Figure 1.-- Etheldreda Janet Laing was an Enlisgh photographer who immeditely took up color photography when the earliest commercial system became abailable--Autochrome. any of her photigraphs ofare of her two daughters, Janet and Iris, outdoors in her sunny garden. Here is an ndoor print and without the brught sunshine the colors did not come out. Oriental ciostuming was popular at the time.

Etheldreda Janet Laing was an English photographer who is especially noted for her embrace of the French Autochrome, the early color process. She took her first Autochrom photograph in 1908, shortly after the process appeared (1904). Etheldreda was born in Ely (1872). she was was the daughter of Richard Winkfield, head of the King's School. Etheldreda After studying drawing at Cambridge. Sghe married the barrister Charles Miskin Laing as a young woman and the couple lived in Oxford (1895). They wound up at Bury Knowle House in Headington, an Oxford neighborhood. Her husband gave here the econmic freedom to pursue her interests. The same interest in deawing attracted her to photography. She installed her own darkroom (late-1890s). With the adventb of Autochrome, the first color process usable by most photographers. Laing showed an immediate interest in the Autochrome color process when the plates first became commercially available (1907). She took many photographs of her daughters (Janet and Iris), mostly in the family garden. As a result of phtographing her daughters and her great care with compositions, and their lovely garden. The color values here are poor because it was taken indoors. The images taken outdoors in their garden and home show very vivid colors.

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