World Photography Day is celebrated every year on 19 August. Photography Day is a special day for shutterbugs around the world and for those who do photography. Today, photography is considered to be the most attractive type of art. The idea behind celebrating the day is to inspire people to talk more about the art form that has a rich history.
19 August to pay homage to the history of photography, celebrate the present, and for future leave a positive trail. Let us read more about World Photography Day, history, some famous
World Photography Day 2023
Photography word literally means “drawing with light”. Supposedly the word was first coined in 1839 by the British scientist Sir John Herschel from the Greek words phos (genetive: photos) means “light” and graphe means “drawing or writing”.
The invention of the Daguerreotype which is a photographic process developed by Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1837. As per reports, the French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype process in 1839.
Photography Day wishes
“Clicking pictures is the best way to capture good things and good moments you are surrounded with…. Warm wishes on Photography Day.”
“There is nothing as satisfying as capturing nature into your camera…. Happy Photography Day to you my dear.”
“Nature Photography Day always reminds of our creative side to explore and click nature…. Warm wishes on this special occasion!!!”
“Thanks to technology that we can lock the beauty of nature in our cameras…. Wishing you a very Happy Photography Day.”
Warm wishes on World Photography Day to you…. Click pictures that express like nothing else and impress every heart.”
World Photography Day Messages
“Photography is something that embraces reality in such a subtle way that it actually becomes something more than a reality…. Happy Nature Photography Day to you.”
“You don’t simply take a photograph but you actually create one because it is your skill which helps you create it…. Happy Nature Photography Day”.
Even the regular things in nature can look extraordinary with photography!!!… Happy Nature Photography Day”
“The sun which rises every day when captured right can take many breathes away. Wish you a very Happy Nature Photography Day”
“Nature is always up for surprising us and photography is the way to capture these surprises. Happy Nature Photography Day to you and your family.”
Happy Nature Photography Day wishes for you photographer, today go ahead and smile for the camera for a change, okay?
You have the skill of capturing emotions on the photos you take, so now, just enjoy this day.
How about trying to be in the picture for today instead? Happy National Photography Day”
Happy Photography Quotes
“Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.” – Martin Parr
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”- Alfred Stieglitz
“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”- Annie Leibovitz
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”- Ansel Adams
“Photography helps people to see.”- Berenice Abbott
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”- Diane Arbus
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”- Dorothea Lange
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”-Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”- Imogen Cunningham
“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”- Joe McNally
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”- Robert Frank
“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”- Sally Mann
“Photography is the power of observation, and not the application of technology”- Prerna Sharma
“When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls”- Ted Grant
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” – Scott Lorenzo
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”- David Alan Harvey
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”- Andy Warhol
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”- Robert Capa
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper… the photographer begins with the finished product.”- Edward Steichen
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”– Matt Hardy
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” – Don McCullin