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50 Wonderful, Inspiring Photoblogs
A photoblog is a very specific type of blog. Its focus is photography, and there are typically few words beyond a caption and comments. Photoblogs are easy to set up and maintain, and they make great photo galleries for photographers who are put off by the complexity of HTML coding or installing a CMS such as WordPress.
It’s because of this simplicity, not to mention the development of free yet sophisticated tools like Pixelpost, that photoblogging has exploded in popularity over the last few years. Photoblogs.org, for example, lists over 32,000 photoblogs! That’s a lot of photos, and a lot of photographers vying for your attention.
Dedicated as ever to making your life easier, we’ve handpicked over 50 brilliant photoblogs for your viewing pleasure. There’s a little of everything, including photojournalism and nature, landscape, street, portrait and travel photography. We’ve also listed some of the best photoblogging solutions, articles and other resources at the bottom of the post.
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50 Wonderful Photoblogs
The Big Picture
The Big Picture from the Boston Globe; amazing photojournalism.
Vernon Trent
The photoblog of fine-art photographer Vernon Trent.
Chromasia
David J. Nightingale’s photoblog with rich, lively colors, unusual perspectives and attention to details.
Laurens Kuipers – Daily Photoblog
Architectural and landscape photography by Laurens Kuipers.
Robert Kruh Photoblog
The photoblog of Robert Kruh.
Jeezo Peezo Photoblog
Some beautiful portraits and black-and-white photos.
Daily Dose of Imagery
The photoblog of Sam Talayeh.
Fine-Art Photoblog
Nine talented photographers from six countries.
Stuck In Customs
The fabulous HDR photography of Trey Ratcliff.
Exposed Planet
Photos from around the world by adventurer and entrepreneur Harry Kikstra.
Andreas Kaiser Photography
Stunning black-and-white photos from German photographer Andreas Kaiser.
Eyes Wide Opened
Dark and eerie fantasy photography.
Tree Swing
Interesting set of photos from self-taught photographer Sean McKendall.
:photoschau
The photoblog of a German photographer Frank Boenigk.
Cheneel
Photos from a Hong Kong-based photographer.
The Frame
Photojournalism blog from the Sacramento Bee.
Pixel Candy
The nature photography of Thomas Bonin.
Here and Now
Amazing landscape and nature photography.
Really Japan
Photos from Japan.
Accessible
Beautiful landscapes from Germany.
From 10 to 300 mm
More amazing landscapes.
Photo Journal
Photojournalism from the Wall Street Journal.
Filling the Frame
Street and documentary photography from Argentina.
Dawn Le Blanc
Beautiful photos of flowers in black-and-white and color.
Dutch PhotoDay
Two photographers from the Netherlands.
Daily Walks
Photos from northern California, taken on walks.
Radio Uruguay
Lots of gritty black-and-white photos.
Photo of the Day
PDN’s Photo of the Day.
These Fleeting Moments
Beautiful landscape photography by Jason Ertel.
Moodaholic
Inspirational photography by Kenny Wang.
Absolutely Nothing
Landscape photos from the north of England.
A Walk Through Durham Township
The landscapes and people of Durham Township, Pennsylvania.
Any Day
The personal work of a Swedish photojournalist.
Sarajevo 1992-1996
Photos taken during the 1395-day-long siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996.
Apocalyps
Winner of best Canadian Photoblog in the 2007 Photobloggies awards.
Whateverland
A collection of photos by Archie Flor Cruz.
Wink
A wonderful photoblog from a photographer based on Canada’s Vancouver Island. Some beautiful photos of kids.
Terrorkitten
Photos from the UK and the beautiful Greek island of Crete.
Japan Window
Andy Gray’s photos from Japan.
Framed and Shot
The joint photoblog of a Norwegian couple living in Houston, Texas.
Lumilux
An impressive photoblog from an 18-year-old student in New York City.
This is a Photo Blog
A group of photographers who give each other assignments — and have fun doing it!
