I loved Julia Margaret Cameron's photos before I ever saw them. It was her story that got me. She was handed a camera when she was 48. But not a camera like you and I have. It was 1863. There were no iPhones. There was no film. There were only big glass plates, soaked in chemicals, loaded into a huge wooden box. Julia spent an entire month experimenting with glass plates, lenses, and developing chemicals before she got a single image that worked. Imagine that: a whole mont