From: Lukas Werth (lukas.werth@rz.hu-berlin.de)
Date: 09/14/01-04:35:33 AM Z
A word of consolation from me also: do not get into "runaway" arguments
which only lead to polarisation (I hope you know what I mean: a situation
where always the next answer leads to ever more excitement).
May I remind you that such a polarisation - albeit a much more horrible one
- is what must have been the aim of the terrorists: to create a situation
in which anger consumes every other feeling, and in the last resort leads
to the utter disregard for human lives. Do not let this happen. I am
foremostly stunned by the sheer number of dead people, by all those
truncated lives, those fates. We heard here in Germany the voice of a woman
who spoke the last goodbye to her husband over phone from the WTC on the
recorder at her home.
I feel it is this human quality of the whole tragedy we must not loose
sight of.
And here a question just for getting going again, to re-establish
communication: I have toned a further salt print in selenium toner,
dilution 1:200. Colour changed nearly instantly, bleach was much less, can
be dealt with, so it was a success, sort of. But the result, though an
interesting brown colour unobtainable with gold, was clearly inferior to
it: no good blacks! The darkest tones, even on the rim outside the image
area, are of a brown which could do very well with some deepening.
Is this consistent with the observations of others concerning selenium
toning saltprints? Is there a way to get around this?
Lukas
At 14:38 13.09.01 +0000, you wrote:
>I agree with Dave: Political discussions are offtopic here at any time,
>and especially unhelpful now when we are all so emotionally fragile.
>
>I was determined to believe that we hadn't heard from Judy because she
>wasn't able to get online for some reason, and I'm most relieved and
>happy to know that was the case. We can be a quarrelsome lot at times,
>but in a crisis we forget our differences and worry about each other as
>if we were family, which in a way I guess we are.
>
>Katharine Thayer
>
>
>FotoDave@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Let us not argue or debate in difficult moment like this.
>>
>> While I missed it on TV, I felt so touched and moved when I heard that the
>> Buckingham Palace played the national anthem of the USA today. Thank you!
>>
>> Dave S
>
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