Photograpghic Pop Quiz

[Mj]

Hey guys...

Ok... just cause I've been there now, i thought I'd post these pics and see who knows their significance in photographic history (well that of the location that is).







Oh... and nice to be back.... with a bit of luck, and work willing, I might be a little more active here than over the last year or so.


Michael.

[aim54x]

Can I hazard a guess it is where the first photo was taken. That window does look very familiar/similiar. I'll have to google the location, but that is my gut feeling.

[Mj]

Pretty close guess... google away... more info required !!!

[ATJ]

I hope you have the permission of the copyright owner to post the pictures here.

[bwhinnen]

I hope you have the permission of the copyright owner to post the pictures here.

I'm pretty sure they are his own images of a location looking at the gallery...

[ATJ]

Ah... my mistake.

[Reschsmooth]

Can I hazard a guess it is where the first photo was taken. That window does look very familiar/similiar. I'll have to google the location, but that is my gut feeling.

If the first photo is taken to be Daguerre's, I believe it was out of an attic window, or similar, across a roofline.

I have no idea so I will take a stab - it's the window at Lacock Abbey Henry Talbot photographed in 1835 on a Nikon D3?

[Mj]

Excellent stab... it is indeed the window at Lacock Abbey... where the oldest existing negative was taken. Not the first apparently, but the oldest in existence and taken by Henry Talbot in 1835. Not well signposted in the Abbey, you'd easily miss it if you didn't know it was there.

But I learn something everyday... I realise the hardware market is moving at lightning pace, but did he really use a Nikon D3... LOL.

And yes... these rather poor happy snaps are all my own work... apologies for making the place untidy...

[aim54x]

I was just about to say it is where the first picture shot on negative was taken, but I have been beaten to it.