Youssef Ismail

Floris, Thanks.  It has given me some ideas to try out with film on LF in the near future.

Very informative Richard, Thanks!

Nice article Marc. The paragraph immediately after your self portrait, beginning with "Over the course of the next two days" repeats itself. Solitude is a difficult station to be in but you seem to handle it well.

It is always a sad and sobering time when someone passes. It is also more so when it is an individual who had so much to offer humanity. His work will live on and be an inspiration to others. My deep and heartfelt condolences to the family. My aunt struggled with ASL and eventually passed because of it as well. I know what you all must have gone through. Take care.

Interesting Guy. But I have to agree with Tony. Photoshop is the big deal changer. I was never happy with the color prints I made early on. It was only after Photoshop and the ability to print digitally that allowed my color prints to "speak" of what I wanted to show. The film never really confined what I photographed, although it was limited in certain ways, Photoshop allowed me to "fix" what film messed up - most of the time.

Well said Guy. If my initial intent behind my work was to move people's hearts with it does that make me an artist even though the photos produced are the cookie-cutter yet-agains? Personally I never chased after what others photographed, but rather what moved me and hoped it would move others. My best images have no indication of where they were taken or recognizable land marks. Thanks for the insights and making me think about this.