Looking at one photograph at a time
Randy, Nevada copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale - I'm about a third of the way through revising all of my In Passing (project originally titled Bad Trip - Sad Trip) images and as usually it is more complex than just deleting a layer in Photoshop. Sometimes there is a need to revaluate the entire tonal range of the... Continue Reading →
I-5 Triplets copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale I have a very nagging issue. With my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip I have added a new visual element to these images and one that I am not fully reconciled with. Each image has the foreground, if not the entire image, with a large degree of diffusion that... Continue Reading →
Cloud Burst, photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale I've been back thinking about publishing my images in a book again and remembered the reference to a relatively new blog, 5B4, which is an extensive review of photographic books. So after reviewing the book reviews on 5B4 again, I believe that I can further endose the 5B4 blog by adding to... Continue Reading →
No Longer Paradise A poetry reading is when the poet has the opportunity to engage an audience and put flesh on the bones of their work, to breath life into the written word and to provide a specific rhythm and feeling to the work. Until recently, the thought of discussing what I am trying to do... Continue Reading →
No image with this post today, as I am traveling for my day job... But nevertheless, I have been thinking about this whole issue of Limited Edition prints for photographers, versus Open Edition prints. Does one or the other really make sense? Having made my first Limited Edition print back in the 1980's, it's was not a good experience for... Continue Reading →
Arizona Monsoon Over the weekend while listening to a lot of music, I started to notice how many great bands have in their bio that they had been formed and started playing as "cover bands", meaning they played the songs that other bands recorded. Not much is said about who they covered, but probably some... Continue Reading →
For the Three Children While in the progress of writing my statement for my project Bad Trip - Sad Trip, a very sad event just occurred at my Freeway exit, when three very young children were accidently killed. I did not know the family but they lived a couple of minutes down the road in an... Continue Reading →
Hope From my many years of printing, the mantra for "straight" landscape photography, was that when (not if) you make some tonal or other adjustments to the image, they should not be noticed or seen. That the image had to look natural, and did not suggest manipulation. Thus the more skilled you were in the... Continue Reading →
Alex I continue with my artistic statment for Bad Trip Sad Trip and found myself re-reading the Editorial of the same title by Brooks Jensen from last February's issue of LensWork. I believe that what he discusses has held true for this project. I have chosen a specific image preparation and printing style for this body of... Continue Reading →
Tired Bones When I create something, be it a photographic image or an acrylic painting, I do appreciate the feedback from others that the artwork meant something to them, which I would call artistic validation. I think of it as a metaphor for making a connection with someone. Before, I made landscape photographs for... Continue Reading →