Pixelgrain
The photography of John Ryan Brubaker.
Middle Kingdom
The “Middle Kingdom” through the eyes of a photographer living and working in China.
Istoica
Innovative portraiture and fashion photography.
Milou Vision
Beautiful black-and-white landscape photography.
Dailysnap
Photography from Jessyel Ty Gonzalez’s life.
My Glass Eye
Owen Billcliffe’s visual diary.
Electrolite
The online scrapbook of advertising and commercial photographer Shannon Richardson.
1965
Evocative black-and-white photography from Japan.
Ojo Rojo
A photoblog from Peru. Beautiful photos.
Last Click
Marta
Wonderful photos, especially of children, from Spanish photographer Marta.
Sources and Resources
Create your own photoblog with the following solutions:
- Pixelpost
- PixyBlog
- Shutterchance
- Picoplog
- Aminus3
- WordPress – Photoblogs and Galleries
Instructions for turning WordPress into a photoblog.
Photoblogging Articles
- Introduction to Photoblogs and Moblogs
Handy summary, with lots of links to photoblogging resources. - Shutterbug: How Photographers are Making the Internet Work for Them
Great introduction to the concept of photoblogging. - Digital Photo School: Why You Should Consider Setting up a Photoblog
10 excellent reasons to start a photoblog. - Blog on Photoblogs
A blog about… photoblogging.
Photoblog Directories
The following websites have lists of photoblogs — thousands and thousands of photoblogs to enjoy. You can also promote your own photoblog by adding it to the lists.
- Cool Photoblogs
- VFXY
- Photoposts
- Photoblogs.org
- Photoblog Directory
- The Photobloggies
- The 10 Most-Stunning Photo Blogs
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Andrew Gibson is a photographer and writer. He runs Magical Places Fine Art, an online photography magazine and another great photography resource.
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February 14th, 2009 7:23 amawensome. thanks
- 3February 14th, 2009 7:39 am
Cool! thx for this.
- 4February 14th, 2009 8:43 am
Worth a digg=)thanks
- 5February 14th, 2009 9:40 am
Well, as for me 50 is a little to much, I’m to lazy to watch all these blogs :P
- 6February 14th, 2009 9:45 am
Photo is always a good resource to get inspriation
- 7February 14th, 2009 10:05 am
A great thing to see a few photoblogs I really love in a feature like this – beautiful article!
- 8February 14th, 2009 12:20 pm
Great Article, very inspiring…
Oh, and before I forget: concerning the “Photoblogging Articles” – the link to
“Digital Photo School: Why You Should Consider Setting up a Photoblog” is incorrect… here`s the right one.http://www.digital-photography-school.com/power-why-you-should-consider-setting-up-a-photoblog/
Greetings
Boris - 9February 14th, 2009 12:29 pm
I like the photographs by Jason Ertel the best. Very peaceful. Thank you.
- 10February 14th, 2009 1:04 pm
Nice list, a lot of great photographers.
If you guys are interested in fashion photography, check out Flickrista.com too!
- 11February 14th, 2009 1:53 pm
Great Article. Wonderful collection
of pictures and impressions. - 12February 14th, 2009 2:14 pm
Check out arturian.wordpress.com, great Belgian photoblogger.
- 13February 14th, 2009 3:01 pm
Great collection!
Some of them already landed in my Bookmarks :) - 14February 14th, 2009 8:28 pm
Wow, what an awesome collection. I’ll be sure to delve into some of these sites. I built a decent photoblog for my father’s black and white collections using Wordpress and a cool Flickr plugin. You can check it out at http://www.ducktrapphoto.com.
Thanks for this!
- 15February 14th, 2009 8:56 pm
Wow! What a great compilation. Thanks for doing the research to find these talented photographers.
- 16February 15th, 2009 12:44 am
Daily Dose of Imagery is made by Sam Javanrough. Talayeh is his wife’s name ;)
- 17February 15th, 2009 2:21 am
Wonderful thanks
- 18February 15th, 2009 4:31 am
Thank you for choosing my site for your article! It’s a great surprise! Thanks! :) – Cyril
- 19February 15th, 2009 7:06 am
I like the Big Picture.
