Photos From England

We did a little less sightseeing, and more visiting, in England. Here are some of our favorite photographs from the second half of our trip.

This is at Lacock Abbey, which is part of the National Trust. It, along with the nearby village, has been featured in many popular British films and TV series, including Pride and Prejudice (the one with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle), Cranford, and three of the Harry Potter movies.

One of the owners of Lacock Abbey — after it was transformed into a country house — was William Henry Fox Talbot. He was one of the first people who learned to do photography the way I first was taught –by exposing a negative and printing a positive image from it.

There were several interesting things to note about the paintings at Lacock. In this one, the glove has too many fingers.

In this one, restorers were cleaning it up and found the people that had been clothed were actually nudes, so the clothing was removed.

This impressive flower is an Allium christophii, or star of persia.