Shutterbug on Photoblogs

Shutterbug, one of the most popular magazines for photographers, has just published a piece entitled "How Photographers Are Making The Internet Work For Them". Covering some of the basics of photoblogging, and providing links to a few prominent sites, it's a good introduction to this important community:

Photographic enthusiasts tend to be rather individualistic—it is just you and your camera and it’s definitely not a team sport. However, once a photograph is made, what do you do with it? Rather than just filing pictures in shoe boxes once they are created, it is natural for most to want to share their view and perspective of the world, that dimension of reality and life they find interesting. A photoblog serves photo enthusiasts ideally to satisfy a need to “use” what they produce with a camera, in a free, individual, unstructured space that is open to all comers.

Some of the sites covered include Jinky Art and A Walk Through Durham Township, both powered by Movable Type, and Always Curious, which is powered by Movable Type. There's also a nice mention of Photoblogs.org, the great photoblogger community resource, which runs its news blog on TypePad.

If you'd like to start a photo blog yourself, you might want to check out our notes on Working with photos in Movable Type, Rannie Turningan's tips on photoblog thumbnails, or TypePad's mixed media templates, which let you combine photos and text, in addition to TypePad's built-in support for photo albums.