Results: August 19th Is World Photography Day
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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?
I am a professional photographer
2%
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20 votes
I am an amateur photographer, but very good at it
13%
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154 votes
I love to take pictures, but not that great -- more of a point and shoot type
34%
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387 votes
I am a terrible photographer -- let someone else take pictures for me
13%
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152 votes
I don't even try
19%
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220 votes
N/A
18%
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210 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
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7 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 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?
The date celebrates August 19, 1839, when the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype and released it free to the world
4%
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50 votes
The daguerreotype, invented in 1837, was the first practical photographic process
8%
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92 votes
The earliest known permanent photographic image, however, was created by a more complex process called heliography in 1826.
4%
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51 votes
The exposure time needed to create the above mentioned photograph was eight hours
5%
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61 votes
Thanks to digital cameras on mobile phones, more than 350 billion photos are now taken worldwide every year.
11%
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128 votes
Around 250 billion photographs have been uploaded to Facebook
7%
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77 votes
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had a darkroom installed at Windsor Castle in England to indulge their passion for photography.
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50 votes
The first photo of the Moon was in 1851; the first photo of its dark side was in 1959
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59 votes
The earliest known use of the word 'photograph' was in 1839 by the astronomer Sir John Herschel
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33 votes
The earliest known use of the abbreviation 'photo' was by Queen Victoria in a letter in 1860
3%
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33 votes
None
71%
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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?
Black power salute at 1968 Olympics
19%
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224 votes
Napalm scarred little girl running from her burning village in Vietnam (pictured with question 1)
30%
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350 votes
Man standing in front of tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square in Beijing to suppress protests
29%
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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)
19%
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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%
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109 votes
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
31%
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357 votes
Horrific picture of a starving girl in Sudan, taken in 1993 (pictured with this question)
17%
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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%
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113 votes
The falling man is one of the simplest and most horrifying images from 9/11
23%
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259 votes
Nelson Mandela walks free from prison on February 11, 1990, having spent 27 years behind bars
21%
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243 votes
All of them
5%
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57 votes
None of them
39%
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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?
There are many
22%
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250 votes
One stands out
10%
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118 votes
Not sure
27%
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306 votes
No
41%
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476 votes
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