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May my curiosity never be sated!

I'm a curious person in more ways than one!! I love the beach and the beautiful North Wales that I live in. Before becoming totally obsessed with Cyanotypes I spent a long time collecting sea glass and beach finds.I have a room of my own that I call my Museum of Oddities. A few years ago I was introduced to Cyanotyping and so began another journey of discovery,I love trying new things and experimenting which is how wet cyanotypes came to be for me. I also make Botanical prints with leaves on silk and paper. I'm a retired teacher so have the time now to do things that I want which is to keep learning and creating. That's a photo of the beach where I go to look for treasures- a bit of heaven on earth.
A bit about Cyanotypes in case you don't know what they are;
One of the first photographic processes 1842 sir John Herschel
Called Blueprints or sun prints they need UV to develop them
Anna Atkins my heroine who used this process in Victorian times to record ferns and sea weed amongst other things
They are always Prussian Blue unless bleached,toned or tweaked with other tthings like I do!
that's enough about me -I have paper to coat,it's going to be sunny tomorrow xxx Mary

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