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’m going to list all of the photo blogs I follow. If you don’t see your blog here, I hope you won’t feel put out. Maybe I just don’t know about it. Let me know which blogs I’m missing in the comments!
This year I’m just going to list the blogs alphabetically. When you see ✨ next to a blog, it’s new to this year’s list. When you see ❤ next to a blog, it’s one I look forward to most. When you see 📷 next to a blog, its author or owner is a member of a little kaffeeklatsch I belong to where we talk about photography and photo blogging — and share each others’ posts around the Internet.
Also, this year I’m limiting the list to blogs that have posted recently and post regularly.
- 35 millimetre — Film photographs by Charlotte Davis in the UK.
- ✨ 35mm Chronicle — The fellow who writes this blog never shares his name, but he does some lovely work in black and white.
- ✨ 35mm Film Shootist — Black and whites from Martin Smith’s Leica.
- 📷 35mmc — Hamish Gill and his crew write about cameras and films and photographic skills
- 📷 Alex Luyckx — A dedicated film photographer shares his work. His film reviews are the most useful on the Internet.
- ✨ Alex Yates Photography — Pinholes, Polaroids, and 35mm.
- All My Cameras — Christoph in Germany and his growing collection. In German and in English.
- Analog Cafe — A group blog of photo essays, reviews, and stories.
- ✨ Analogue Wonderland — The blog of Analogue Wonderland, a film store in the UK.
- ✨ Andrew Bartram — Film landscapes of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands in eastern England.
- ✨ Aragon’s Eye — Chris shares photographs and film-camera reviews.
- Attempts at 35mm — Pekka waxes philosophical about cameras and street photography.
- Barnaby Nutt — Barnaby documents his life with his film camera.
- Bernard Prunesquallor — Essays on many topics, illustrated with film photographs.
- ✨ 📷 Bill Smith’s Photography — Bill shoots 35mm and medium format, and shares in a visual diary format.
- Broken Camera . Club — Mostly reviews of mostly obscure gear.
- ❤ 📷 Camera Go Camera — Peggy reviews lots and lots of gear, some of it off-the-wall stuff she bought while living in Japan.
- Camera Legend — Sam collects legendary cameras and writes about using them.
- Canny Cameras — Gear reviews and photographs by Alan D. This site explained why the Lomography 110 film I use sometimes leaves light spots on some images. A tip of the hat for that.
- 📷 Casual Photophile — This site written by James and his crew sets the Internet standard for vintage gear reviews. Excellent writing, excellent images, great cameras. I read every post, from beginning to end.
- coronet66 — Photos from lots of great film gear from this UK blogger.
- Curating Cuteness — Katie shoots film with a small stable of cameras.
- 📷 EMULSIVE — A place for film photographers of all backgrounds to share their knowledge, experience, and thoughts about everything related to film photography.
- Field Photographer — A group blog about gear and adventure with that gear.
- Filling the Time — Karen explores photography and film cameras.
- Film Advance — Gary shares images from his eclectic collection of film cameras.
- Film Based Traveler — Nicole works in a biomedical research lab by day and shoots film in her spare time.
- ✨ Film is Back! — Wayne in New Zealand shares his film and film-camera adventures.
- Film Photography Blog — A straightforwardly named blog from the Film Shooters Collective.
- Film Photography.Blog — Film photographs from northeast England.
- Film Photography Project — You gotta include the blog of the FPP gang.
- ❤ Fogdog Blog — John takes his Nikons and his Pentaxes (and sometimes his Leicas) along the northern California coast.
- For the easily distracted… — Rhianne in the UK shoots film, and lots of it.
- I Still Shoot Film — A group blog about all things film.
- I dream of sumac and milkweed — Personal essays and film photographs.
- Ivan Pilov Photography — Film photographs, mostly from Israel.
- 📷 Japan Camera Hunter — Bellamy lives in Tokyo and finds lovely old cameras for you. And writes about film photography.
- John’s Cameras — If it can make an image, John Margetts will give it a try and share his experience here.
- 📷 Johnny Martyr — Photographing portraits and live music on film.
- 📷 Kosmo Foto — Stephen dispels the myths about film: that it’s too hard and too expensive, and breaks film-photography news.
- Mere Film Photography — Shooting film, printing digitally, thinking and writing about the craft.
- 📷 mike eckman dot com — Long form histories and reviews, from common cameras to wacky stuff you’ve never heard of.
- Mostly Monochrome — A photo-a-day blog with a surprising number of color photos given its title.
- myvintagecamerasblog — Experiments with cameras and film.
- ✨ Natalie Smart Film Photography — A film photographer in Brighton, UK, who shoots 35mm, 120, and instant.
- North East Liberties — Michael shares scenes from the region of Northern Ireland his blog is named after. His specialty is printing.
- Olli Thomson Photography — A career ex-pat who lives all over the world, shooting his film gear and sharing his work.
- ✨ Photo A Day — Daily film photos shared more or less weekly.
- Photo-Analogue – Nicholas shares photos from his 20 film cameras and discusses tech and technique.
- Photo Jottings — A lot of film camera tests and reviews.
- ❤ Photography and Vintage Cameras – Mike does great work with his old cameras, especially in black and white. He can make an old folder or box camera really sing.
- ✨ 📷 Photo Thinking — Theo Panagopolous writes a friendly and informative blog on photography, photo processes and the wonderful and varied cameras used to create pictures.
- Physical Grain — Personal essays, illustrated with film photographs by the authors.
- Random Camera Blog – Mark shoots frequently with his old cameras and shares the results here.
- reCap — Gear and photographs. A German blog in English.
- ✨ Richard Haw’s Classic Nikon Repair and Review — What it says on the tin. Extremely informative.
- Seeing Wide — Photo walks and street photography, on film.
- ❤ short stories — Gerald, amateur photographer, professional misfit.
- shot on film — New images from old cameras.
- Slow Photography — Jordi shares his experiences with gear and technique.
- ✨ Steel City Snapper — Medium format and 35mm photography from Sheffield, UK.
- the6millionpman — Lots of medium format.
- TAZM Pictures — Tom films everything, and often on actual film.
- The Resurrected Camera — Joe proves that film photography doesn’t have to be expensive.
- ✨ The Unrecovering Photography Addict — Sam loves everything about photography, from the gear to the process to the result.
- The Vintage Lens — Photos with cameras at least 50 years old.
- Utah Film Photography — Shaun Nelson with vintage gear photographs and reviews.
- View from the Carrot Room — SilverFox moved from the UK to the US and records his life on film.
- Why Use Film Cameras? — Frank in Luxembourg shoots film, proving every day that it’s not as expensive as you think.
- Yashica Pentamatic Fanatic Photos of gear from his extensive collection, mostly Yashicas.
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