This is Peter Nixon who has been photographing the people who stand for Ukraine at a vigil week after week more or less since the war began.
Shot with a Canon R6 with 35mm RF lens.
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Definition of the word ‘snapshot’
Noun: an informal photograph taken quickly, typically with a small handheld camera.
If I had to guess when someone coined the term ‘snapshot’ I would think it was definitely within the past forty or fifty years. And if I was told it was earlier, I would guess in the 1930s. And if I was told it was even earlier, I would guess it was when Kodak brought out the Box Brownie camera in about 1900. If I was told it was even earlier, I would guess it was when George Eastman brought out the first Kodak camera in 1888.
In fact the term ‘snapshot’ was coined by Sir John Herschel, a British scientist and astronomer, in 1860. Herschel used the term to describe a photograph ‘taken quickly, as a hunter would take a quick shot without aiming carefully’.
