What is photo?

A photo is like a special drawing that captures how things look at a certain moment.

Imagine you have a toy camera, it's like a little box with a window on one side and a screen inside. When you point the camera at something fun, like your favorite stuffed animal or your brother jumping in puddles, and press a button, light goes through that window and makes a picture on the screen.

That’s what happens when you take a photo, light from the world around you goes into the camera, and it creates a copy of what you saw. It's like drawing with light instead of crayons!

When you draw, you use colors and lines to show what something looks like. A photo is similar but uses light and a special screen (or film) to do the job.

Think about it this way: your eyes work like a camera, they catch light from things around you, and that’s how you see them. When you take a photo, the camera does almost the same thing, it catches light so you can remember what something looked like later!