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The Scrapbook
By nealejames | January 3, 2007
To compliment the portrait galleries on our new Breathe site, I’ve popped in a scrapbook section that features, well, other stuff. The image featured here was taken at Goodwood’s Sculpture Park, but at the time of writing, there’s also a photograph captured from the depths of a dark, dank coridoor in the disused Bodmin Gaol, a part of the prison that led to the condemned cell. The gaol dates back to 1777 and was the site of 55 hangings, the last being in 1909. The composition you see in the scrapbook was probably one of the most spooky experiences I have had. With one bare lightbulb several flights of steps above me, the shutter was left open for approximately 30 seconds. It remains the longest half minute I have spent in the dark. The moment that shutter closed, I folded the tripod and was out of the place in seconds. Check back into the gallery menu to find Cornwall’s least romantic tourist attraction. To be fair I wasn’t totally alone on that shoot. I took my wife Sam to visit there, when we were just dating - lovely old fashioned phrase. And she still married me.
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