Joe R. Struble presents: Snapshot… In 1860, the eminent British scientist Sir John Herschel adapted a hunting term for "shooting from the hip without taking careful aim" to the possibility of someday being able to take a photograph in 1/10 of a second. More than 100 years later, the photographer Steven Halpern wrote, "The family albums of my great-grandparents are filled with serious and severe people looking as if they were bringing their souls to judgement. The snapshots in the albums of my parents show Mom and Dad throwing snowballs at each other in the storm of 1947."

[source: The Photographic Historical Society e-mail, 2016-Sep-11]