Looking at one photograph at a time
untitled (Bluewater Shore, interior with binding) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale A little update on my Bluewater Shore artist book. After the really nice feedback from friends while at photo l.a. a couple of weeks ago, my plan was to proceed to the next generation of the maquette and have it ready for another round of... Continue Reading →
untitled (San Francisco Airport, CA, January 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. While looking at these two alternatives as potentials for my Instant Nomad series, the panoramic above is more in line with my intent. With a traditional format camera, I would have definitely wanted to step back to include the multifaceted perspective. Each window is... Continue Reading →
untitled (Industrial Yard, Corona, CA December 2013) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. Continuing to look at my panoramic photographs as a part of my Instant Nomad project. And continuing to be interested in how these particular kind of panoramatic formatted photographs look. I choose the cropping of the 10 x 8 format below to isolated and... Continue Reading →
Untitled (In n Out, Corona, CA December 2013) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale Oh where to begin? Firstly, this is another photograph that may or may not be in my Instant Nomad photobook but IS included in the project, if that makes sense. I have a ton of images I will consider as I edit, but... Continue Reading →
untitled (Lucy with Lauren) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. A contemporary & poignant moment. Maybe a case in which form follows function. As of late, I am more interested including individuals, whether friend, family or even strangers, in my photographs, thus my photographs are increasingly populated. When events unfold before me now, as they did during... Continue Reading →
Artist photobook maquette, Bluewater Shore, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. As I stated earlier this month, one of my short term objectives to finish my first maquette for this artist book was to obtain some feedback on book concept & design during photo l.a. this weekend. In fact, I did manage to obtain a bunch of... Continue Reading →
Untitled (La Huette, Switzerland, March 2005) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale Serendipitously after reading the recent release of Brassaii, Paris Nocturne, I went looking for some of my night-time photographs of Fiuggi that I had made in 2010 & 2011. Then I stumbled on an unfamiliar file folder of Europe from 2005. Yep, I am sometimes... Continue Reading →
untitled (Mark Thomas baptism) Copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale - Perhaps one of the nicer gifts I can provide my family is when I am the official photographer for a family event. That is when I am the one who brings the "big" camera to observe, participate and document the occasion. My nice & Mark Thomas's... Continue Reading →
10x10 American Photobooks exhibiton catalog, copyright 2013 10x10 Photobooks Today was a bit of virtual housekeeping day, as with all of the events that crashed into the end of the year, there were some things that I did not complete that I should have. Most of these tasks are related to my personal self promotion... Continue Reading →
untitled (working title: Bluewater Shore) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale At the beginning of the year I like to think about what I might accomplish for the coming year, with this being more of a bunch of loose-goosey planing objectives. Having worked in corporate for tooo many years, I know how rigid and constricting a plan... Continue Reading →
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