About the Image(s)

A few years ago, we were on a Saone River Cruice in the South of France. One of the Ports was Chalon-sur-Saone founded by the Gallic tribe of the Aedui and was known as Cabillonum during Roman times, with its history stretching back over two millennia. We spent the day there. Right after getting off the boat, there is a large square and I noticed a Statue with an inscription “Inventor of Photography� so I had to pay a little more attention about it. It happens to be Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process.
Niépce was born in Chalon-sur-Saône. Nicéphore was baptized Joseph but adopted the name Nicéphore, in honor of Saint Nicephorus the ninth-century Patriarch of Constantinople, while studying at the Oratorian college in Angers. In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene.
The image was created with a Nikon D300 (crop sensor) and the Nikkor zoom lens 18-200 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18 mm and these settings: ISO 320, f/10 and 1/640 sec. The image was PP in LightRoom and cropped. The second image (original) is the back of it.