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World Photography day August 19, here some interesting Quotes about Photography

World Photography day, August 19

Today, Photography is considered as the most interesting kind of art and some of the best explorers in the ground. There are so many explorers capturing usual moments as most unusual shots.

Its not only depends on their lens and also depends on their thoughts and amazing words. 

Imported day : 19 August, 1839

The origin of photography was from French, the French government presented daguerreotype process "Free to the World", invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre as a gift to the world on this day in 1839.

Here some interesting Quotes about Photography

Here some of most interesting Quotes that related to Photography:

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."- Ansel Adams

"A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera."- Dorothea Lange

"Don't pack up your camera until you've left the location."- Joe McNally

 "Photography is the power of observation, and not the application of technology"- Prerna Sharma

"Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like."- David Alan Harvey

"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph."– Matt Hardy

"What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce." - Karl Lagerfeld

"The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do."- Andy Warhol

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper... the photographer begins with the finished product."- Edward Steichen

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."- Robert Capa

"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."- Alfred Stieglitz

"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."- Annie Leibovitz

"Photography helps people to see."- Berenice Abbott

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."- Diane Arbus

"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."-Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow."- Imogen Cunningham

 "The eye should learn to listen before it looks."- Robert Frank

"Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future."- Sally Mann

"The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality." – Scott Lorenzo

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Google Virtual tour for India's Independence Day

Google Virtual tour for India's Independence Day

Google is hosting a virtual tour featuring some of the landmarks parts of India's virtual exhibits on Google cultural Institute.

All the collections by Google will have special images and artifacts from the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

From the First oath of India's First Prime Minister, Jawawharlal Nehru on the country's 'Tryst with Destiny' in the Red Fort and also visit the place where he unfurled the Tricolor on 15 August 1947.

This virtual tour also covers 

  • Sabarmati Ashram, Gandhi's residence. 
  • Dandi march, in 1930, then 
  • Cellular Jail in Port Blair and Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar.
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SG50, Singapore 50 TODAY !!

Singapore 50, National Day Parade

The National Day of Singapore is celebrated every year on August 9th.
Singapore got Independence from Malaysia in the year 1965.
This holiday features a National Day Parade, an address by the Prime Minister of Singapore, and fireworks celebrations.



National Day Rally

On the 2nd/3rd Sunday after the National Day, the Prime Minister of Singapore makes an annual address to the nation, called the National Day Rally.

National Day celebration

National Day celebrations also include fireworks celebrations.
They feature several local and foreign teams which launch fireworks displays on different nights.
First held in 2004 at Marina Bay.
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Mont Blanc First Ascent TODAY.!

Mont Blanc 

Google's latest doodle memorializes the 229th anniversary of the historic climb to Mont Blanc.

On August 8, 1786, two Frenchmen (Michael Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat) made history.
Mont Blanc

Most important Facts about Mont Blanc:


  • Frenchmen Michael Gabriel Paccard & Jacques Balmat Were the First to Reach the Top in 1786
  • Marie Paradis Was the First Woman to Reach the Summit
  • Paccard Later Married Balmat’s Sister
  • Mont Blanc Is Still Considered One of the Most Dangerous Climbs in the Alps

About Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc or Monte Bianco, both meaning "White Mountain".

Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest peak in Europe outside of the Caucasus range. 

It rises 4,807 m above sea level and is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence.
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