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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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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…
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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.
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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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…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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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…”
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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].”
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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.”
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“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.)
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If Nikon Moves Lens Production to Vietnam, Will Quality Go Down?
Nikon has been creating some fantastic lenses around the world. The company has made models such as the 50mm f1.2, the 800mm f6.3 VR S, or the 70-200mm f2.8 VR S, which are popular amongst photographers. It now appears that Nikon has some plans for its manufacturing units. Here'…
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“In extreme cases, it can create a phantom...
“In extreme cases, it can create a phantom homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters.” On the good and bad types of nostalgia.
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Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and...
Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and the misogyny of classical literature & the contemporary world. “Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”
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What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli?
Following a prompt from Joanna at Cup of Jo… The local deli or sandwich shop names a sandwich after you. What would be on it? Perhaps another way of asking the question: what’s your favorite sandwich that’s a little bit unusual? I love a classic BLT, banh mi, or jambon b…
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Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part...
Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part because Medicare pays only a fraction of the actual cost of an ambulance ride and the uninsured often don’t pay at all, so the privately insured get bills of $13,000 for a $2600 ride.
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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night...
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies. “Our main failure isn’t a technical one. It’s that we have yet to revise our thinking about lighting at night. We use LED technology just as we did the old sources of light.”
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Does Any Social Media Platform Actually Protect Your Photos?
In recent years, social media have become one of the ways to endorse your photography. Photographers from different walks of life have relied on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, X, Flickr or even TikTok to promote their photos and to be easily recognized by potential clients.…
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A Matter of Form (1984)
In addition to leading the animation studio at the National Film Board of Canada, René Jodoin made several animated films that explored geometric forms and motion, including the one above, A Matter of Form from 1984. Set to the rousing notes of Schubert’s Military March,…
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An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,...
An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers, presented as they were originally serialized in newspapers, with on eye on good typography and readability.
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“ This map shows the predicted density of...
“This map shows the predicted density of underground networks created by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. These networks form one of Earth’s circulatory systems, moving massive amounts of carbon, nutrients, and water across plant communities.”
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Our Favorite Nikon Lens for Bird Photography
Nikon has some wonderful lenses in its portfolio. The company has the 18-300mm, the 70-200mm f2.8E, and the 200-500mm f5.6 are some options that one can rely on. For bird photographers, there are some options one can choose from, and this is perhaps the best option out there.
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The Hasselblad X2D II 100C Got a Major Upgrade, Sort Of
Recently, Capture One and Hasselblad www.thephoblographer.com/2026/07/02/hasselblad-raw-support-capture-one/ compatibility for their cameras and the software to be able to work together. To that end, we decided to do updates to our reviews. We previously updated another Hasselbl…
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Our Presets Give the Magic That You’re Looking For
Every now and again I look at what our presets due to the images I shoot, and I'm always in awe. On the staff, we tend to rotate through a variety of presets. If you use Lightroom or Capture One, you'll want to see what our presets can do for you. Not only are they affordable, b…
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Why Tamron is a Far More Powerful Company Than You Think
For the past few years, I've been a convert to the L-mount alliance. As a stills-photographer who cares absolutely nothing about video, they've been giving me a lot of what I crave. Those things include better autofocus, live composite, LUT adhesion, multiple exposure RAW, build…
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Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The...
Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The Clapper became a viral sensation. When I was a kid, we didn’t have a Clapper, no one I knew had one, and I couldn’t understand why every single household didn’t have one of these magical devices.
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Frozen Polygon Waves
Well, this is just absolutely lovely: photographer and artist Jan Erik Waider shot these videos of cracked-but-unbroken Baltic Sea ice undulating with the gentle motion of the sea. Mesmerizing…I could watch these for hours. Tags: Jan Erik Waider · mesmerizin…
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