Judy
Firstly I must apologise for 'King Napoleon'. King is me and Napoleon is
the name of my street. Napoleon III lived just down the road and Lous
XVIII lived over my back garden wall.That was before they got to be
Emperors and Kings.
I did not realise, when I first fot 'wired', that I was going to be stuck
with this address. I thought that we would be able to change it when
Compuserve changed from numbers. Now they have changed, I am stuck with
the result of ' puttting anything in the box because we can always change
it later' as Compuserve seem to be stuck in an inflexible time warp of when
'what the customer wants' was always wrong .
I am afraid that I genuinely cannot remember the article to which Mike
refers It may have been in a BJP Annual which somebody seems to have
walked off with. If I can find it I will send it. It certainly would not
have had a different recipe from the one in TKOL. I have many recipes for
the basic cyanotype recipe. But expressed in 'parts' they are nearly all
the same.
I remember Mike being sceptical that the range of tones and the clean
highlights I was getting on Fabriano Artistico could have been from the
standard recipe especially as the blue was, and is, a brilliant royal blue
rather than the prussian blue one usually expects from a cyanotype. But it
was the standard ferric ammonium citrate/potassium ferricyanide formula
mixed with tap water.
The 'magic' is just getting the right negative ( 1.4 ) and giving it the
right exposure ( until everything is dark blue or reversed), Then washing
in tap water.
Terry King