- 20February 15th, 2009 8:17 am
Thanks for the notice on my blog moodaholic!
But my name is Kenny Weng and not as faulty stated ;)
- 21February 15th, 2009 8:20 am
Bad Link:
Digital Photo School: Why You Should Consider Setting up a Photoblog
10 excellent reasons to start a photoblog. - 22February 15th, 2009 8:21 am
Hi, great post…
It’s made me super motivated to bust out more of my own photography and get more creative… instead of always taking the photo marketing road which I do at my PhotoMarketeers.com blog.
Some nice, richly presented photo blogs here…
Thanks :)
- 23February 15th, 2009 12:50 pm
What a great post!
I wish that I had the time right now to go through each and everyone of your list above. I will defiantly be back.
Thank you for putting all of these together and sharing.
Photography is one of my loves but I haven’t done much lately. - 24February 15th, 2009 2:43 pm
Thank you for mentioning our photoblog http://www.dutchphotoday.nl , we feel very honoured.
- 25February 15th, 2009 2:46 pm
Thank you for mentioning our photoblog Dutch PhotoDay, we feel very honoured.
- 26February 15th, 2009 3:31 pm
Yes I look at a lot of these regularly and some I had not heard of before so thanks for this excellent list.
A new one I found recently is Dynamic Range. Looks like it should be good with a combination of the owners images and articles about other photographers and photographic techniques.
- 27February 15th, 2009 5:56 pm
Thanks for mentioning ExposedPlanet as well as listing some great others, many of which I had not seen before. It is always good to get inspiration from creative people :)
- 28February 15th, 2009 6:11 pm
Thank you for the mention in this post; I’m honored to be included in the listing of this talented bunch!
- 29February 15th, 2009 7:41 pm
Cool! Really Japan is one of the most original ones I have seen. Brilliant.
- 30February 16th, 2009 3:02 am
I wish to thank you for mentioning my photoblog. I’m deeply humbled.
- 31February 16th, 2009 3:14 am
This couldn’t have come at a better time for me as I am about to design a photblog for a client. Was thinking of using Wordpress but will definitely check out pixelblog. Cheers!
- 32February 16th, 2009 6:51 am
I do try to turn to photography for inspiration, so I find this post exciting. Trouble is which blogs to visit regularly, with 50 great ones like these!
- 33February 16th, 2009 10:27 am
Thanks so much for including me. I’m in great company, that’s for sure.
- 34February 16th, 2009 10:43 am
What? No riotclitshave? I’m stunned. (Full disclosure for the easily shocked: riotclitshave is a pun of right click save and not a descriptor of the blog’s primary content, although it does periodically contain nudity of various types.)
It’s my absolute all time favorite photo/image (mostly photo) blog, and Bean, the proprietor, is an amazingly wonderful person.
http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com
(I hope this doesn’t count as “link dropping” – you guys should probably define that a little better.) - 35February 16th, 2009 1:17 pm
Thanks for the constant inspiration! – WeLC
- 36February 16th, 2009 4:33 pm
Thanks a lot for including my blog ;)
- 37February 16th, 2009 5:00 pm
thank you for mentioning my fotoblog(1965 monochrome). i’m very honoured.
- 38February 17th, 2009 5:35 am
This is a great list of wonderful blogs but I really need to suggest one that should have been added for not only the content but the design.
For those that love a retro feel, I think it will be enjoyed.
- 39February 17th, 2009 6:24 am
Thank you for including my blog in this beautiful list!!
- 40February 17th, 2009 9:46 am
Really nice selection thanks! Too many to choose from.
- 41February 17th, 2009 11:50 am
Kickass post, thank you! I like thisisaphotoblog the best.
- 42February 17th, 2009 2:04 pm
You did a wonderful job collecting all of these amazing blogs together – these are all truly outstanding photoblogs.
