Let me introduce my fake Uncle Henry. Since I have very few family photos, I've adopted him for this week's lift. He looks just like the oddball Uncle I would have in my family tree. You know, the slightly wacky, but very fun relativethe one the others tell stories and then even more stories abouthe looks like he would dance on the table with the lampshade on his head. I found Uncle Henry in a photograph collection by the British photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Collection in the Harry Ransom Center in Austin.

Used papers and brushes from APP Wilderness. Transfer from NightBefore and frame from miniPaletteVibrant.

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For photography buffs: Cameron took up photography at the age of 48 after receiving a camera as a gift from her family. Over the next decade and a half, she created photographs ranging from strikingly large portraits that revealed the character of her sitters to genre studies that, heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite sensibilities of her artistic circle, were imitative of paintings or illustrative of scenes from literature. Her subjects for these treatments were friends, household staff, or the handsome folk who populated the Isle of Wight where she made her home. Albumen and silver gelatin prints.