specialist secrets

untitled (cruciform), 16"  x 20", vandyke brown print, 2012

Specialist secrets is a term I came across in reading a review of Thomas Struth's exhibition in Portugal (or was the review referring to a showing in Dusseldorf?). Is a term that stuck in my mind and I want to title a piece after it or a create a piece specifically for it. After a couple of days of sun and a suddenly cooperative NuArc plateburner,  I have a couple of new pieces to push out into the world.  Now the winter rain is back and I am finding myself with a weak but noticeable bout of season affective disorder (self diagnosis). 

What are the secrets of this specialist? I am having better luck working without toning the vandyke brown prints (at least for the moment). It is easier working with the NuArc 261K than it is with natural sunlight for exposing the kallitypes. It is more romantic to work with sunlight (think Fox Talbot's Reading Establishment). The Forces of Nature images can be broken down into leaves, fruit, pollen, bark and roots. The bulk of these images are leaves followed by fruiting bodies. 

and one more secret: I want to make anthotypes with very yellow tumeric.