Looking at one photograph at a time
Sea Kelp & Sea Stacks, Bandon, Oregon, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale with exhibition photo by Kathleen Koopman, copyright 2023 A little pat on my back shout-out for gardening a Honorable Mention for one of my two cyanotype seascapes that are on exhibition at the Light Art Space exhibition, titled H2O: Shifting Currents that I posted... Continue Reading →
Awareness (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Cool! Today is World Cyanotype Day (last Saturday of September, each year), an alternative photographic process discovered in 1843 by Sir John Herschel that utilizes the sun's UV bandwidth to make (blue) prints. Hard to believe I stated experimenting with the cyanotype printing process just one year... Continue Reading →
. This is one of those Good News: Interesting News combinations, which will also be at least a two part series. The Good News is that some of my cyanotypes from my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist (Entanglements) portfolio will be featured in the Fall 2023 issue of The Hand magazine. Very cool and another validation... Continue Reading →
. Update: This book workshop has been delayed until 2024! Revised dates: The new dates are January 20, 21 and then 27, 28th 2024, from 10 AM – 1 PM, Eastern Standard Time (EST). I am excited to announce that I will be leading another virtual book workshop, Developing a Creative Photo Book, with SouthEast... Continue Reading →
Sea Kelp & Sea Stacks, Bandon, Oregon, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale Bandon Harbor, Low Tide, Bandon, Oregon, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale Delightful news! Two of my seascape cyanotypes were accepted into Light Art Space's exhibition "H2O: Shifting Currents" which was juried by Kristen Martinicic. Backstory: we were in Bandon Oregon last fall for my son's... Continue Reading →
Gatekeeper (Entanglement series) 2018/2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - A wonderful start for the week when I was reading a Facebook shout out by a friend of mine, who listed me in her post about her making the first cut of the top 200 Finalist for this years Critical Mass. hmmmmm?? So intrigued, I check it... Continue Reading →
Untitled (The Last Iceberg series #1430) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - This is another update on my earlier update on The Last Iceberg series. When I first started on the larger project, Anthropogenic Crisis, in 2021 that eventually spun off The Last Iceberg series, which I had pre visualized in color. Since then, I have... Continue Reading →
Santa Fe Nicho, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - I am honored that my cyanotype print titled Santa Fe Nicho was selected by guest juror, Diana Bloomfield (Raleigh, NC) for Light Art Space (Silver City, NM) gallery exhibition The Still(ed) Life: Celebrating Handmade Photographic Art, which is featuring Alternative Photographic Processes. I am equally excited that this is my... Continue Reading →
(s)Light of Hand 2023 exhibition 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I was in very good company for the (s)Light of Hand exhibition at The Photographers Eye gallery, which the one month exhibition opened Saturday evening. My print Wo Zhi Kan Kan (center, white frame) was flanked by Dennis Segers's two Platinum Palladium landscapes to the... Continue Reading →
Camouflage #2, (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Cyanotype print from digital negative, the second titled Camouflage from this same series. Photographed this site last month with a 50mm Distagon on my Hasselblad using expired Ektar 100 (2019) 120 film on a decommissioned WWII/Korean War practice Bombing Range in Southern California. As a note, I... Continue Reading →
