A baya weaver bird building its nest on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Photo: Nagara Gopal
A collection of images shot by The Hindu’s photographers to mark the
World Photography Day 19 Aug 2014
World Photography Day is observed on August 19 every year to mark the invention of Daguerreotype Process by Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce and Louis Daguerre on this day in 1839.
On this day in 1839, Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce and Louis Daguerre developed the Daguerreotype Process, the ability to capture an image using a camera obscura onto a light sensitive silver iodide plate.
A young folk artiste performs a balancing act on the streets of Chennai. Photo: M. Prabhu
A seller bakes corn cob on the sands of Marina Beach in Chennai. Photo: M. Srinath
Children pose with their photos taken by photography students, at Government Tribal Residential School in Kargudy, Nilgiris. Photo: M. Sathyamoorthy
An antique Xenar Schneider -Kreuznach 4×5 German field camera of the 1913 gets a dusting outside Hyderabad’s oldest Victory Photo in Secunderabad. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar
A woman shoots with her Canon DSLR camera. Women make up 29 per cent of Canon’s registered users in India. Photo: Bijoy Ghosh
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