Looking at one photograph at a time
Hawk, San Clemente, December* 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Although I am interested in urban landscape, I don't usually include the wildlife in my photographs. Nevertheless, last December while golfing with my son-in-law and grandson, this hawk just seemed to want it's portrait taken. It landed on this adjacent tree and after one photograph, I walked... Continue Reading →
Crystal Cove State Park, December* 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale On Facebook, I was again tagged for a seven day Black & White Challenge, this time by the German based photographer Gabriele Harhoff. Where as previously last November I created some new images for this Challenge, this time I will be utilizing some black & white... Continue Reading →
Rain Puddle, Rancho Santa Margarita, January* 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Puddle reflections, like window reflections, can be fascinating. The viewer is both looking in as well as looking beyond, a bit of found surrealism. With window reflections, the overlaying image is usually behind the photographer, thus a interesting potential metaphor about the "past". In this... Continue Reading →
Signage, Arroyo Trabuco trail, January* 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While walking the Arroyo Trabuco trail I have noticed a number of really deteriorated signs with a wire mesh that appeared to have covered the missing signage. All of these were in really bad condition, thus I could only speculate what was there. This seemed to provide... Continue Reading →
UXO sign, Plano Trabuco Target Area, January 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While on one of my morning walks, I came across a posted sign for UXO that I had not realized was on the Arroyo Trabuco trail. A nice bit of serendipity as photographing this walking project reminded me of another photo project; my Gardening for... Continue Reading →
Beach walk, Crystal Cove State Park beach, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I will have to admit that one of the great things about living in Southern California is that you are usually not that far from the Pacific Ocean beach and living in south Orange County, the beach is a 15 to 20 minute... Continue Reading →
Crystal Cove, morning December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier I expanded on how my morning walk has ventured into the "wild side" as I am now going off-road onto the neighboring nature trails (okay, maybe this photograph above from walking on the ocean beach is not really the "wild side", so read the earlier posts).... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Rough Edit, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While continuing to document my morning walks as a potential project, back in the studio I am developing my Middle Ground book project. At the end of last year I announced that this project is my MoPLA submission. So over the holidays I was working on the rough... Continue Reading →
I got the blues Yeah, I got them blues I got them Hasselblad jamnation blues Ohhhh yeah, I do, I got them jamnation blues... Yesterday I received the bad news on the cost of fixing my 500 C/M body that was all jammed up as I earlier reported. After California taxes this will probably cost... Continue Reading →
Tijeras Creek Trail, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Earlier I had discussed how my morning walks have taken a bit of detour off into the "wild" as a trade-in for the neighborhood sidewalks and my usual route for the past many years. After a number of experiment/play photographs documenting my walks with my mobile... Continue Reading →
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