Difficult Photo Processes

Billie S. Mercer (102165.2342@compuserve.com)
Sun, 08 Feb 1998 09:29:26 -0500

<<<<<The Alt Photo community would be far better served by encouraging
young
photographers to experiment in the alternative processes rather than by
scaring them off, methinks.

This is true. Between being told how difficult it was to get a good print
and how dangerous the chemistry was, I suppressed my desire to do Alt
Process work for several years.

You know the regular photographic process isn't easy either. I could make
a silver gelatin print immediately after I was show how to do it BUT it was
a LONG time before I could make a truly beautiful, luminous print.....and I
am still learning how to make it better. But you have to start somewhere.

Billie