"Photography - where it all began."

Location: Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, UK. The main image, of the window with the lattice panes, is of THE window that appears in the world's first ever photographic negative - a very famous image, which scientist William Henry Fox Talbot produced in 1835. At the same time as Talbot was developing (no pun intended) his newly-invented process another pioneer in the field, Daguerre, was working on a different but equally viable process - each unaware of the other. Whilst there is, or was, discussion about who got there first, the is no doubt that it was Talbot's system which paved the way for photography as we know it: or rather as we knew it in the 19th and 20th centuries - using a negative image from which unlimited positives could be produced. (The 21st century has, of course, changed the whole game.) The adjacent image in this collage is of that same window from the outside, and the other two are of Lacock Abbey itself, and of a Cloisters view within the abbey.