My quick guide to photography on the social web

I admit it. I am a photography nerd.

I fell in love with photography in 2001 when I got my first digital camera. A few years later I started photo-blogging and then joined Flickr when it first launched.

Since then I have been amazed by how photography has grown online and is now a hobbyists dream world. But its hard to keep up with what's going on.

So here is my quick guide to photography on the social web.

By no means an expert comprehensive survey, but a personal glimpse into the pockets of photographic nerdom on the web.

Enjoy.

 

Photoblogs

A photoblog is a place where a photoblogger posts an image everyday(ish) on any topic from their life. There is rarely any other commentary or text other than just a personal image posted. It all started with L Brandon Stone who spawned photoblogs.org in the 2002 and helped inspire people likeChromasia to leave their job and become a full time photographer. Some photoblogs are the homes of amateurs and others are the sideline of pros who have got hooked on publishing their daily trivial fix. Here are a few photoblogs I like: 

Little Time Machine - est in 2004 its one of the original photoblogs.  

The Sartorialist - the original style street photographer. Consistent and high quality.

Chromasia - this guy took photo-blogging to a whole another level. An inspiration to many.

Smudo - one of my favourite photobloggers, always a treat to visit. 

Observations - one of the first photobloggers and one of the best.  

Mute - consistently good work published. An example of how photoblogging has no grand aims.

Jimbus - beautiful observations on the ephemera of life.