Film photography blogs you should follow - Down the Road

It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! 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.

Bathroom mirror selfie A portrait of the blogger

This list has shrunk a little since last year, by five, to 101 entries. Yet 16 blogs are new to the list this year, meaning that 21 blogs from last year’s list stopped updating. This list has done nothing but grow each year since I first created it — could the pandemic have cooled off people’s blogging?

Not that long ago, most of the blogs on this list were about vintage film gear. But now, a growing number are about making photographs, and it happens that they are on film. I like this shift toward writing about film photography and not just gear. I think this shows that film photography has become far more alive and well than any of us could have imagined just ten years ago!

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!

If you do see your blog here but think my description misses the mark, go to my About page and send me a message on the contact form. Tell me in up to 25 words what you’d like me to say about your blog. I may edit it but I’ll use it to update this list.

You’ll see little emoji next to some blogs:

✨ is a blog that’s new to this year’s list.
❤ is one of the blogs I look forward to most.
📷 is a blog that’s part of a little kaffeeklatsch I belong to where we talk about photography and photo blogging.

Also, I list only blogs that have posted recently and post regularly, and have an RSS feed so I can aggregate them into my reader.

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