Cinemagraphs are the development of .gif images and how we create them which becomes a great innovation in digital photography. It’s a cinematic loop in a form of a .gif image. Firstly introduced by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg who described in cinemagraph.com: “an image that contains within itself a living moment that allows a glimpse of time to be experienced and preserved endlessly.”
It looks like a movie file but it’s a .gif still image where some parts of the image are moving smoothly. Since it was introduced, lots of photographers created this style, even amateur photographers can do it, here are mostly their first attempts at Cinemagraph: