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Request for some Photo Blogs

I love reading RSS feeds. But sometimes words get tiring. Today is one of those days.

Luckily, I have a folder with a few very nice photo blogs that I fall into when I’m in such a phase.

I’ve got the following blogs on there –

@muan’s photos – This has got to be one of my favorite photo blogs. The aesthetic is decidedly Instagrammy-personal. It’s a very direct peek into what Mu-An Chiou, a software engineer living in Taiwan, sees around her. She posts her pics as stories using the Open-Stories format and has an added layer of what is called the Open Heart protocol. It lets me hit the little heart button from within the RSS feed. That’s so cool! Of course, if you’re on her site, you can hit the little heart icon on her pics there. I love this setup much more than the horrible implementation by WordPress, so I hope someone takes the time to port this over so I can use it one day.

Manuel Moreale Instagram Style RSS Feed – Manuel is a software dev in Italy. I love that he calls his photo RSS feed “Instagram style”. I don’t know if he posts the same to Instagram, but it’s interesting to see how that social network has influenced the way we think about photography. I loved the recent trip Manuel made to Umbria. He posted a link to an iCloud album and it’s gorgeous! In his own words (via email to me) – “But that’s Italy for you. There’s just too much to see.”

There are a few others in the list who are MIA – Don’t Take Pictures, Licht Years. Would be cool if these blogs get revived at some point.

Through Mu-An, I recently discovered the Bring Back Blog directory and I’m slowly searching for and adding feeds that include photography (and some that don’t) to my feed reader.

But I’d love to hear from you, dear reader – any blogs you’d recommend that I follow? I hold dearest personal, “day in the life” photography. But I also love landscape photography that showcases the great outdoors and adventures of hiking and camping.

BTW, one of the things I miss the most is a short-lived project called bwrss by Giles Turnbull, which was black and white photography, delivered exclusively through the RSS feed and not visible anywhere else on the Internet. Giles, if you’re reading this, maybe bring it back? kthxbye.

I was once described as a philosopher programmer. I think I'd like to describe myself as a lifelong student.

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  1. I don’t know much about photography, but RSS Feeds I love.

    There is a fediverse equivalent to Instagram called Pixelfed.
    And since it is the fediverse, every Account has an RSS Feed.
    So it is really as close to a photoblog as it gets.

    Here is some random example: https://pixelfed.social/Laszlo

    You could look at some of the known Servers here: https://pixelfed.org/servers
    And then dig around until you find a profile with photos you like.

    Other then that, here is a blog of a guy at the south pole who writes interesting stuff. Each blogpost features many photos that you wouldn’t get to see otherwise (I guess. I don’t know actually. But it is a sensible guess, I guess): https://brr.fyi/posts/last-flight-out

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  3. one of the things I miss the most
    is a short-lived project called bwrss by Giles Turnbull
    which was black and white photography,
    delivered exclusively through the RSS feed
    and not visible anywhere else on the Internet.

    Yeah, both the feed and the final on-web gallery are also completely broken now. I have written him about this, and I haven’t gotten any reply yet.

    maybe bring it back?

    Actually, in June 2023, I have taken the matter into my own hands, and started my own project based on the same photoblog-in-a-feed delivery mechanism, but long-running with no definite finish line. That project: “Basked in Sodium Glow”, is still ongoing today…

    https://xwindows.in.th/sodiumglow/

    Atom feed instead of RSS, hand-coded instead of application-generated, sodium streetlight photography rather than black-and-white genre, and posting whenever (ranging from twice a week to once a fortnight) instead of daily; but I think you might enjoy this one as well; especially if you’re using feed reader program rather than 3rd-party feed reader service.

    Reply to Nutchanon

    • wow, thank you for writing to me! I have subscribed to your feed and love the photos! I wish there was a way for me to tell you which ones I loved, like Muan has that OpenHeart protocol. For now, just know that “Press Play to Start” was soooo cool!

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