Not much to write about at the moment. I am in the middle of installing new flooring in the studio, in preperation for the larger format printer that I have been considering. And as one thing leads to another, this little wood flooring project is being immediately followed up with carpets for the house, because now... Continue Reading →
Blurb – BookSmart 2.0 & 12×12″
I received a heads-up from the Blurb PR folks that they were going to announce a new update on their free book-making software BookSmart. From the press release, it appears to have some of the attributes of InDesign, with added customization capabilities. Wish I could say more, but the Blurb site is a bit slow in running for the... Continue Reading →
Wikipedia link
Last week after deciding to stop posting on Photo Exhibit and to start deleting off some of my lamer early posts (okay, I think that they did get better latter on when I became a little more confident with what I wanted to write), I had hesitated at the deleting the gallery announcement about (John) Luke Smalley.... Continue Reading →
Photo Exhibit & The Photo Book
Last year was interesting in that I found myself a little overwhelmed with maintaining my web-journals and other photo-groups and then pulled back. Then one thing led to another. I then jumped back into the thick of things by startinga blog for our monthly photo group called The Photo Exchange. And I realized that I needed to get to more photographic... Continue Reading →
Designing Full Bleed PhotoBook pages
Yesterday, I had provided a very brief overview about my earlier bias against full bleed photographs in a photobook and some reasons why my opinion about full bleed photographs have now changed. I am actively designing my photobooks with the intent of using full bleed photographs. As Martin pointed out in his comment yesterday, after I decide to use... Continue Reading →
Full Bleed Photobook pages
Away Station from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograpy copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the interesting internal changes that have arisen from my recent book reviews is my complete reversal on the use of full bleed photographs being in photobooks. Up till last year, I have realized that I was a bit of a purist (also read... Continue Reading →
Keeping a broad historical perspective
Cover photograph, Oak Tree in Winter, 1842 - 1843, photograph copyright of the William Henry Fox Talbot Estate Well again, I succumbed to temptation at the book store. This time it was a retrospective of the developmental and creative work of one of the early photographic pioneers, William Henry Fox Talbot, published by Phaidon last year.... Continue Reading →
WordPress spell-checker not up to par
Just a small whine today. After publishing my review of Zoe Strauss's book America on The Photo Book, I sent Zoe a follow up email letting her know that it was published and if there were any factual changes needed. To my surprise, besides liking the review, she indicated that there were some spelling errors in... Continue Reading →
Triptych photographs
California Aqueduct, Pearblossom Highway, CA photograph copyright of Ann Mitchell Ann just sent me the announcement about her pending exhibit in San Pedro for a new body of work called American Triptychs. Which by the way, I enjoy a lot. But viewing her triptych's created my own emotional response regarding my earlier attempts at creating a project using triptych's, my Chinese... Continue Reading →
Insomnia – Ten images still to go
Expressway Room from the project Insomnia; Hotel Noir photograph copyright 2009 Douglas Stockdale Seems like I figure out one image for my project Insomnia and I end up needing to change two others. But I am slowly making some headway and almost down to single digits for the remaining images. And in the process, two images that I... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 