Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Wesley"
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> I just wanted to contribute my own thoughts on these issues.
>  
> First, I don't think we are ever going to see any inkjet technology
that
> produces a print identical or even close to an air dried silver
fiber print.
> The problem is that with a silver print your pigment, the silver
particles,
> are suspended in a transparent gelatin. The layer is very thin but
it is
> still three dimensional. When light falls on the print some is
reflected
> directly from the pigment and some light passes through the gelatin
to
> reflect off the paper base coating and back through the pigment
structure to
> your eye.

Much snippage of wonderful post.....
  
> I am fortunate enough to have several of Tyler Boley's 17x22 prints.
To my
> mind and eye he produces some of the finest inkjet photographs I
have seen.
> Martin Wesley

Martin,

This is one of the most gracefully thoughtful posts that I have ever
read on the internet.  Thank you for sharing your worthwhile thoughts.

Ol' Don in Broken Arrow