{"id":40369,"date":"2026-08-19T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40369"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:44:04","slug":"august-19-is-world-photography-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40369","title":{"rendered":"August 19 is World Photography Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40370 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">Why today? On August 19, 1839, Louis Daguerre announced the invention of the daguerreotype, the first photographic process of a chemical nature that made an image that remains permanently fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All of the images in these collages were created by me with the exception of half of the last collage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40371 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD2-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>Some of the many photographers I know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40373 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD5-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD5-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD5-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40374 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPD3-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40376 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F5-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F5-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F5-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40378 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F4-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F4-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F4-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/F4-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Half of these photos are family history images and one of them is over 100 years old. The other half were created by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why today? On August 19, 1839, Louis Daguerre announced the invention of the daguerreotype, the first photographic process of a chemical nature that made an image that remains permanently fixed. All of the images in these collages were created by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40382,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40369\/revisions\/40382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}