Morning photo: Celebrating World Photography Day

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Bob Berwyn

The ‘birthday’ of photographic imaging

This image started out as a grainly, low-light mistake but I never had the heart to delete it from the camera or from my hard drive. In honor of World Photography Day, I did a little post-processing of the image to try and make it look like a painting. If you're wondering, you're looking at the old ramparts of a castle in Corfu, Greece, with the hills of Albania across the water.

SUMMIT COUNTY — Photographers worldwide picked Aug. 19 as the day to celebrate the birth of their chosen art form. The date is significant because in 1839, the French government made public the methodology used in creating  daguerreotypes, the first permanent photographic print.

Photography has changed since then, but most of the changes involve technology and tools used to create photographic art. The essence remains the same — painting with light and capturing the image in a permanent form that can be shared or displayed. As I read about world photography day, it made me want to scroll through the archives and find a few old and new favorites and look at them in a new way. (more…)

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