→Subscribe for new →“Say cheese!” This simple command is meant to elicit a smile from potential photography subjects no matter what their age. It has become so commonplace that the word “say” is often no longer uttered. A simple “cheese” spreads a smile across anyone’s face, and with a click of a button, that smile is captured for eternity. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/the-origin-of-say-cheese-and-when-people-started-smiling-in-photographs/ Sources: http://ohiohistory.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/why-dont-people-smile-in-old-photographs/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/16677/daguerreotype-qa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-16219211 http://www.examiner.com/article/don-t-say-cheese-smiling-for-wedding-photos-isn-t-traditional http://www.petapixel.com/2012/11/04/say-prunes-not-cheese-the-history-of-smiling-in-photographs/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_%28camera%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/june/1/photo_album.aspx http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/june/1/photo_album.aspx http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2222/why-do-photographers-ask-you-to-say-cheese http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/say-cheese.html Image Credit: http://www.missionsfestvancouver.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/iStock_000018623386Small.jpg http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/battleships/hood_1918/front_pages/1941_05_25_big_spring.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Franklin_D._Roosevelt_-_NARA_-_196816.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Queen_Victoria_1887.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Alfred_Stieglitz_self-portrait,_freienwald,_1886.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Photographer-studio-1893.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/View_from_the_Win