Results: August 19th Is World Photography Day
Published on 08/11/2016
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August 19th is World Photography Day, a day that has been celebrated since 2010. Do you fancy yourself a good photographer?
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I am a professional photographer
2%
20 votes
I am an amateur photographer, but very good at it
13%
154 votes
I love to take pictures, but not that great -- more of a point and shoot type
34%
387 votes
I am a terrible photographer -- let someone else take pictures for me
13%
152 votes
I don't even try
19%
220 votes
N/A
18%
210 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
7 votes
Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
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OK photographer | 0.09% | 1 |
I photograph many items to sell on eBay | 0.09% | 1 |
just take pic's of family friends pets i do remember this picture very sad | 0.09% | 1 |
Just learning | 0.09% | 1 |
Former art director | 0.09% | 1 |
I like taking pictures, but can't find my camera. | 0.09% | 1 |
0.09% | 1 |
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Here's some photography trivia to honor the day. Which ones are you familiar with?
![Here's some photography trivia to honor the day. Which ones are you familiar with?](https://www.tellwut.com/uploads/media/image/thumb/12420e1471608541o1909.jpg)
The date celebrates August 19, 1839, when the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype and released it free to the world
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The daguerreotype, invented in 1837, was the first practical photographic process
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92 votes
The earliest known permanent photographic image, however, was created by a more complex process called heliography in 1826.
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The exposure time needed to create the above mentioned photograph was eight hours
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Thanks to digital cameras on mobile phones, more than 350 billion photos are now taken worldwide every year.
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128 votes
Around 250 billion photographs have been uploaded to Facebook
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had a darkroom installed at Windsor Castle in England to indulge their passion for photography.
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The first photo of the Moon was in 1851; the first photo of its dark side was in 1959
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The earliest known use of the word 'photograph' was in 1839 by the astronomer Sir John Herschel
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The earliest known use of the abbreviation 'photo' was by Queen Victoria in a letter in 1860
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None
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818 votes
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Photography can document history and memories better than any other medium, and as they say "a picture is worth a thousand words". How many of these famous iconic photos do you remember?
![Photography can document history and memories better than any other medium, and as they say](https://www.tellwut.com/uploads/media/image/thumb/12420e1471608551o6917.jpg)
Black power salute at 1968 Olympics
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224 votes
Napalm scarred little girl running from her burning village in Vietnam (pictured with question 1)
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350 votes
Man standing in front of tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square in Beijing to suppress protests
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328 votes
South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Vietcong member Nguyen Van Lem in the street (pictured with question 2)
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221 votes
Wait For Me Daddy, is the touching photograph of young Canadian Warren Bernard running after his father who had just signed up to the war effort during WWII
9%
109 votes
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
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357 votes
Horrific picture of a starving girl in Sudan, taken in 1993 (pictured with this question)
17%
194 votes
The image of a man standing up to Heinrich Himmler, one of the architects of the Holocaust, has become an iconic image of defiance against evil (pictured with question 4)
10%
113 votes
The falling man is one of the simplest and most horrifying images from 9/11
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259 votes
Nelson Mandela walks free from prison on February 11, 1990, having spent 27 years behind bars
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243 votes
All of them
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57 votes
None of them
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448 votes
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Is there a photograph that is either not mentioned, or one that you have personally taken that you vividly remember?
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There are many
22%
250 votes
One stands out
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118 votes
Not sure
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306 votes
No
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476 votes
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