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Photography is a well known hobby and career<\/strong> around the world. Many people started out with the little shoot and print cameras otherwise known as polaroids<\/a>, working their way to disposable cameras.<\/p>\n

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After a while, they started to work with digital cameras and then eventually graduated to the professional DSLR cameras<\/a> as they got older and saved up enough money to buy one. More and more people get into photography<\/strong> every year, no matter how big or small their skill is.<\/p>\n

There are so many kinds of photography out there. You have portraits, flash photography, black and white, colour, fashion, stock, still life, and so many others. There are at least eighty different photography categories<\/strong> altogether.<\/p>\n

What has sometimes be seen as nothing more than a hobby has become one of the highest paying careers<\/strong> depending on who photographers work for. Big people with money are willing to pay lots of\u00a0 money for the right photographers and photographs.<\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019re going to be talking about twelve of the most expensive photographs of all time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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12. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams<\/h2>\n

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For $609,600<\/strong>, a print edition of Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico<\/em> was sold in an auction by Sotheby\u2019s <\/a>New York on October 17, 2006.<\/p>\n

The photograph was taken by American environmentalist and photographer, Ansel Adams<\/a>, on November 1, 1941. It features a black and white image of US Route 84-285<\/strong> in the afternoon during the later hours of the day.<\/p>\n

Moonrise<\/em> was considered a \u201cperfect marriage of straight and pure photography<\/em>\u201d by H.W. Janson<\/a>, a Russian, American, and Baltic German art history educator.<\/p>\n

This photograph was the most popular one in Adam\u2019s career. After extreme popular demand, over one thousand copies of this were made<\/strong> for people to continue to add to their collection.<\/p>\n

Adams is mostly well known known for his pictures of the Yosemite National Park<\/a> located in California.<\/p>\n