But the intent is so large, that no matter how long you make the list, some will surely be left out. Some of my favorites:
Jen Gray
Dancing Mermaid
11 PhotographsThank you.
- 43February 17th, 2009 2:42 pm
Nice.
Both myself and a friend each have a daily photo site as well, check them out if you’re interested.
http://www.deathoffield.com
http://www.yplust.com/photo/Cheers,
- 44February 17th, 2009 3:49 pm
Awesome!!
XD
- 45February 17th, 2009 10:18 pm
Great article. Thanks. Now – can we get rid of that annoying and ugly Microsoft ad at the top of all the pages please?
- 46February 18th, 2009 8:22 am
Thanks for adding my site along with such great sites.
Merci, merci, merci :-)VT
- 47February 19th, 2009 1:09 pm
Daily Dose of Imagery is by Sam Javanrouh.
you got his last name wrong! :P
- 48February 21st, 2009 2:56 pm
Wow, too many inspiring photoblogs here. I’m bookmarking most of them for inspirations on my further photography projects. Very good list here and nice article.
Check this out also, a very colorful photoblog of a friend –> My Sari-Sari Store
- 49February 21st, 2009 5:52 pm
Great list of websites… a lot of landscape, nature, cityscape and photojournalism style photography. But, there’s a definite lack of fashion, studio, commercial and editorial style photography. Is it that studio/fashion/commercial/fine-arts photographers just don’t have blogs?
- 50February 22nd, 2009 3:07 pm
Well impressed with these sites. The chromasia is a wonderful site that I never realised was so close to me.
Stuck in customs is well impressive. - 51March 7th, 2009 6:27 am
Thanks for mentioning my glass eye! Very honoured to be included amongst all those others. :)
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- 53March 14th, 2009 12:58 am
Thanks for adding my site. Cheers.
- 54March 18th, 2009 2:17 am
Interesting sites. Quality is there. For blogs related to Asia, I would also suggest users to visit:
http://taipeiterminus.hautetfort.com/
http://www.bangkokphotoblog.com/ - 55March 20th, 2009 7:09 am
Hey nice! My photoblog is in the list too :) LaurensKuipers.nl
Daily Dose of Imagery is a great photoblog, but there are many others :)
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- 57April 14th, 2009 10:58 am
hey, thx for listing me! didn’t even know that I’m that “popular” :-)
- 58May 14th, 2009 10:50 pm
This is a amazing blog too! the story and photos on Mike Brodies will blow you away
http://heyyousaycheese.blogspot.com/2009/05/mike-brodie-aka-polaroid-kid.html
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- 61June 9th, 2009 8:01 pm
you guys should check out this guy, hes a newcomer but is working on legit stuff
collinaveryphotography.blogspot.com
@collinavery on twitter - 62
- 63July 30th, 2009 12:56 am
Like everyone else here I inspire to be a recognised photographer via my photoblog and hoping someday people will actively list my photoblog among other greats like the above. Any of these photographers use a point and shoot camera for their photoblogs?
if you’re interested: http://www.bimaltailor.co.uk/blog/
Great post once again Smashing Mag… thanks Andrew Gibson.
- 64November 2nd, 2009 12:23 pm
I suggest Florin Constantinescu blog, romanian photographer. http://www.crosslightblog.ro
- 65January 21st, 2010 2:55 am
hello..
I want say thank you for these links..
..and share with you..with my....
BR,
Janis
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Very Nice and inspirational collection Gibson…. Although There are few which you missed… Still, it’s a good appreciable list.
I’m a great admirer of “Chromasia, Flak, DDOI, Joe’s NYC” as i’m one of the regular visitors there.
But i like “Chromasia” the most. David Nightingale of Blackpool, England is really a great photographer with his good taste in inspirational post-production skills. Also his work is truly nice and great unlike those Photoshopped freak shows.
Unfortunately, for some it is impossible to find the RSS feed, as many of us would like to subscribe.
DKumar M.