Looking at one photograph at a time
Reception from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale If a story needs a begining and an end, I think that the photograph Reception is where Hotel Noir starts. This is a nice lobby and reception area considering some of the places that I have been. When you drag in after midnight,... Continue Reading →
In Transit from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photograph by Douglas Stockdale I think that one of my biggest weaknesses with the development of a photographic "story" is that I don't know crap about writing a novel. Hey, that just might be a good thing, eh? So since I don't know the rules, then... Continue Reading →
Phone Conversation from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photography by Douglas Stockdale With the recent comment from Anita regarding my recently revised photograph from Insomnia, she stated that the photographs were less ambiguous and more narrative. Hmmm, did I really mean that to happen? A narrative quality would seem very relevant to a story, .e.g a... Continue Reading →
Insomnia - Hotel Noir, photographic series, Douglas Stockdale I have spent a lot of the day printing variations of my photographs for the series Insomnia. I am still experiementing with the blue undertone and a spot of a warm tone selectively applied to bring to mind a feeling. But that means printing a bunch of variations... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 This is a period for me that feels very transitional, that I am in an in-between state. I feel that I am about as far as I go with the available images for my roadside remembrance memorial series, although I still need to spend some time on the Artist Statement. I have... Continue Reading →
...I had sort of run out of steam photographing my Insomnia series during my long protracted stay in Northern LA County, so the time at home was refreshing in many ways. Now on this shorter duration in Napa, I found myself late last night wondering around the hotel grounds again with the camera on the tripod,... 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 →
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