Leaf of a Plant - Public domain print

Public domain photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot, 19th-century artistic early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Henry Fox Talbot was a British scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer. He is credited with the invention of the calotype, an early photographic process, in 1839. His invention made it possible to produce multiple copies of a photograph, and it was a significant improvement over earlier photographic methods that only produced one unique image. He also made important contributions to the development of photolithography, which is used in printing and reproducing images. He published "The Pencil of Nature" in 1844-1846, it was the first book illustrated with photographs, which he called "photogenic drawings". He also made significant contributions to the field of scientific photography, including the development of photomicrography, the process of using photography to capture images of objects too small to be seen with the naked eye.