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Taking Pictures

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Using Your Device's Camera Viewing Your Pictures Sharing Your Pictures Downloading Pictures to Your Computer Finding Out Where You Took a Picture Edit Pictures on Your Device

The most-photographed person in the world in the nineteenth century was Gen. George Armstrong Custer. There are around 200 known pictures of him. Even a few decades ago, taking pictures was a costly enterprise. When I visited the Soviet Union on a high school class trip, I took around 300 pictures over the course of two weeks. But that, of course, has changed, quite dramatically, in the last few years: On a recent weekend trip to Disneyland, I took close to 1,000 pictures. This meteoric rise in picture taking can be directly attributed to two factors. First, the fact that digital photography has made individual pictures free. My limit of 300 pictures on the trip to Russia was due primarily ...