I was shy at first. I did not like people 1 me when I was taking pictures. I would even hide my camera 2 I wouldn't attract attention to myself. It didn't take long before I found I really liked taking pictures. 3 , I would go to places that people would not be looking at me. I would lie on the ground, or point the 4 at unusual angles (角度). I liked the pictures I got. As I let others look at 5 pictures, I found the unusual ones were the ones people liked the most and talked about the most. Now I am not 6 to do whatever it takes to get an "unusual" picture.
One day I was at a car show and I lay 7 on the ground and looked down the side of a car. As I got up, an old 8 was looking at me and said, "That's a different type of picture." I 9 him the picture on my camera. He looked at me and said, "Wow, that's nice!" As I walked away, I looked back and he was down taking the same picture.
I 10 . I had just helped that man look at the world a little differently…
In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist, so he invented a very simple camera（照相机）. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo. The next important date in the history of photography（摄影术）was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the world. People took picture of famous buildings，cities and mountains.
In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographer had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard. Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike（栩栩如生的）.
Photography also became a kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings, like other art forms.
