telephotography

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The process or technique of photographing distant objects, using a telephoto lens on a camera.
2. n. The technique or process of transmitting charts, pictures, and photographs over a distance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The art of photographing distant objects by means of telescopic lenses and a camera specially designed for the purpose. See telephote, 2, and telephotographic lens.
2. n. The art (not yet attained) of producing a photograph of an object distant and invisible from the camera, by means of electrical connections with a suitable apparatus situated near the object.

Wiktionary

1. n. photography Photography of distant subjects using a telephoto lens
2. n. The transmission of images over a distance, especially by facsimile

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.
2. n. Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance, especially by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.
3. n. Less properly, phototelegraphy.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. photography using a telephoto lens
2. n. transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance