The World Photography Day

It’s not just a photo, it’s a memory paused and forever kept, it’s travel through times…

Nourhan M. Sabek

Hello everyone, how are you? How’s everything? Today is World Photography Day, and today I want to celebrate this with you all.

1st, let’s grab our coffee or any drink you prefer, and without any further ado let’s go…

I won’t bother you with many historical facts, because you can find all if you Google it, or if more interested, read more in photography history and facts.

World Photography Day is every year on August 19, it celebrates the art, craft, history, and science of photography around the world; you may know many brands and names famous in the industry of photography such as Kodak, even so it’s not as before but still famous, also Sony which is now one of the most famous brands in cameras and lenses, Nikon, Canon, Leica, and Fuji; a lot of names in the industry and each has a history filled with dreams, failure, and success.

There’s a story that the history of photography doesn’t talk about Much especially in the West, photography was known as a scientific process long before it was invented and the one who invented the idea of light and the photo making was an Arabian and so famous in many scientific fields and languages called Ibn El Haythem, he was in the jail when he realized the idea of the light the reflects the photo, in his jail was a small hole that had a ray of light he realized that light reflects the outside shape inside his jail but upside down, so he could see outside but as a still image, then he invented the dark room or the camera obscure (the first ever) and made a hole in it and realized that anything he puts outside of it reflects inside this dark room or dark box but inverted and he wrote more than 37 books about the science of optics; this invention was around 1011 AC…

If you want to know more details, you can Google Ibn El Haythem name and camera obscure, you’ll find everything about him and the experiment.

After that amazing experiment by a long time, dates back to 1839. At that time, the French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype process. The process made it possible to create a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper. At that time the materials were so heavy to carry around, but over 40 years later in 1884, George Eastman from Rochester, NY refined the Daguerreotype process. He replaced the copper plate with a dry gel on paper, which he called film. Eastman was the one who developed the Kodak camera…

Google more about the invention of the cameras and the art of making photos, and yes it’s called making photos not taking it…

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
– Ansel Adams

Now, we can make photos easily with digital cameras, DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, and phones, back then making photos was an art, unfortunately what I see our days is that because photos have become easy to make it lost the idea of calling it an art, everyone thinks it’s easy to have camera or use their photo to make photo and post it and then likes and shares…

The art of photography is much more, it’s a way of seeing things and a way of making stories without words, it’s a time machine, it makes the moment pause and saves it forever; it’s not just something to post on social media to make so many likes and comments; it’s an art and as we celebrate this day let me show you some of my work as a photographer.

For more photography, see my account on social media Here. Also there you’ll find my linktree that has all of my work and art…

Thank you all for celebrating this day with me, thanks for subscribing and if you’re new here, subscribe for more to come soon; till next time stay safe, smile, and never give up your dreams; love you all. XO XO ❤️ ❤️