In The Beginning

Was the Camera Obscura. It all started here - a little box with a lens or a hole that miraculously projects an image that captured the fascination of the human so much so that now we all carry one around and produce images on an industrial scale and.....Blip!

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Roland Barthes from 'Camera Lucida':

"For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood."

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The image shows a view beyond a house over the Aire Valley, West Yorks. UK. with Baildon Moor on the skyline.