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A little bit of photography history…

First photo ever taken — 1826

The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in the Burgundy region of France. click for picture.

First photo of a person — 1838

In 1838, Louis Daguerre took this image of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris where he unintentionally recorded the first person in a photograph. The man down at the bottom left getting his shoes shined was the only person on the street that paused long enough to be recorded by his long exposure. click for picture.

First self-portrait — 1939

Selfies have come a long way since Robert Cornelius took this quarter plate size daguerreotype made outside his family store back in 1839. And the first self-portrait, known as the "Portrait of a Man in a Turban," is attributed to the renowned artist Jan van Eyck. Created in 1433. as it is widely regarded as the earliest known painted self-portrait.

First photo of the sun — 1845

French Physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault took the first ever photo of our sun using the Daguerreotype process on April 2nd, 1845. If you look at the photo closely, you can spot several sunspots.

First aerial photograph — 1858

The first known aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by French photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, also known as Nadar. He captured the image from a tethered hot air balloon over the French village of Petit-Becetre.

First color photo — 1861

Mathematical physicist, James Clerk Maxwell unveiled the first color photograph in 1861 of a three-color bow. The inventor of the SLR, Thomas Sutton, pressed the shutter button, but Maxwell is credited with the scientific process.

First underwater color photo — 1926

National Geographic photographer Charles Martin and botanist William Longley took the first color underwater photograph in 1926. The image of a hogfish was taken in the Florida Keys.

First digital photograph — 1957

The first digital photo was taken back in 1957; almost 20 years before Kodak invented the first digital camera. The photograph is a digital scan of a photo initially taken on film. The picture depicts Russell Kirsch’s son and has a resolution of 176×176.

First photo of a fully lit earth — 1972

‘The Blue Marble” photograph taken on December 7, 1972, is one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. The image was the first to show a fully illuminated Earth as the astronauts had the Sun behind them when they took the image.