Here is the first in what I expect will be a long line of reviews of photography blogs and web sites. After each review, I will add them to the blogroll at the right. Unless, that is, I find nothing useful or redeeming about them in which case I’ll just omit them.

As you would expect there are thousands upon thousands of such sites and I will never even attempt to get to them all. I have a life, you know. Besides, making photographs myself is a lot more interesting and fun than talking about them or talking about photographs of others. And, as I noted yesterday, there is always a new DAM from Adobe that has to be learned and 16 new ways of converting color digital captures into black and white and 50 different ways to leave your lover. So much to do, so little time.

In fact, because time is limited I’ll start with one of the best blogs about photography of the nude. Michael Barnes saves all the rest of us immense amounts of time and labor by winnowing out some of the best nude photography and putting it up on his web blog Art Nudes which you will find here. Like me, I am certain that you will not care for many of the photographs you see there but Barnes posts the best of what he finds and a lot of it is quite good. For a quick survey of what is currently being shot his blog is the best place to start. Barnes himself is quite good and clicking on the link for his website is worth the time. He is very good with studio lighting as you can see from this photograph.
If you want more surveys, you’ll find them on the left side of his blog under “Photo and Fine Art sites.” Some of those are of uneven quality but then a lot of fine art nude photography is of uneven quality.

A warning about the blog. A cretin or a group of cretins objected to the content so now, before you actually get to Art Nudes you have to get past the Google warning sign. You do that by clicking on the orange box. Don’t worry, if you are looking for Fine Art nudes, that is what you will find on the other side of the orange box. Barnes does not post pornography.