Thinking about how l started taking photos...

Hi guys,
I'm feeling nostalgic so I decided to post this. I've just been thinking back to the things that originally got me into taking photographs. It sort of started as a way for me to create reference pictures for paintings; I could never just put an idea from my mind onto the surface without the middle man. But it seemed so cheap to look at images that weren't my own. Like for this painting, I cooked up the idea and then just shot reference photos of myself, the guitar, and the hand. When I think about it now, painting in that manner is almost like manual photoshop. I had all of the separate images that I wanted to make a unified piece and I layered them together. And an oil painting, like a photograph, can never seem to be quite finished, optimized enough. I just really am fascinated with the way different genres and art can link up. It's great to flirt with them all.
Cheers,
Chloe