The fine folks over at PetaPixel are reminding us that today marks the 150the anniversary of the first color photograph, taken by Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell and photographer Thomas Sutton — inventor of the SLR camera. Their first color photograph was of a colored ribbon.

Updated May 18, 2011 @ 8:41 AM – Originally I left the word “color” out of the first sentence.  Fixed it.  That’ll teach me not to proofread at least twice.