A photoblog is a form of a blog, differentiated by the predominant use or focus on the author's photographs rather than text. Some blogs also contain pictures; some photoblogs also contain text. When is a blog a photoblog? When the images are not just used to illustrate the text, but are the main subject.

The use of personal image/photograph galleries have been around for many years, but it was with the emergence of blogging, and the systems that enabled blogging, that people found themselves able to publish images to their website in a chronological order - thus adding a fresh and dynamic approach, as opposed to the static gallery.

Like more common text-based blogs, photoblogs usually have one author, but some have two or many more authors.

Like text-based blogs, entries are usually posted to the photoblog by the author on a regular basis. The resulting posts are usually time stamped and listed in chronological order with the most recent photo (or photos) shown first and on the main page of the photoblog. Older entries are accessed via links that allow a visitor to navigate forward and back, chronologically through a photoblog's images.

Typically, some kind archive is available, often divided by month or category. Most photoblogs also allow visitors to leave comments that are associated with a particular entry. These comments allow a photoblog to establish a community of visitors. Comments usually link back to the commenter's site. This further permits the creation of a loose community with authors and visitors able to access, share and communicate through each others sites.

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