Nicolaus Copernicus's house

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer, priest and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentriccosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe

Camera make - Sony Ericsson - W850i

Exposure time - 1/4 second

F- Stop f/2.8
ISO Speed - 800
Original dimensions 640x480

Whilst i was in Poland the balcony of our apartment overlooked the house he grew up in (had i known that i would be doing a photography course I'd have spent more time getting a higher quality image as apposed to the move artistic interpretation of the building) Partially due to Copernicus's notoriety i felt it was important to include this image as people associate Copernicus with Poland and i want the viewer to feel that these pictures were taken in Poland to experience the Mise-en-scène of a polish wedding the actual building in the photograph is now a museum in the honour of the previous occupant, didn't get the opportunity to go in though, to busy celebrating. The very existence of this museum says something about the polish or at the very least the people of Torun, that they are proud of there achievements and hold on to the roots of there culture, elements of this attitude run through the city's veins.

Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Among his many responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation – yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world.