For all of you photography/literature nerds out there....I stumbled across an interesting article today about Edgar Allen Poe and his initial impressions of the camera as it was invented in 1839.
The piece at the bottom, talking about how just 130 years after he wrote this, we took a camera into space to take photos on the moon, is mind blowing.
Check it out!
http://petapixel.com/2015/10/08/heres-what-edgar-allan-poe-wrote-about-the-birth-of-photography-in-1840/
-R