Day Fourteen - A closing act and a nice exhibition to boot

Slow day, mostly spent walking around Hereford after viewing the Hereford Photography Festival. It's an annual event and the largest in the country. The images we saw at the Courtyard venue were quite nice. I especially was moved by and drawn into the "Welcome to the Hotel Africa" series by Simon Norfolk. It was big, beautiful, and disturbing. I spent many minutes looking at the details and thinking about the text Simon had provided.


Hereford is an old city and contains a lot of excellent examples of its heritage, all mixed together with the new shops and architecture into a large modern city.


We returned home to pack and have a final dinner in the Wye Valley before heading off tomorrow. In a purely tourist moment we decided to commemorate the trip, as tourists before, with a picture. Like this stereo card of the Wye, we wanted it to be something special. So, here for the first time in photographic history is a digital, stereo, Claude Glass, self-portrait, executed in two countries simultaneously.

So Janet and I are off to London and Bradford respectfully; she's headed back to Michigan and I'm headed for a look at the Royal Photographic Society archive at the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television.