Looking at one photograph at a time
Loss (Memory Pods) 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale It's the end of another year, so time to celebrate new friends, closer relationships, accomplishments and good times. So today I am looking back and in the next day or so, I will be looking ahead as to what I would like to accomplish for 2019. The life... Continue Reading →
Vail, Sandstone Creek, February 2018, copyright Douglas Stockdale It is the time of year to send out the Holiday cards, which for us is a Merry Christmas (greeting) card that also includes the best wishes for the New Year. So spoiler alert, our photo this year is not the one above. Rather this photograph was... Continue Reading →
Trabuco Flats, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale After recently making the changes to move my website operations to SquareSpace, I have been taking some time away from working (photographing) my Trabuco Flats project. Some needed reflection time. When I find myself unsure of how a project should look (revisualization), I think it is best to slow... Continue Reading →
Loss, Memory Pods, 2014 copyright Douglas Stockdale I will have a couple of framed photographs on exhibit at Fabrik Projects for the month of December as part of their "2018 Holiday Pop-up". This is a group show that will feature artwork that is reasonably priced for the holidays. My photographs are from my Memory Pod... Continue Reading →
Trabuco Flats, copyright 2018 Douglas Stockdale For those who might have followed the link to my website these past few days probably had a bit of a visual surprise when you were greeted with a brand new home page. So while I was taking some time to evaluate how I wanted to proceed with my Trabuco... Continue Reading →
Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale As many of you know, in addition to writing this photo-blog in which I discuss my photographic projects and other odds and ends, I am also the Editor of The PhotoBook Journal. I started The PhotoBook Journal (TPBJ) shortly after starting this blog back in... Continue Reading →
Buckwheat, Trabuco Flats 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale As an artist, sometimes a little stress can be a good thing once in a while, but constant stress can be a killer, in more ways than one. Recently I contributed a few photogaphs to Tara Wary's Too Tired for Sunshine project on Instagram. I had reviewed her... Continue Reading →
Untitled, Trabuco Flats, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While working on my project Trabuco Flats, I have been doing a lot of experimenting with how I process the image. Such as this landscape photograph above, I posted an earlier color version that I had really tweaked the contents. In my last post on this project, I... Continue Reading →
Mysterious Circumstance site 9, Trabuco Flats, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Another aspect of experimental/play with my Trabuco Flats project is creating a pure black and white version, that would of course be my noir (dark) version. Why not? Or maybe a slight color tint to a black & white? So this long weekend while attending... Continue Reading →
Untitled, Trabuco Flats 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale From time to time I am going to feature the evolving landscape of Trabuco Flats as I develop this book project. For most of my landscape photographs I pay close attention to any horizon lines as it seems that my photographs have a tendency to dip down just... Continue Reading →
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