Untitled (Tijeras Creek, RSM, January 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Winter in Southern California means rain and intermittent drizzles with some snow up in the local mountains. Weather-wise I think all the locals know that we are very spoiled as compared to many of our friends who live elsewhere. So when we get some rain it... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Avedon’s Best Photography Books for 2014 – and I am on it!
Pine Lake, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale As a book artist and photobook specialist, this is the time of year that I provide kudo's to all of the photographers, photobook designers, photobook publishers and the book artists who use photography as a part of their creative medium. This year I was asked by Manik Katyal, the... Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays for 2014!
Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2014 Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! P.S. Original photograph made in 2003 while skiing in Mammoth mountains and using a little 4mpx Canon G4, subsequently printed matte and hand colored, then rephotographed.
Flow of Light Brush the Shadow – Snow Shovel
Untitled (Snow Shovel, JinShan, January 2008) copyright Douglas Stockdale I recently posting about finding one of my landscape photographs at the top of both Bing Images and Google Images. After letting the shock of recognition wear off, I went back to both with the same search term, contemporary landscape photography, and started scrolling down further. Yikes, it... Continue Reading →
Contemporary Landscape Photography – JiaShan
You might image my surprise when I was poking around Bing images last week in-between events when I did a search on "Contemporary Landscape Photography" to see what might come up and the very first image was....mine! Yep, the photograph above, Winter Field, JiaShan, that I created while staying in the city of JiaShan, China... Continue Reading →
PhotoBook Independent – Prospectus
Indie Book Fair, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, December 2013 This coming May 1-3, 2015 there will be Photobook Independent for self-publishing photographers and small independent publishers to exhibit and sell their... Continue Reading →
Documentary Photography – Archeology
Untitled (Honda Pilot 33.641° N, 117.595° W October 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale While in college working on my undergraduate degree and as a result of comping some classes, I had a few extra credits to burn so I took an intro to anthropology class. Growing up I was fascinated with National Geographic and similar... Continue Reading →
Black & White Photographic Challenge – Day 5
Untitled (#89 Memory Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale This is my day 5 photograph as a result of being nominated by Jeff Alu to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge (aka BWC) on FaceBook. For more background on the BWC and my other BWC photographs, please check out my previous post, here. Today's... Continue Reading →
Samsung S5 camera – quick look
Untitled_S5 (Laguna Beach, CA October 2014) copyright Douglas Stockdale I just made an unintended switch up from the Samsung S4 to the Samsung S5 phone/camera system. My charging pin became so distorted and bent with the S4 that the phone was no longer taking a charge. After multiple tweaks by me and the Verizon... Continue Reading →
Black & White Photographic Challenge – Day 4
Untitled (#40 Memory Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale This is day 4 photograph as a result of being nominated by Jeff Alu to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge (aka BWC) on FaceBook. For more background on the BWC, see my previous post, here. This photograph is part of an on-going investigation of... Continue Reading →