How to Find Photography Inspirations Without Copying Movies and Social Media

One of the challenges that photographers often face is finding references for their work. This is pretty evident when one is creating images for a commercial shoot or even fashion work. Sometimes, it is for portraits. Either way, for most of this work, one relies on other visual…

No body day

Goldie Boone is a “digital country artist” who looks too good to be real. So I’m betting she’s not. (I wouldn’t have brought this up if she hadn’t appeared in one of my Facebook doomscroll reels.)

Printing tiny photos for paper journals

I'm still writing my journals on paper. Makes it about a decade of notebooks, most of them Field Notes, kept in the archival wooden boxes[1]. Writing by hand helps me remember and process life. Finishing notebooks give me the feeling of closing a chapter on those problems, at le…

Recursive Trucker's Hitch

This Week in the IndieWeb

July 17-24, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, July 22 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, July 22 at 7:00pm Upcoming EventsFrom events.indieweb.org: 🎂 HWC London – Celebrating 10 years…

What Makes These 5 Canon Cameras Special in 2026?

Canon has introduced some wonderful cameras over the years. The company has fantastic DSLRs, compact cameras, and APS-C offerings, depending on your needs. Today, we take a peak at the cameras that are ideal for those willing to slow down.

Flickr Is Deleting Millions of Accounts, Here’s Why

Flickr is one of the most trusted social media platforms today. One of the reasons being that the portal has favored photographers, unlike other social media websites, where the company comes first. As part of their latest announcement, Flickr is making some sweeping changes. He…

Please let me phone my podcasts app

My perfect podcast app would be a long phone call in which I listen to the show and can also talk back to remember things. (Someone build this for me.) It would immeasurably improve my running. Long story short, I added slow runs into the training mix, and had to switch from h…

What Makes These 5 Nikon Cameras Special in 2026?

Nikon cameras have been some wonderful options for people who want a good device with great capabilities. From APS-C to full frame models, Nikon has various options that can help people get the best of their vision. If you are a young photographer looking for a camera that is co…

Cryday

Welcome to New York AeroXplorer: LaGuardia Tower Alerts Pilots to Possible Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat Near Airport. Excerpt: "Controllers told inbound flights to stay alert for individuals on the ground who may have been carrying a rocket launcher." In case you're optimistic…

The Best 3 Sony Cameras with an Inclusive Autofocus 

Sony cameras have been one of the most trusted brands in the market. The company has changed the way we look at photography and all for the better. If you are looking for a camera that will not let you down, here are three options that will help.

Need to Recharge? We Can Help

One of the Phoblographer's Benefits are a discount to Herbs and Kettle Chai Club. And that can majorly help you recharge. In 2025, I started to do things that otherwise would seem crazy for a publisher of a niche photography online magazine to do. For starters, this year, the Ph…

These Four Fujifilm Recipes are Made for People of Color

If you're a Fujifilm photographer and photograph people of color, you need to check these film simulations out for yourself.

Thurbsday

It’s still a bubble In May of 2018, I posted GDPR will pop the adtech bubble. It didn’t. The bubble is now bigger than ever. My mistake was assuming that there was a policy answer to a morally awful business that paid well. In retrospect, it’s a  humbling reminder of how…

New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink...

New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink boats and wear salmon for hats; now they’re ramming fish so hard they explode. “Orcas were observed to hold sunfish in their jaws while a second whale smashed into the target at high speed…”

It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers ....

It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers. “Our world is increasingly moving towards extreme values: Damages from climate change, deaths due to genocide, wealth that knows no bounds. We can’t tackle them if we can’t wrap our heads around [them].”

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the...

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out. “Once everyone was back at school on Tuesday, the high schoolers lawyered up during their lunch hour.”

“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by...

“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.)