Photography is an art and a science, it is highly practical or functional and purely aesthetic, it all depends to what use we put it. Many businesses (like home photography business) depend on photography and the entire written media is supported by photo materials of events. In fact, people have got used to seeing pictures for the columns they read. Other than this one major application of photography, people take pictures because they like it and they can.

The beginning of photography can be traced back to the discovery of the camera obscura in the antiquity. Before the development of digital cameras, photography depended exclusively on films. As a recording medium, the film is now considered obsolete in comparison with the great achievements and possibilities of digital technology. A latent image is created on the film, and then it becomes usable when processed chemically in the studio.

We can hardly mention all the uses of photography for such long lists. Together with the recorded videos of a certain event, pictures provide highly reliable scientific evidence. There are military, archaeological, forensic, data storage and geographical applications for photography, and these are the largest and most extensively used. Identity control and personal documents require photos. Other than these official applications, there is the entertainment side of photography that can’t be ignored.

The average mobile phone user takes photos with the cellular. The technology has reached such an extent that photography dominates so many intimate moments in our lives. There is no wedding or baptism without photo shooting and video recording. Or take into consideration traveling; it’s inevitable that we’ll take at least one camera with us on the journey we’re taking.

There is one other side of this photography that is, in a sense, less of a photography business, but this falls into the realm of art… and there is hardly anything commercial about it. Photographers with international recognition have photography exhibitions in famous art galleries. They are invited to commemorate events, support shows or just give expression to a feeling, an opportunity, an occasion that would otherwise be lost for good. Artistic photos oppose everything that is practical or commercial: their sole purpose is just to express and delight in an artistic way.