The photographic process has much magic and alchemical transformation, with light printing images on photosensitive materials.
I've returned to the beginnings of photography, where someone probably printed a first image by mere chance, possibly forgetting an object on a tree leaf. We now know that leaves possess chlorophyll and are highly photosensitive, as trees obtain their energy from light, synthesizing chlorophyll and CO2.
More than technique, these seem like fortuitous discoveries. Each leaf achieves a different result, depending on the amount of light, the heat present that day, and each leaf that dies in the printing experiments.
Larger size means less control. Different leaf species yield different results. Each printed leaf is a universe of possibilities.
