Looking at one photograph at a time
Arizona Monsoon Over the weekend while listening to a lot of music, I started to notice how many great bands have in their bio that they had been formed and started playing as "cover bands", meaning they played the songs that other bands recorded. Not much is said about who they covered, but probably some... Continue Reading →
For the Three Children While in the progress of writing my statement for my project Bad Trip - Sad Trip, a very sad event just occurred at my Freeway exit, when three very young children were accidently killed. I did not know the family but they lived a couple of minutes down the road in an... Continue Reading →
Hope From my many years of printing, the mantra for "straight" landscape photography, was that when (not if) you make some tonal or other adjustments to the image, they should not be noticed or seen. That the image had to look natural, and did not suggest manipulation. Thus the more skilled you were in the... Continue Reading →
Fading Memories The working title to my project is "Bad Trip - Sad Trip", a project title that changes a little each day. While I was in Shanghai last month, I was trying to have a "chop" or stamp made for this project title. It does not translate easily, and as close as we could get... Continue Reading →
NYCity Ground Zero There seems to be some internet Angst with a few reviews (example see blog: The Online Photographer) of the Lecia M8 and comparison with the Canon Rebel XTi. For the record, I have a Canon Rebel XTi and a "Lecia", more about that in a moment. As to my background for this review, I look at... Continue Reading →
Randy Looking back, I have always been thinking in terms of groups of photograhs, mostly thematic landscape groups. Occasionally I will fnd that I am interested in a particluar group of images that have a stronger unifying "glue" and then I begin to group these together as a series. Then I read the artilce (seems like most have)... Continue Reading →
Monrovia Canyon, Spring Okay, to my point that I was trying to make yesterday (I think that folks at WordPress must have thought that I needed an extra day to reflect on this subject). I do title or name my photographic images. There has been some recent discussions as to whether naming or titling should be needed, required... Continue Reading →
Seasonal Runoff, Placerita Canyon, California, 2006 Well, I had hoped to write more about this, but due to the complexities of this Blog site, WordPress, it appears that I will be lucky if this gets posted on the blog, so if you see it, let me know. Then someone can tell me... Continue Reading →
Frosty morning, LaHuette, Switzerland 2005 copyright Douglas Stockdale I have realized that most of my images probably can be best be characterized as existing a singular image, that each one was individually created and stands on its own merits. Last year I started working more on photographic projects, a series of images that when viewed within a defined group have a... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 