Happy Friday !!

Friday comes from the old English Frīgedæg ‘day of Frigga’, named after the Germanic goddess Frigga, wife of the supreme god Odin and goddess of married love.


In Today's Issue

International Camera Day
The Camera
Dead or Alive
Facts
Random Joke of The Day 
Finish with a Song

International Camera Day

What better way to celebrate today than to take a picture. Save a memory in a second. I've had a great idea, that may just take on, why not take a picture of yourself and share it, lets say, on a social media site. I'm sure people would just 'love it'.

Seriously, the smart phone has revolutionised how we now take pictures. We have a camera with us 24 hours a day, as a consequence, some amazing pictures have been take. But, how many of us print out or pictures? Will future generations know the joy of handing in your film to a Chemist (chemist?)
and having the instant prints, back to you in a week !!!.

So today...take a pic, creative or practical enjoy !

Take a Picture

Take a picture
a single snap
With a camera
or an app.

A captured moment
a spec in time
An image frozen
soundless mime.

A selfie posted
on social media
Collected vanity
'Me' encyclopaedia

We now take pics
of dogs to food
Of bums and boobs
to much more lewd.

And I'm no better
I've done the same
Joined the herd
and shared the shame.

Dead or Alive.

This is where I give you a celebrity ... I ask a 50/50 question, are they Dead or Alive.

Today's star is American comedian and actress Madeline Kahn, star of Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and much much more...

Question...is she Dead or Alive?

Camera Facts

Every two minutes we snap more pictures than the whole of humanity did in the 1800s.

People started making funny cats photos in the 19th century.

The largest photo competition ever held received 353, 768 entries. According to the Gunnies Book of World Records, the largest photography competition entrant is achieved by Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland from the Netherlands at the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 competition. From the 1st of September to the 15th of October, exactly 353, 768 photos were submitted to the contest.

People never smiled on the old photos because they had to stay still for hours.

The inventor of photography was better known for his invention of propeller and boats. Cameras existed way before photographs were invented – they evolved from camera obscura and have been changing throughout centuries. The first somewhat successful photograph was taken in approximately 1816 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. This took him eight hours of exposure to light, and the picture still was fuzzy. Maybe that’s why during his lifetime, Niépce was better known for his invention of a propeller for boats.

The left side of our faces looks better on photographs than the right side.

The most viewed photograph in history is the Windows XP’s default wallpaper called “Bliss”. and here it is.....

Random Joke of the Day

I have a chicken proof lawn...

It's impeccable

Dead or Alive....The answer

I asked, is Madeline Kahn...Dead or Alive?

Unfortunately, she passed away on 3rd December 1999.

Finish With a Song

This is Bucks Fizz, with, My Camera never lies, released in 1982 !