughout this Instagram page.
All the colors match, everything looks great,
and it just kinda gives you a taste of the real world,
but not the real world at all.
So there's elements of the real world,
but then elements of a fantasy world,
and I kinda like that it feels
like I'm inside his imagination
which is really cool looking at these photos.
So whenever he posts a new one, it's always a banger.
So Visuals of Julius.
Dope account, dude.
Dope account.
This is one of the first guys that I ever
started following on Instagram, Alex Strohl.
He's been right here at the office, actually.
We only got to hang out for like an hour,
and that whole hour was me telling him
how great of a photographer he is.
But he is the first one to really post so many pictures
of (murmuring) that got me inspired
to go into the mountains when I was younger
working part-time for different jobs
looking at his photos thinking one day
I wanna be shooting mountains like that.
Like, look at these photos.
Look at that water!
Is it actually that blue?
Yeah, it is.
So being able to meet him and see his account,
it's always changing, the style's always changing,
but like that underlying style is always there.
Alex Strohl, one of the best
landscape photographers that I know
and that I have the privilege of following.
And it's just so cool that these people
are all on Instagram just making a living
doing their thing, posting photos every day.
When you look at accounts like Alex Strohl,
all the photos, one after the other, they're just all good.
You're like, come on, man, just post a bad one.
Just once.
Just post a really garbage photo, man,
to make us all feel better.
Again, not super overdone.
Kind of a little bit softer.
Not heavy on the contrast.
It's not just rah, rocking that clarity thing
right up to the top; they're just nice.
They're just really nice photographs.
They're beautiful photographs of beautiful destinations.
So, Alex Strohl.
Good stuff, man.
Good stuff.
He also rides snowmobiles.
Alright, number four.
This guy is not really a landscape photographer.
His name is John Stoffer.
I believe that's how you pronounce it.
He does a lot of interiors
and architectural stuff with coffee
and just rich tones and drinks.
It just makes me feel warm all the time.
When I get to this guy's account, I feel like it's winter
and the fire is crackling,
and he just made a nice whisky,
and there's great shots of whisky on here and drinks
and it's just a really cool account
that's totally different from
a lot of the stuff that I follow.
And that's one of the reasons I really like it
because it's not just another landscape for me.
Those are my favorite types of photos to take.
Inherently those are the majority of people
that I follow are landscape photographers.
I've been following this guy for years.
Years and years and years,
and his style has remained consistent throughout.
The grid looks great.
The interiors, the whites,
all the rich tones of that deep leather.
I'm into that kinda thing.
I just appreciate that he's been able
to keep that going for so long.
And, again, another photographer that's just so talented.
70K, like, I don't understand.
John, you're amazing.
If you ever see this video, we've never talked in life,
but you take great photos, man.
That's all.
I mean, that's not all that you're probably,
as far as this is concerned.
Stop it.
Stop talking.
Alright and number five is a guy by the name of Theron.
I believe that's his name.
His account is This Wild Idea.
Now, this guy was probably one of the very first accounts
I clicked follow on when I opened my own Instagram account.
I was like, alright, who do I go follow?
This guy looks cool.
And he would take his dog all over the country,
all over the world, Maddie.
I believe it was a coon hound,
and they had put it all over the place.
She would stand on boats
and on things coming out of the water
and rocks, and just the weirdest creative places
this dog would end up.
And the account is just very lifestyle.
It's very lifestyle.
There's a great mix; an eclectic mix, if you will,
of different types of photos of this guy
and his adventures with his best friend, his dog.
And I love that.
And again, his brand has stayed true throughout
the entirety of the time
I've been following him on Instagram.
And I just really enjoy his content.
It's not over the top.
It's just good.
It's just good photos, so This Wild Idea,
another one of my favorites.
Okay, and number six, just 'cause I'm feeling
like we need a bonus; we need a bonus IG account
to throw up there that inspires me.
No other than Hello Emilie, with IE, not a Y.
This girl, banger photos.
Actually ridiculous photos.
Tones, the grid, the whole.
It's just, look at this.
It just looks so good.
So many creative little clever, beautifully lit photos,
like all of these, just the scissors in the middle,
and all the, what is that, leaves or wood?
It's just, it's incredible.
There's so much work that goes into this.
All the photos look great.
One of my favorite accounts to follow.
She's just crushing it.
She's crushing it and I love it.
Definitely go check her stuff out.
All of these links, all of these people
that we've been mentioning, we've been talking about
throughout this video, you can find them below.
All their accounts there.
Give them some love, check out their stuff,
say hello for me; Pete sent me, what's up?
You don't have to do that,
but, you know, it'd be cool if you just did a couple.
That's it, guys, we're done.
That's six.
That two minutes is, hoo, I know I blew past it.
I'm sorry.
I'm not sorry at all.
I'm sorry for not posting Two Minutes Tuesdays.
Tuesdays that are two minutes, the two minute mark.
Two minutes timers.
Two minutes.
It's never two minutes.
10 minutes.
It's 20 minutes.
Why do I even make these videos?
Instagram.
That's your Two Minute Tuesday.
Thanks so much for watching.
Hit that like button if you like this video.
Smash it if that's something that you're into.
2018 style only a few weeks left
and then we gotta change the phrase, the catch phrase.
Oh, lastly, if you guys use Instagram, mob those comments.
Drop your account below.
Everybody, pick up some new friends,
pick up some new follows, share your accounts,
get to know each other through this page,
through this platform.
Drop your Instagram handle below in the comments
and let's see if we can all get inspired
looking at new work from new artists.
That's it from me.
I will see you on Thursday.
Peace.
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