Photography can be defined as the process of producing images using light or other forms of radiation to capture objects on light-sensitive surfaces. However, photography means different things to different people. To the author, photography is an art form and creative outlet to capture and remember important people and moments. Photography does not always need to be professionally taken, and can be as simple as capturing a spontaneous moment. It involves freezing time and recording light and shadow to communicate a perspective or point. While it allows some to express emotions, others see it more as a way to teach people how to see the world. Ultimately, the meaning of photography is up to each individual to decide for themselves.

1. Photography

2. What Is Photography?

3. The definition of Photography: the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays.

4. What Photography Is To me…To me it is a art form.To me it is a creative outlet. To me it is a way to capture people, moments, or scenes you love and want to always remember.A way to communicate and get your point across through images.

5. But what is Photography to you?

6. Photography does not always have to be a professionally taken picture. It can be something as simple as this: Capturing the moment Dani decided to steal her mom’s lipstick.

7. Photography is capturing a moment: A quiet summer evening on the lake.

8. Photography is art: You see something that catches your eye, plan out the picture, and snap it.

9. What Others Think About Photography…

10. Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. – Edward Abbey

11. And that desire--the strong desire to take pictures--is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully--and the evidence that other photographers have done so--that keep us taking pictures. – Sam Abell-Seeing and Shooting Straight by Sam Abell

12. You should never think without an image. - Aristotle

13. ...people say they need to express their emotions I'm sick of that. Photography doesn`t teach you to express your emotions it teachs you to see. – Bernice Abbott - Art News, January 1981

14. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.- Dorothea Lange

15. Photography means many different things to many people.

16. So.....

17. It is up to you to decided!