A Fox Talbot Mousetrap - a photo on Flickriver

            115 Pictures in 2015
#2. A Mouse
These shots show some of artifacts in the Fox Talbot Museum and in his home at Lacock Abbey. Fox Talbot was the "father" of photography. Talbot conceived and brought about a wholly new way of making pictures, perfected the optical and chemical aspects of photography, and learned to use the new medium to make complex images for the botanist, historian, traveler, and artist.
As his chemistry improved, Talbot returned to his original idea of photographic images made in a camera. During the "brilliant summer of 1835," he took full advantage of the unusually abundant sunshine and placed pieces of sensitized photogenic drawing paper in miniature cameras—"mouse traps," his wife called them—set around the grounds to record the silhouette of Lacock Abbey's animated roofline and trees. The pictures, Talbot wrote, "without great stretch of the imagination might be supposed to be the work of some Lilliputian artist."
 
Sony A850
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Wiltshire (show map)

Taken on: March 18, 2015

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115 Pictures in 2015

#2. A Mouse

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Camera: Sony DSLR-A850, f/1.0, 1/60 sec, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSLR-A850
Aperture:	f/1.0
Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 12.0 Windows
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