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National Geographic Pictures of the Year: As one of the most respected and well-known organizations for nature photography, National Geographic began its “Pictures of the Year” contest in 2023. It invites photographers, both amateur and professional, to submit photos to compete in one of four categories: nature, people, places, and animals ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtós), genitive of φῶς (phōs), "light" [2] and γραφή (graphé) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", [3] together meaning "drawing with light". [4] Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently.
There are many instances where people believe photos will bring bad luck either to the person taking the picture or people captured in the photo. For instance, a photograph taken of a pregnant woman will bring bad luck to the baby in the womb and photos taken of dead people will ensure that person is not successful in the afterlife. [12]
Each photo covered two hundred and twenty-five square miles. One of its first government contracts was an aerial survey of New Mexico to study soil erosion. [20] A year later, Fairchild introduced a better high altitude camera with nine-lens in one unit that could take a photo of 600 square miles with each exposure from 30,000 feet. [21]
Erin Jones, Bridget Opfer, and Kieran McCutcheon join thousands of people taking part in a candlelight vigil on the Mall in Washington D.C. September 12, 2001 in memory of the victims of the ...
Rephotography continues to be used by the scientific world to record incremental or cyclical events (of erosion, or land rehabilitation, [8] or glacier flow [9] for example), or to measure the extent of sand banks in a river, or other phenomena which change slowly over time, [10] and in gathering evidence of climate change.
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