Looking at one photograph at a time
Douglas Stockdale & framed "America" 2018 copyright Gerhard Clausing Last Friday had a wonderful evening at LACP for the Faculty group exhibition opening reception. Top line; it was nice to see my Middle Ground print on the wall, a continuing validation of this project. Second it was really enjoyable to see some friends in that... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods, April 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While I am going slightly crazy preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for the Middle Ground project, the weather has warmed and my aloa vera are budding. It is Memory Pods season again! This is my fourth season of working on the Memory Pods project at my studio.... Continue Reading →
detail (100% magnification), Canon 24-105mm L f/4 lens, at 105mm at f/9 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last Friday I had found myself in the local Canon Service shop in Costa Mesa regarding some issues with the bottom left corner of my images and was informed that I need the flange back repaired for my 5D Mark... Continue Reading →
America (Middle Ground - En Medio Tierra), copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am very honored that my photograph “America” from my forthcoming self-published artist photobook Middle Ground will be featured in LACP’s First Annual “Faculty, Member and Alumni (FMA)” Exhibition at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. This is the first exhibition of my photographs... Continue Reading →
Bottom left corner detail 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I recently left my Canon 5D Mark 3 body at the Canon Service center in Costa Mesa for repair of the "flange back", which the camera technicians stated was the reason for my latest series of crappy-corner images. Latest, in as this is the same image issue... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend during my LACP mini-seminar on photo book development using my book-dummy #4 for the Middle Ground project, this book design really gelled for me. It was now time to move forward to the next phase; book printing. Fortunately Craig Evans, my printer representative for Dual... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale, Palos Verdes Art Center, 2018, photograph by Karen Schuenemann I am very honored and excited to announce that I am part of the inaugural LACP (Los Angeles Center of Photography) Mentor-ship program that was just formally launched by this LA organization. This builds on my recent LACP experience as a workshop leader for my... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale, Photo Book presentation, all photos by Karen Schuenemann I think that my Photo Book as Art presentation that I had announced earlier was a pretty good success judging by the interaction, questions and follow-on inquires about the various aspects of book design and publishing. This artist talk was for the Photography and Digital... Continue Reading →
San Diego Port of Entry (Middle Ground) 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While thinking that since I have essentially completed my political satire about the #stablegenius's "da wall" and ready to get 'er launched as I posted earlier this week, I find my self distracted by another of the #stablegenius attempts to divert everyone's attention away... Continue Reading →
Marker #34 (Middle Ground) 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale For the next couple of months, maybe more, I will be exclusively using this site as the platform to update my Middle Ground project status and to get this launched. The photography is complete, the project concept is fully developed, the photobook design is getting closer to... Continue Reading →
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