August 19th is World Photography Day: Take a photo and share it with us!

Image: ngupakarti / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Attention photographers: Tuesday, August 19th, is World Photography Day! World Photography Day is a global celebration that honors Louis Daguerre's invention of the daguerreotype. After presenting his invention to the French Academy of Sciences in 1839, Daguerre arranged to transfer the rights to the process to the French government in exchange for a lifetime pension for himself and Isidore Niépce, son of Nicéphore Niépce, wi...