[Arrangement of plants] - Public domain

Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hippolyte Bayard was a French photographer and one of the pioneers of photography in the 19th century. He is best known for his self-portrait "The First Photograph," in which he pretends to have drowned himself in despair over the invention of photography, which he believed would render his art of painting obsolete. The photograph was created in 1840, the same year that the daguerreotype process was announced to the public. Bayard's photograph is considered one of the earliest examples of conceptual photography.