Since my goal is to use Blurb as the foundation to carry my SoFoBoMo project (yes, starting May 1 for me, I get to maximize the 31 days, which I may need each and ever one), I became very diligent on trying to finish my first Blurb book, In Passing. So how is that going,... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo – Editioned Book
I have continued to muddle on about what to do with the SoFoBoMo project and the resulting book. I think that I have come up with a possible solution. One of the things that Laurie Frank had said at the Palm Springs Photo Festival last night was that many of the artists in her gallery... Continue Reading →
1st year anniversary – this blog
Somewhere in Transit, Copyright Douglas Stockdale With not a lot to write about at the moment, I thought today would be a good time to make a quick announcement about having survived my first year of this blog. Like my projects, writing and publishing my articles has not turned out as I had expected and seems to have... Continue Reading →
Photographic Projects – Part II
Yesterday, in writing about photography projects, I develed more into why do a photographic project. I think a lot of folks know a good reason to do a project, but then comes WHICH project? I think that this is the part that gets a little messy in as there is no easy or correct answer.... Continue Reading →
Photography Projects
In Passing (I Love You), hand-colored cyanotype, copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale - One question that seems to come up often with regard to my photography; how do you come up with your photography projects? This was a frequent question during the development of my published project In Passing (working title Bad Trip - Sad Trip),... Continue Reading →
Color Management – Web
For this post, I am guessing that many of you are not going to need to read it. And it is one of those good news - bad news things, at least for me. So to save some of your some trouble, the bottom line is that if you want to get your images looking... Continue Reading →
In Passing – project title change
In Passing series copyright Douglas Stockdale - While finishing the artist proof for my next Edition Folio and thinking about a Blurb book for the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, I am now rethinking the title for the series. When the series was published in LensWork magazine, they provided this body of work with the... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo – Blurb output
At the moment, I am planning to use Blurb, the Print on Demand (POD) self-publishing book company, as my book out put for my 2008 SoFoBoMo project. And I just read Gordon McGregor's recent Blurb trial run experiment that I think is going to help me be successful: think Color Management. Like Gordon, I... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo in May
For those keeping track, you may have noticed that I have not been writing about my SoFoBoMo experiences. That's because I don't have any yet! I'm part of that procrasting group that will be starting on May 1st. I have my calendar blocked out for an intensive 5 day shoot and after which I wil... Continue Reading →
Urban Landscape and Place
While reading Gohlke's writings about Landscape and Place, I recalled that I had another book in my stacks also titled Place, by Aaron Siskind. Siskind's book was published by Light Gallery in 1976 and had his photographs mostly from the early 1970's, but the Introduction by Thomas Hess was very interesting regarding the concepts of Landscape... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 