Photography blogs in OPML

Back in August I linked to Jim Grey’s list of photography blogs. At the time I subscribed to nearly every single one with an RSS feed. He has since updated the list a bit so I urge you to check it out.

I’ve created an OPML file of my photography blog subscriptions which includes most of Jim’s list and a few other blogs. I plan on adding the updates Jim has made to his list. This should make it really easy to subscribe to them all in one shot*.

Feel free to update the OPML on Github with more URLs and submit the edits.

/* If you’re on the Mac, and don’t currently subscribe to blogs, I suggest NetNewswire.

September 14, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #66: August 18, 2020

Great list this week. See other lists.

Vicariously – See what Twitter looks like for other users.
James Sowerby Mineralogy – Exquisite digital collection of Sowerby’s painstaking illustrations. Great work and website.
Film Photography Blogs You Should Follow – A growing and great list from Jim Grey. I’ll be sharing an OPML file of all of these in the near future. ICYMI
Dorothea Lange at the Oakland Museum of California – A great way to explore Lange’s work in detail.
The Lifeboat Station Project – I’ve been swooning over Jack Lowe’s project ever since listening to him on Episode 31 of the Large Format Photography Podcast. A years long photo project that is just so well done.
2020: an isolation odyssey – Lydia Cambron recreates the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey while in quarantine. Superb work on so many levels.
The Art of Agnes Martin – All sorts of inspiration from her work.
Rembrandt to Richter – This auction is already over with so if you happen to have a cool few million dollars laying around to spend on fine art, you’ll have to go elsewhere.

I wish somehow these lists were exhaustive and complete but they simply aren’t. There are so many great things I stumble across day-to-day and file away to get to. And I get to some of them. And I remember some of them. And these are those items.

August 18, 2020

Marcus Peddle on using film or digital

Marcus Peddle, remarking on making Jim Grey’s aforementioned list of film photography blogs:

I’m honoured, but slightly embarrassed because most of my photography these days is digital. Still, a photo is a photo, right? I hope you won’t be disappointed by the paucity of film photographs if you came to this website by following the link from Jim’s list.

I understand Marcus’ humble acknowledgement here but it is crappy that anyone should defend what they choose to shoot photos with. A photographer should be able to use whatever tool she/he would prefer to use for any given project or at any given moment and they should never have to apologize for it.

His point is more so that he made a list of film photography blogs and isn’t sharing much about film photography lately. But, you can still read between the lines when he says “a photo is a photo, right?”. Right!!

Personally I use a myriad of “cameras”. A incomplete list of cameras that I currently use regularly are a drone, my iPhone, the Canon AE-1 Program, my now 14 year old Canon Digital Rebel XTi DSLR, an ancient Ansco Speedex, paper negatives shoved into just about any contraption I can find, MY BEDROOM, point and shoot cameras, and many many many more.

I hope everyone on that excellent film photography blog list does the same and shares what they make.

I need to share more photos and will soon.

August 5, 2020

A list of film photography blogs by Jim Grey

Jim Grey:

It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! A great joy of film photography is the community of people who enjoy everything about it: the gear, the films, getting out and shooting, and looking at the resulting photographs. Lots of us share our adventures on our blogs.

I am so very happy this list exists. So many great, active blogs by photographers focused on so many different things. I’ve subscribed to nearly every single one that has an RSS feed.

Thanks to Jim for putting this list together.

August 4, 2020