25 interesting photographs from the series “One by one from the world” (26 photos)

Obviously, in the digital age, everyone who is not too lazy takes photographs. And sometimes a person with a mobile phone in his hands can perform no worse than a professional photographer - simply because he was in the right place at the right time.





It's likely that if you have a camera phone, you take pictures every day. Today it is difficult to imagine our life without the ability to take a photo in a matter of seconds at any moment. However, just a few decades ago things were different.

While the image widely considered to be the first photograph—the view from the window of French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce, captured using a process known as heliography—was taken as early as 1826, the first camera telephone did not appear until the turn of the century, and the origins digital photography goes back to the early 1970s (and to a man named Steven Sasson).

1. Fireflies captured at long exposure - Vitor Scietti



In 1973, a young engineer named Steven Sasson joined Eastman Kodak, a company that has been producing photography-related products since the late 19th century, ushering in the development of digital photography. Since then, people have been able to take incredibly vivid pictures not only with a professional camera, but even with a phone camera.

When Sasson arrived at Kodak, he was given the seemingly insignificant task of trying to figure out whether there was any practical use for a charge-coupled device (C.C.D.), a light-sensitive device that can convert light into electronic signals, writes the New York Time. According to Sasson, almost no one knew about his work on this device, not because it was a secret, but because it was “not that big of a project.”

2. Coffee table “Infinity”





After years of hard work and determination, Sasson found a way to give people photographic images, albeit of a quality that would be considered poor at best in this day and age.

“It only took 50 milliseconds to acquire an image, but it took 23 seconds to record it on tape,” says Sasson. “I would take out the tape, hand it to my assistant, and he would insert it into our playback device. After about 30 seconds, a black and white image of 100 pixels by 100 pixels appeared.”

For comparison, phone camera resolutions today typically range from 12 to 48 megapixels, and one megapixel (MP) is equal to 1,000,000 pixels.

3. Baby terrapins (tufted turtles). Note the individual pattern on each shell



Even though the first digital camera was patented in 1978, Sasson was not allowed to discuss it publicly or show it to anyone outside of Kodak.

About ten years later, with his colleague Robert Hills, he created the first modern digital single-lens reflex (DSP) camera with a 1.2-megapixel sensor that used image compression and memory cards.

4. A family of red squirrels sleeps in a nest they made in someone's window.



It is obvious that since then photography has developed by leaps and bounds, because today some cameras have matrices of more than 100 megapixels. It's no wonder that with cameras advancing at an exponential rate, fewer and fewer people see the point in having a second device just to take pictures.

5. The eruption of Mount Etna (Sicily) creates the illusion of a phoenix in the sky



6. Japanese landscape and garden art - paintings in rice fields



7. Simon Berger creates works of art by smashing glass panels with a hammer - a slow and precise process due to the risk of shattering them.



8. In 2012, French beekeepers couldn't solve the mystery of the blue and green colors of honey in their hives until they discovered that the bees were visiting a local M&M's factory.



9. A meteor that fell into Indonesia's most active volcano, Merapi



10. An abandoned Chinese village claimed by nature



11. The shadow of the tree did not allow the snow under it to melt



12. Tibetan carved skull 350 years old



13. Street art in Italy



14. Gingko tree in the Guanyin Buddhist Temple, it is more than 1400 years old



15. Samurai helmet in the shape of an octopus, 18th century



16. Sunlight penetrates the inner sanctum of Amun-Ra in the temple of King Ramses III, Egypt



17. Top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt



18. Cosmoderus femoralis is a species of armored cricket found in Cameroon



19. Neptune Statue, Spain



20. Lightning strikes the beach



21. Venice, view from above. Do you see a swan?



22. “Staircase of Death” - Peru



23. Tokyo flood control sewer



24. Apartment buildings in Copenhagen



25. Heavenly camping in the mountains of China