Looking at one photograph at a time
Los Angeles, I-5 Freeway, March 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While driving up the I-5 Freeway into Los Angeles earlier this year, I was again finding myself in the bump-to-bumper traffic grind common for this part of Southern California. So similar to my bumper-to-bumper photographs in my recent drives to San Diego, I used the opportunity... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, San Diego, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I have enjoyed a short breather from my Middle Ground project, an investigation of "Fortress America", a sarcastic visual parody of the current political desire to build a HUGE wall to protect America from the desperadoes of the South. I touched on this project briefly during my... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Middle Ground) copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale Something that has not really captured my attention for some time is working with video. I am of that generation in which movies were made with super-8mm film, a real bear to edit (actually had to physically splice the film together) and trying to add sound was an... Continue Reading →
untitled (Middle Ground), copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale - While working on my current project, Middle Ground, I have thinking that I might want to consider using my Hasselblad and start shooting this with color 120 film in 2017. My biggest issue is that I do not have an equivalent Hasselblad lens for the digital gear I... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Middle Ground) copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale So a good friend tells me that since I am trying to make lemonade from lemons and my photographs are created when the car comes to a complete stand still in traffic, then really I have a "lemonade stand". sigh. I continue to think about the implications of the urban... Continue Reading →
Life in the slow lane, Southern California, copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale Yes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So this may or may not develop into a full project, but at the moment I am reacting to this current experience. I have an assignment in San Diego that requires me to frequently drive down... Continue Reading →
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