Thank you kind folks for your comments.
Rob Vinnedge said: "Could you tell us a little more about Fotokemika Emaks and Arista Lith?"
Fotokemika Emaks is a graded paper made in Croatia. It is for sale in Europe as well as the United States. It's available in Grades 2-4 and it's an absolutely gorgeous paper in standard chemistry, and it's equally beautiful in lith chemistry, which I use. I try to support Fotokemika, as they also make the excellent Efke films, available in all kinds of sizes and kinds.
Arista Lith is an economical 2-part lith developer from Freestyle. Arista is their proprietary brand, and it's usually something re-branded with their name on it.
This particular print is on Grade 2 paper, mainly because it's what I have at the house currently. Grades 3 and 4 are probably better for lith printing, but this is good too. The papers are very very slow, but produce really nice tones with a huge expansive middle tone field.
Lith printing - I use 1+1+30 and about 10% old brown when I print with Arista Lith. I vary exposure and have recently started employing 'flashing' of the paper to control contrast. I also vary the temperature of the developer to bring out different colors. At about 75-80*F things start to get interesting. Everything warms up a little bit, and the development time gets shorter. I don't do anything radical in the darkroom, but I am mindful of how I print when I expose and develop the negatives. I have to confess I winged it a bit for these tree shots, because I had lost my light meter and was going off of one reading I got from a friend in the morning, that saw me through the day. But I try to get exactly box speed out of the film, and then I overdevelop the negatives a little bit to gain more contrast. Pyrocat-MC is compensating, and by overdeveloping I move the whole grayscale up the tonal curve of the film and it becomes a negative that is very easy to print. Pyrocat holds back the highlights enough that I don't usually have to worry about a lot of the highlights being packed together on the shoulder. It works great for me to do it that way, and it suits my printing style like a dream. It's a system that works very well for me.
I hope that helps in understanding how I work.
Thanks again guys, I appreciate your comments a lot. It's great feedback for me!