San Onofre State Beach - California I do not usually turn an image around fast enough to qualify it as a photo of the day, but today this was an exception. My sister and brother in law wanted me to photograph them surfing this morning, so we headed over to San Onofre State Beach, which... Continue Reading →
Artistic Statement: Bad Trip – Sad Trip
City Intersection Fence (From the project: In Passing) I have been working on and off on the Artistic Statement for my project Bad Trip - Sad Trip (orignial working title) and I think that I have it finished for the moment. I still need to get permission from Simon Denison to quote him from his introduction to Quarry... Continue Reading →
ArtBiz101 – Marketing Overview
When dicussing Marketing today, I am looking at from the BIG PICTURE (nice pun, eh?), that is Marketing which includes Sales and Business Development and all things that gets the product into the customers hands, or better yet, on their walls. Basic Marketing Class can divide Marketing into its four parts, usually called the 4-P's: Product, Place, Promotion... Continue Reading →
First Sort
Still working on the first full sort of the images that I had made over the previous nine months for the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir (blue version). I had allowed these images to accomulate with out much editing as I was trying to finish the earlier series Bad Trip - Sad Trip. Hope to have... Continue Reading →
Easily fascinated
Evening Television (maybe in the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale I really like Martin's comment that perhaps I am better discussing the fact that I am easily fascinated, which I agree has a much more positive spin on life. I think that it is also related to Paul Lester's recent discussion about... Continue Reading →
Night Pool
I am now working on the color tonality of the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir. I want to bring in a slight bluish cast, but not as strong as effect (satuation) that I had decieded to use for the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip. So I will print up a couple of different images in different... Continue Reading →
Series diversions
While working on a series, I have also found myself being drawn to a particular image or photographing process and getting diverted from the subject at hand. I don't think that I have an attention problem, it is more like multi-tasking (my rationalization). Case in point was while I was in the early stages of the... Continue Reading →
The Freeway series
I-91 & I-15 Overpass First, the title of this blog will probably get the attention of the LA Dodgers and the (LA) Anaheim Angeles fans, so first my apology to them, this is not about baseball and the games these two crosstown rivals play against each other. What I am thinking about now is the... Continue Reading →
Convergence
Shanghai Underpass Peddlers Interesting when a number of unrelated things come together at bout the same time. I just found out that I will probably be heading back again for another two week project in China at the end of September. Which has me thinking about what it is that I want to work on in terms of... Continue Reading →
Georgete’s Question
Preparaing Caffine (from the series; Insomnia: Hotel Noir) Earlier today, I received the following comment and question from Georgete; I like your pictures a lot. Though I find landscape interesting, I miss the human element in your photos. Do you do it in purpose? If you do, why? This is a really big and I... Continue Reading →