Lathe Arch, Alabama Hills, California

 

Photo of the Day: March 13, 2013. An Editors' Pick from our 2012 Photo Contest.
Photo and caption by Bob Bush (Altadena, CA); Photographed February 01, 2011, Lathe Arch, Alabama Hills, California

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Photo of the Day: March 13, 2013. An Editors' Pick from our 2012 Photo Contest.
Photo and caption by Bob Bush (Altadena, CA); Photographed February 01, 2011, Lathe Arch, Alabama Hills, California

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/photo-of-the-day/?c=y&date=03/13/2013#ixzz2NdKPK5CV
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Lightning Hitting the Seattle Space Needle

                               

Photo of the Day: March 15, 2013. An Editors' Pick from our 2012 Photo Contest.
Photo and caption by Clane Gessel (Seattle, WA); Photographed August 01, 2010, Seattle, WA

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Photography

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Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor.^[1] Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing.
The result in a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically developed into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing.
Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing (e.g. photolithography), art, recreational purposes, and mass communication.