One aspect of having a subscription to PhotoShop with Adobe is sometimes some updates just suddenly occur, such as today when I opened the above image in Bridge; there it was and now I was using Raw 13.1 (which I recall being stated as a 2020 version). A pop-up screen also alerted me to the... Continue Reading →
Quantum Elements abstractions – Experiment/Play
LSTa091959-06 copyright 2020 Douglas Stockdale As I have stated in the past, one of my artistic options is to use Experiment/Play to try out some wild-ass stuff. This methodology always seems to lead to interesting ideas and usually gets me into some kind of creative trouble, nevertheless what I consider 'good' trouble. With my Quantum... Continue Reading →
Roadside Remembrance Memorial – Texas
I have been revisiting my earlier photographs for my Roadside Remembrance series and how these two photographs of a site outside of San Antonio Texas impacted my artistic direction on this series. I was heading to a place that I found on the internet that had the potential of some rapid running water, when I... Continue Reading →
Photographer’s Eye exhibition – Memory Pods on Hahnemuehle Metallic
Back in July when I first wrote about experimenting with the Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic I had closed my article with a question as to whether to frame these photographs under glazing, whether it is museum glass or acrylic. My concern is with the potential loss of luminosity under a layer of glazing. My final... Continue Reading →
Portfolio Reviewer – 2021 LACP Exposure Weekend
I am very honored to join Los Angeles Center of Photography's (LACP) 2021 Exposure Weekend that will occur January 21 - 24th, 2021. Like many such art events during this pandemic, this will a series of virtual (Zoom) portfolio reviews. This will be my fifth year participating in this event and I have had an... Continue Reading →
Roadside Memorial – Halloween
While working on my roadside remembrance series, this was a memorial I came across in Victorville CA located on a I-15 frontage road at an intersection into a small neighborhood. I had photographed this in mid-October and the sustaining memorial had been prepared for the Halloween season. From what I heard, the mother of Mark,... Continue Reading →
Photographer’s Eye – Exhibition opening for Ken Rosenthal & Robert Treat
Yesterday was an interesting day, essentially my first exhibition opening and group outing since last March when the pandemic shelter-in-place began. (Yes, if we had not been lied to by the WH Administration, we would probably started the shelter-in-place much sooner). Never-the-less, there were a couple of events hosted by The Photographer's Eye gallery during... Continue Reading →
Abstract – The Alternative Exhibition
Ryuten Paul Rosenblum - Japan Temple Wall – Nanzenji The Southeast Center for Photography (SEC4P) had a recent call for Abstract (photography), juried by Blue Mitchell. The exhibition call was looking for non-representational imagery from found objects in nature, man-made or figurative works and images that do not attempt to represent external reality, but seek to achieve its... Continue Reading →
Abstraction – art musings
I am not sure where I recall reading that Abstraction in art is relative to the eyes of the beholder. Or maybe that's just my rendition on the subject. Last month I wrote about my current 'Cover-19' series inspired by Quantum Mechanics and particle physics that explains some of the things we see if we... Continue Reading →
Quantum Elements – Time-Refractory Abstractions
I think that I have known this for some time; I seem to work a little bit better when working on a dead line, especially when the due date is rapidly approaching. Case in point, an open call for submissions for 'Abstract Photography', with a deadline of Oct 4th. Thus the my new COVID-19 series... Continue Reading →