
When I posted A Sampling of Niche Blogs last month, people responded positively and said they liked finding new blogs on very specific subjects. Well, there is no lack of variety on the internet, so here are some more niche blogs you might enjoy that feature found photographs.

We love our homes, and we love to look at and sometimes laugh at other people’s homes. Lovely Listing (pictured) has photos of odd finds in real estate listings. Ugly House Photos not only specializes in ugly house pictures, but they are limited to the Phoenix area. On the other hand, making your home into something special is quite popular. Retro Renovation will help you restore your home to fit right into the past. Save the Pink Bathrooms! is an even more focused offshoot.

In the home category, but deserving of its own photo here is There, I Fixed It. This blog documents those occasions where people use their own wits (or lack of) and whatever is lying around instead of getting professional help with their homes, vehicles, and other possessions.

As people create things and show them off on the internet, they open themselves up for criticism and sometimes downright ridicule, because not everything is a work of art. Crappy Taxidermy and WTF Taxidermy (pictured) both collect examples of poor workmanship, bad planning, or just plain bad taste in the field of wildlife preservation. Regretsy is all about handcrafted items sold in Etsy stores, at least the ones that can be made fun of. The blog Ugliest Tattoos (“The Gallery of Regrets”) has no shortage of material. Poorly chosen or rendered tattoos are doubly funny when you consider how long they will last. Some tattoos are NSFW.

Found photos of people are a rich source of content. Be careful what you upload, as your picture may eventually turn up on Hot Chicks with Douchebags. A trend in Facebook and MySpace photos led to the blog Stop Making That Duckface! (pictured). People Talking on Bananas has more user-generated than found photos, but pictures of someone talking on banana is a pretty darn specific subject!

Pale is the New Tan is a blog dedicated to fake tans. It’s not just pictures; you get information and opinions, too. The current hottest blog featuring found photos of people is Awkward Family Photos (pictured). Then there’s My Parents Were Awesome, a user-generated picture blog that is an antidote to blogs that make fun of people.

Several photo blogs focus on pictures in which someone steps in and ruins the shot, which is called “photobombing.” Three to check out are Random Creepy Guy, This is Photobomb (pictured), and Photo Bombers. All welcome submissions.

Disapproving Rabbits features pictures (and an occasional video) of rabbits looking down their noses at something (which is what rabbits do), along with their disapproving thoughts.

Faces in Places (pictured) features everyday objects and scenes that resembles faces in the human mind. Face Ahoy is another blog specializing in pareidolia, the tendency to see faces and other familiar shapes in places where they aren’t intended. Snowflake Fail chronicles the many examples of snowflakes found that violate the rules of how snowflakes are made (as in they don’t have eight sides). Image by Flickr user Martin Ujlaki.
The ways people abuse the English language is a rich source of blogging material, no matter how specific you want to get. Apostrophe Abuse and Apostrophe Catastrophes both document signs, headlines, and other instances of the misuse of one particular punctuation mark. The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks does the same for quotes. Lower Case L (pictured) takes a look at the curious tendency to leave an “L” in lower case when the rest of the letters are capitalized. It happens more than you might think! GrammarBlog has a somewhat broader format with example of all of the above, plus the misuse of words such as “your” and “you’re”.

A post on oddly specific blogs featuring found photos would not be complete without mentioning Oddly Specific, a blog dedicated to signs that could only be useful in oddly specific situations.
Do you think those are enough niche blogs to hold you for a while? This post barely scratches the surface of the list of niche blogs in my files -I haven’t even started on the food blogs! Be watching for another installment soon, and keep those suggestions coming in.
Thanks for linking to Apostrophe Catastrophes! Also, I had never heard of People Talking on Bananas, but I love it. Hilarious!
posted by Becky on 12-3-2009 at 9:17 am
Failblog. The link should be in my name.
posted by this is not my name on 12-3-2009 at 9:22 am
I love There I Fixed It!! Good times!
posted by Christina on 12-3-2009 at 9:24 am
Oh, how delightful – my pink bathroom is already in the Save the Pink Bathrooms Flickr group, but now I’m going to spread the word about Disapproving Rabbits because it is HILARIOUS.
posted by Adrienne on 12-3-2009 at 9:55 am
I just spent a couple hours with awkwardfamilyphotos.com and antiduckface.com There is a girl I know who I don’t think has ever taken a photo without using duckface… It was magical. Thank you for that!
posted by Shawn on 12-3-2009 at 10:30 am
I just noticed that the photobombing picture is full of duckfaces.
posted by Miss Cellania on 12-3-2009 at 10:37 am
Thanks for the Snowflakefail shout-out. Hexagons forever!
posted by Joe on 12-3-2009 at 10:40 am
OK, this is a blog post aggregating blogs that aggregate pics found on other blogs.
We have just officially used up the Internet. I’m going to turn off this machine and go outside now.
posted by UncaDave on 12-3-2009 at 11:16 am
The next post should definitely include sleeveface.com. It is entirely pictures of people using album covers to replace their faces (or other body parts). Just trust me.
posted by Bert on 12-3-2009 at 11:18 am
Ms. Cellania, I am pretty sure that I love you. Great post, as usual :)
posted by Soph on 12-3-2009 at 11:27 am
Great idea to post about all these niche photo blogs. My favorites are Awkward Family Photo and My Parents Were Awesome – great stuff.
Myself, I’m partial to looking at old photos so I came up with a site I call Vanished Americana. It’s a look back at places, people, etc. from America’s past via old photos and video. Link to site is in my name.
posted by Andrew on 12-3-2009 at 11:51 am
The Pancake Project.
Not my blog. Link in my name.
posted by Kirk on 12-3-2009 at 1:32 pm
Ms. Cellania, you just rocked my world. My day of decorating the house for Christmas has now been replaced with checking out all these blogs. Thanks a million!!!
posted by Arcadia on 12-3-2009 at 3:19 pm
The St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press newspaper has a daily column called “Bulletin Board”. Among other things, it features a recurring section called the “Apostrophe Redistribution Center” in which it prints examples of egregious misuse of apostrophes sent in by the readers.
-”BB”-
reCAPTCHA: ferment BLOOM
posted by Bicycle Bill on 12-3-2009 at 3:28 pm
Duckface!!! Finally a name for that!! and I thought I was the only one that HATES that whole thing…
posted by ashley on 12-3-2009 at 7:10 pm
If I may also pose
“Look at this F***ing Hipster”
a photoblog of the hilarious fashions of those young-adults dubbed “Hipsters”
posted by Matt on 12-4-2009 at 4:28 pm
How about F**k You, Penguin!
http://www.fupenguin.com/
posted by shem on 12-4-2009 at 4:34 pm
OMG! I don’t know where to start with all the snarky awesomeness.
THANKS!
posted by Lindsey on 12-4-2009 at 4:45 pm
So, I thought this be awesome, but now that I’ve spent some time on the site, I’m just sad.
posted by Lindsey on 12-4-2009 at 5:29 pm
Bert, I didn’t think sleeveface.com was going to be any good, but you’re right–it’s fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
posted by Denay on 2-23-2010 at 8:18 pm