Dear Sir William Henry Fox Talbot,
I would just like to start off by saying thank you—thank you
so, so much for allowing my fellow classmates and I to tour your magnificent
home and get a feel for the rich history that is so deeply embedded in its
walls. Chills began to consume every inch of me as I approached the sacred
oriel window where you snapped the earliest known photographic negative to
date. There was such a holiness—a sacredness, if you will—that came from not
only standing in front of that historic window, but actually being able to
capture as many angles of it as I could from my perspective lens, 177 years after you did. Learning about
history from a book or word of mouth is one thing, but experiencing history for oneself is something almost ineffable.
This most likely once-in-a-lifetime experience at Lacock Abbey gave me so much
pride in my interests and contributions to the world of photography, and I can
only dream to leave my own historic mark on the world through my art before I
die.
Sincerely,
Breanna Demont
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