Looking at one photograph at a time
Santa Suzanna, copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale ...always a tough decision, work on the new stuff that is fresh and exciting, or get the back-up, web-hosting and filing completed for the earlier images. Okay, so this time the winner is the images that I made a couple of days ago on the Santa Suzanna Pass Road... Continue Reading →
Meditation Annex, copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale ....While preparing my othe blog entry about ArtBiz101, I realize it would be good to have a "relevent" image. I also realized that my relevent image would be best from my stelth project number Three. So I guess it was time to come out of hiding with what will... Continue Reading →
Nocturnal Watch ..When I prepare to do a business strategy, which is the top of the order for getting a business going, I really start with my personal strategy. What ever we do, we need to be grounded in our personal basics; who I am, what I represent, what do I want to do, where do we want to... Continue Reading →
...just when I thought everyone (that is the few that read my blog) were tired of hearing me go on about my series, Bad Trip - Sad Trip, I find that I do have one reader, Paul Butzi (blog: Musing on Photography) who gave me a very nice review and a hint to carry on. On the... Continue Reading →
Worm Holes ...Well, I did get up at O-dark early and head out to the Santa Rosa Plateau this morning, and I had to drive through some very dense fog to get there. And I had some fun, this image being one of the more interesting ones. Now I have a small collection of these... Continue Reading →
...As a business person, I have always believed that networking was good. You can never can tell what can come from a contact and a friendly conversation. So I have carried networking over to my artistic development, that if a person expresses an interest in my images, I take the time to discuss what is I... Continue Reading →
....seems that one project series is the food for thought that can generate ideas for another series. So now I am now considering another series that resulted from a current series. Am I clear??? Okay, here is what has recently happened: First, I found that static landscape images are not working for me as much any more. ... Continue Reading →
Tired Bones ...Last night I attended the artist reception at the Irvine Fine Arts Center for our group exhibit, nice show and good turnout, including my local family & friends. I had a taped interviewed for the City of Irvine public tv, which was totally unexpected. Most of the awards went to very large color contempary landscape images, except Ellen, a... Continue Reading →
I had planned to get my Epson 4800 roll feed working and take a whack at making a very wide landscape print, but instead, I'm replacing a 15 year old garage door opener. ....best made plans of mice and men... Best regards, Doug Continuing on.... The first step is to remove the old garage door opener, but after... Continue Reading →
...I had recently commented on a blog about the business of art and it was written as a satire. After talking to a bunch of other artist, I may have not been too far off the mark. Artist learn to create art, not how to market and sell it. After a couple of requests, I... Continue Reading →
