Lacock Abbey Cloister

A last minute decision to book myself onto a macro photography day in Wiltshire tomorrow saw me today heading to the village of Lacock and home to William Henry Fox Talbot, renown for being the inventor of negative print photography which dominated our photography until the rise of digital cameras in the late 1990s / early 2000s.  

He created his first negative in 1835 of a lattice window in  the former abbey, part of a nunnery,  purchased by an ancestor in the 1500s after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and owned by the family until Fox Talbot's granddaughter gave it to the National Trust in the 1950s. My shot of the same window plus a replica of the camera, affectionately called mousetraps by his wife, can be seen in extras.

Despite a less than perfect day weatherwise (think showers and little sun!) I had a great day wandering the abbey and village taking too many photos, some of which may appear in future paintings.

The main shot is of the nun's cloisters which remain remarkably untouched from Henry VIII's onslaught.