Memory Pods, copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale An update on my progress to prepare for Photo Independent regarding my print portfolio(s) as previous discussed. First, the idea that I had to quickly prepare a print portfolio for Photo Independent was quickly stressing me out. Needing to quickly select the prints (yikes, which ones out of the... Continue Reading →
Exhibiting at Photo Independent
Memory Pods 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I have just been notified that I am accepted into Photo Independent at the end of this month. I was anticipating that I would be included in the Photobook Independent, but I was just notified that I can also have a print portfolio in addition to my photobooks. Yikes,... Continue Reading →
Internet infrastrature changes
Memory Pod #122 copyright Douglas Stockdale 2014 Internet infrastructure changes is a fancy way of saying that my current internet sucks. I need a new system, but like all things, there are some complications. So for a short time I am adding some duplication and running the old system while getting the new system on... Continue Reading →
Budding Memory Pods – next version
Untitled (Budding Memory Pods, March 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Earlier this week I posted this same image, but a version with a very distinct blue hue. After having this matted blue version on my work bench for a while, it dawned on me that this was a nice Singular Image, but it would not... Continue Reading →
Budding Memory Pods
Untitled (budding memory pods) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Earlier this week I had posted that I was finding myself being drawn back into my Memory Pods project. The photograph I posted was pretty close to a straight documentary image (which in retrospect is pretty boring at that). I was interested investigating the start of the... Continue Reading →
Budding Aloe Verde
Untitled (#120 Memory Pods) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Last year I found myself photographing of all things, plants. Not a genre that that I have been drawn to before, but while messing around with the macro focusing capabilities of my Samsung 4, I started to investigate some aloe vera plants that had gone to seed in... 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 →
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 →
Epson Workforce 7620
Untitled (#110 Memory Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale Over the weekend my HP four-in-one (4>1) business copier/printer-scanner-FAX machine sort of died or at least one of the two print heads did. After considering the cost of the replacement print head as compared to what a new equipment would cost (as well as I was not in... Continue Reading →
My RGB to Grayscale Conversion process
#28 No Memory (Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I had mentioned in an earlier post today that when I converted my color photographs (RGB) in Photoshop to a Grayscale (Black & White) image that I first had to flatten the layers of the color image. I received a question from a buddy as to why... Continue Reading →