For the past 12 years, Jeannette Palsa has specialized in fine art black and white portrait photography and has achieved impressive results using techniques first developed by the old masters of photography in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Her delicate pictorial style creates a mood and ambiance that has earned her a reputation for beautiful prints that seem to transcend time. Ms. Palsa is also gaining a reputation for her work in antique processes including platinum/palladium, albumen and ambrotypes made from the wet-collodion process.

Typically referred to as "Alternative" or "Non-Silver" processes, these are the photographic print making processes used from 1839 to 1910. During this period, large cameras were required to make negatives the same size as the final image. It's the era between the first Daguerreotypes of 1839 and the Silver Gelatin processes dominant since the late 19th Century.