Some Thoughts On Photography

A Brief History of Photography

As we've previously mentioned, one of the activities that we enjoy when we are hiking and camping in the backcountry is taking photos of the beauty that we see.
 
Like most of us with auto-focus digital cameras and smart phones, we normally take the whole photographic process for granted. But it has been a long road to get to where we are today from the start of photography back in the early 1800's.
 
If you are interested in a brief history of photography (well relatively brief since there are 14 posts) then here is a great series of posts, written by a friend of ours, for you to read about how photography began and advanced through the years.

The posts on “A Brief History of Photography” cover the following topics:
 
Part 14 – Photography in Yosemite B.A. (Before Ansel)
Part 13 - The Early Story of Leica, Short Version
Part 12 – Movements: Pictorialism versus Straight Photography
Part 11 – Early Portrait Photography
Part 10 – Sputnik & Digital Photography
Part 9   – Polaroid & Instant Film
Part 8   – Kodachrome & Color Film
Part 7   – The Dawn of Color
Part 6   – KODAK & the Birth of Film
Part 5   – Dry Plate Photography
Part 4   – Wet Plate Collodion
Part 3   – The Birth of the Negative
Part 2   – Daguerre
Part 1   – The Beginnings
 
You can find the posts on the "Not Quite in Focus" website.