Six (6) importance of photograph in geography studies.

Photograph is a picture taken by means of film in the the camera OR this is an image of object which is recorded by a camera on light sensitive film or paper. Camera is basic equipment used in taking photograph and develop it on special paper known as film.

The following are importance of photograph in geography studies:

It gives quick information about an area than a map
Photograph can work instead of the map i.e it is used to determine features formed on landscape such as man made features like roads, houses and natural features like hills mountain, oceans etc
It does not need trained eyes to identify features because all features are shown as they are
Photograph is used to store information for future generation
Photograph replace a great deal of verbal description and there fore they save time
It is used to show different geographical events, for example one can determine the climate of the area by looking at the crops and relief shown in photograph of that area.