Looking at one photograph at a time
Compass Dance, OCMA June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend I was the event photographer again for the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) Family Day held in conjunction with their latest exhibition. Although my intent was to capture the interaction of the attendees with the exhibition, family activities and school concerts, I was able... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore, self-published 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago I was preparing to make another series of bookstore submissions for Bluewater Shore, my limited edition artist book. In looking at my "press photos" for this book, I realized that I needed to have a set of photographs showing the book's cover, with... Continue Reading →
Life Guard Station #13, May 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very honored to be featured in YourDailyPhotograph today with a special limited time offer (today!) for the photographic print of Life Guard Station #13, May 2017. Archival pigment print: 15" x 15" on 17" x 22" Hahnemuhle matte. This is part of a series of... Continue Reading →
San Clemente Beach May 2016, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale This was not a great weekend. Earlier in week I was not feeling great, but Thursday evening and Friday morning I seemed to be over what-ever-it-was. But what-ever-it-was came back to bite me Friday afternoon and only this morning did it seem I was getting on the... Continue Reading →
Photo Book Photography; Norman strobe set-up, April 2017 Copyright Douglas Stockdale In conjunction with The PhotoBook Journal, I received a donation of a very used Normal Strobe Lighting kit to improve my process of photographing book covers and interiors. The donation was made by Dual Graphics, the Brea, CA book printer who printed my recent... Continue Reading →
Life Guard Station #14, San Clemente, CA, May 2017, copyright Douglas Stockdale The same day this month that I captured the gradations beach photo on San Clemente beach that I discussed here, I also photographed the adjacent Life Guard Station #14. In fact I believe that the earlier beach photograph was captured in front of... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles, I-5 Freeway, March 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While driving up the I-5 Freeway into Los Angeles earlier this year, I was again finding myself in the bump-to-bumper traffic grind common for this part of Southern California. So similar to my bumper-to-bumper photographs in my recent drives to San Diego, I used the opportunity... Continue Reading →
San Clemente Beach, May 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the delightful aspects of picking Ella up at the San Clemente train station is that the station is directly adjacent to the Pacific ocean. We are talking about only a few yards. Thus I normally volunteer to pick her up and then I leave early... Continue Reading →
Canon 5D body copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Maybe I might not be the last person to find this out, but I now know that Canon Service is no longer providing support, either maintenance, repair or replacement parts, for the original 5D body. I found this out last week when I drove over to Costa Mesa... Continue Reading →
Santa Ana, CA, May 13 copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale This is not meant in any means to be a technical review of the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens that I just purchased, but in the immortal words of the late Garry Winogrand, I want to see what this looks like. This is essentially the first exposure... Continue Reading →
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