I’m completely obsessed with Instagram.
(For those of you who don’t know, Instagram is a phone app that allows for pretty picture sharing between friends and pretty picture stalking between strangers).
I’m obsessed with scrolling through Instagram photos because of the beauty and circumstance. ย Instagram will tell me that my friend Tracy is making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. ย Instagram tells me that this British dude I met in a Hollywood bar two years ago wears friendship bracelets and plays a white guitar. ย Instagram tells me that your sunset view is pretty and your new baby is pretty cute. ย I can see your shoes. ย You share your morning coffee. ย And I can appreciate your love of plants, and farm life, and warm soup. ย It’s all so weird and random and tailored and intimate.
Here’s who I love to see pop up in my Instagram feed:
Bonnie Tsangย is a Los Angeles based photographer. ย She has a most charming daughter… and Bonnie eats oh so often. ย Her photos feel like very pretty real life.
Ben Rhauย is a man in San Francisco with a great eye. ย I appreciate his perspective.
Ashley Rodriguezย is the voice behind Not Without Salt. ย She makes really beautiful food and says really beautiful words.
Kate Missย is a graphic designer/jewelry designer/taker of pretty pictures. I like the way she appreciates things I might otherwise skim over. ย Kate Miss blogs at For Me For You.
CestTresBonย is crazy clean Japanese food photography. ย Get into it!
Benjamin Hole. ย I don’t know you, Benjamin Hole… but I really love the things you see. ย Farm life from The Isle of Purdeck, England. ย Whaaaat!?
Top Notch Faceting. ย What would it be like if a gem cutter had an Instagram account. ย Oh… THIS!
Folk Fibers. ย Naturally dyed, handmade quilts from Texas. ย It’s all so totally random and beautiful. ย I LOVE IT!
Makino0a. ย Plants and the occasional hand. ย You can pretend like you’re not wholly obsessed with these weird plants. ย I happen to be completely enamored.
Paul Octaviousย is a photographer living in Chicago. ย He takes pictures of things my brain doesn’t even think of.
Tucker Taylorย is the culinary gardener at The French Laundry in Yountville, California. ย He grows beautiful (I mean… BEAUTIFUL) food, and occasionally places that food in his hand to photograph. ย Yea… man-hand amazing.
SpoonForkBaconย is the Instagram to one of my very favorite food blogs of the same name. The photography is bright and playful. ย I have my eyes on this Black Pepper Parmesan Beer Bread.
Lani Trockย has the most soft and delicate way of portraying the world around her. Lani’s photos make my heart feel right.
ย Shutterbean. ย Shoes, food, and a four year old from the life of Tracy Benjamin.
I love the peek inside the lives of others. ย It’s like momentarily being transported to a different perspective and circumstance. ย Here’s a look inside the circumstance ofย Joy the Baker. ย Gummy bears, cookies, cupcakes, and a random picture of my father when he was four… typical.
xo joy
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Thanks for inspiring us all with all these things that are inspiring you.
Thanks for sharing all the wonderful blogs. Creativity isn’t it a wondrful thing. Paulette
I started blogging (largely because I was inspired by awesome bloggers like you) and I linked you in my about page! (I hope that’s ok) :)
See! :)
https://ejsediblejoys.wordpress.com/about/
So many great ideas for people to follow. Instagram is a great reminder to notice beautiful moments. Love it!
We love peeking inside your life Joy, so it’s heart warming to know that you enjoy the same indulgences. I don’t have an instagram account, but I do try to take pretty pictures of the world around me as a way of capturing moments and post the collage on my blog. Maybe I’ll catch up with technology one day and get on instagram.
I have to agree that Instagram is awfully addicting. I love the pictures you shared!
i would love instagram 10x more than i already do if i were seeing those beautiful photos daily! thank you for sharing!
Thanks for all the great suggestions! :) There are some very talented photographers out there.
oh my gosh, i’m obsessed, too!! thanks for giving us new people to follow! :)
So many good folks to follow. Here’s one – a good friend of mine with photography in her blood and a photogenic cat – @ktarnoff.
This is awesome! I don’t have instagram, I don’t have a smartphone, okay, I’m still in the last century, but I loved this post and taking a peek at the images of other people’s worlds! Thank you. :)
I just signed up for Instagram earlier this week, but I haven’t posted a photo yet. It’s weird having another place to look for things…
I too am completely addicted to instagram. This is why I love you Joy! You keep reminding me that it’s ok to love the nonsense that I love. Because its ahhmazing!
Thanks Joy for the lovely introduction to all these people. Now you’ve got me hooked as well!
Hello from England! The isle of purdeck is a little peninsula on the south coast which juts out into the English Channel. If you like his pictures, I can recommend someone else to you – username dandesbo – he’s a photographer living in my home town which is right on the English Channel, he takes amazing photos of the sea and coast, incredible… take a look.
Thanks for the recommendations :)
this is amazing! thanks, Nic!
You’re welcome :)
Gasp! There are just so many amazing people to follow on Instagram – I’m already following so many frequent Instagramers and my feed is so flooded as it is. Now you’ve compelled me to follow just a few more. *sad face*
Joy, please tell me you’ve seen the Instagram spoof video! It’s so good- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-dD-QKYN4 (if the link doesn’t work- search “Look at this Instagram (Nickelback parody). So silly.
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