Thank you for providing the interesting etymology of snapshot.
Hard to get away with "Just snapping pictures" when using a classy-looking 100+ year old 5x7. They won't believe you. There is a point where feigned modesty starts to sound a bit pretentious.
Linguistic terminology is a problem on APUG, particularly between American and English. Some months ago, I posted a thread about being photogenic and it seems in the USA it means being beautiful, but in the UK, it refers to looking good in photographs. My OP is obviously doomed to misunderstanding, as pointed out by Don_ih.
‘Was it Wilde or Shaw?’ The answer appears to be: both. In The Canterville Ghost (1887), Wilde wrote: ‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. However, the 1951 Treasury of Humorous Quotations (Esar & Bentley) quotes Shaw as saying: ‘England and America are two countries separated by the same language’, but without giving a source. The quote had earlier been attributed to Shaw in Reader’s Digest (November 1942).
Sometimes I’m in a Minor White mood, and sometimes Ansel Adams is my go to!
Those who take and those who make
Photography now seems to be more make than take. I am not just referring to digital, as there are many makers who use film. I realise it is not just a binary choice, but are you primarily a maker or taker? I think of myself as a taker.
I prefer to use common parlance and the commonly understood phrase is to "take" a photo. I understand why people use the word "make", and I hope they continue to use whatever word they prefer, but if I'm honest it gives off an air of elitism and egotism to me. Just like the word "photograph" sounds more high-class than "photo". I don't want to go to wine parties or spend a lot of time in museums. I just want to spend time doing what I find engaging and thrilling, and that happens to involve cameras and film.
Does anyone actually say to their family, "I'm going out to build (make) some pictures?
Not my kids...or at least they would think I'm being no more weird than usual. Do you really think you are 'normal'?I am sorry, but you are just as weird as the rest of us here.
But no, I would not say that I was going out to 'take, make, or build' some pictures. I would say what I was actually going to do..."I am off to photograph." Or perhaps "I'm going to check out the light. "...(which my boys would understand even if I did not take a camera.)
Try it; you'll likely be surprised.
The opposite, I suppose, is when someone looks at our camera gear and assumes that we are professional because "it looks expensive". The last time that happened I explained that the equiment I was using hasn't been used professionally for 40 years. That gets rid of busybodies too, except those who feign that they know what they are talking about.
Yeah..... this thread hearkens back to posts about "Being An Artist"Does anyone actually say to their family, "I'm going out to build (make) some pictures?" Who talks like that? Don't you just say, "I'm going out to shoot (or take) some pictures?" I mean, you can still think you're going out to "build" them. But if you use that word, your kids are going to think you're kind of weird.
... How about I:m going out to "record" some pictures? ...
not unlike people with a PhD, in one field or another, calling themselves a doctor
To record a record?
How about I:m going out to "record" some pictures? I don;t think that word has been mentioned.
Sometimes I take.
Sometimes I make.
Sometimes I Shake & Bake.
Im taking a break from the keyboard today to document the interactions of light with a variety of subjects including, but not limited to, reflections and shadows using chemical-based recording media.
I shall not take or make or fake, nor shall I shake. And God help me if I even think of shooting anyone or anything.
nor shall I shake
The last line tell us that you live in California.
PhD graduates are, quite literally, "doctors". Philosophiae Doctor is what they are. Or DPhil, Doctor of Philosophy, as they are known when they obtain the title from the most prestigious university in the world, University of Oxford, UK.
The ones you are thinking about, who later appropriated the "doctor" title, are "physicians".
The term "Doctor" originally meant "teacher" and was applied to many fields, among them medicine.
The divide between academic fields wasn't particularly strict in the Renaissance.
On the PhD thing - it's actually amusing to read how e.g. the PhD defense of Felix Platter shows parallels with customs still in use today (see the book by Emmanual Le Roy Ladurie on the Platter family). Platter, coincidentally, was a doctor in medicine, and he obtained a PhD. So he was a doctor, doctor, I guess. Or maybe a doctor, squared, even.
I thought that was "wake & bake"?
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