Looking at one photograph at a time
Untitled from the project Insomnia: Hotel Noircopyright of Douglas Stockdale I have not discussed that much about writing and publishing my book reviews over on The Photo Book. Probably because of how those reviews and the blog in particular is evolving. And for me, the whole thing is evolving in an unplanned but excellent ways. By background, I... Continue Reading →
Open Ended - from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir copyright 2009 Douglas Stockdale One of the outcomes of gaining clarity of a project or series, is that all of a sudden, there are seeming less decisions to be made. As to what I need to do just seems so obvious. I am also realizing that with a cinematic story, in... Continue Reading →
I have been sitting on the fence as to self-publish or make submissions to the established publishers for my project, Insomnia. There are some pros and cons for each alternative. But the biggest draw back to self publishing is the ability to distribution of the book after all of the investments have been made. One of the... Continue Reading →
California State Route 241, Rancho Santa Margarita (Roadside Remembrance) copyright 2009 Douglas Stockdale I have been continuing to work on the thorny problem of 1) selling my self-published books, 2) the high cost of the Blurb published books if I publish something really nice with them, and the 3) potentially limited distribution channels because of... Continue Reading →
Photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale I just realized that I have been publishing this for two years as of this month. nice. Thank you all for your support, feedback and comments, I appreciated it very much. Best regards, Doug BTW I forgot to mention that this was my Chinese birthday cake that the hotel in JiaXing had prepared and... Continue Reading →
The workshop went really well yesterday at the LBCC PhotoFest09, great participation (like they had a choice with my workshop breakout assignments!) and super enthusiasm. The best part was all the personal feedback on how they were able to betterconceptualize their projects that they had envisioned, but had struggled to get their arms (minds) around. nice. Jeff Smeding and... Continue Reading →
I am very pleased to announce that my hardcover book In Passing will continue to be available at the 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, OR. This is the first gallery bookstore that one of my books is available at. nice. So now I need to add this information to my web site and figure how to continue to promote... Continue Reading →
When I signed up for SoFoBoMo 2009, I had no idea what my photographic project was going to be. So it was a DaDa moment and I just arbitrarily made up a weird title as a place holder. Hopefully no harm done, eh? And perhaps today is a convergence of ongoing thoughts and random occurrences.... Continue Reading →
Old Snow, Big Bear Mountain, 1978 copyright of Douglas Stockdale I have been inventorying my existing photograph prints regarding my re-embracement of Limited Editions. For the silver gelatin prints that I have made over the last twenty five years, that continues to be daunting, as another one resurfaces every now and then as I dig through my piles of... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, Wayne's comment regarding my article about the Swallows Day Parade as a potential new "series" has led me to further redefine my intent with the use of the word "series". Why and how I use that word to characterize a group of photographs. Which is a pretty good idea before I stand before the 60 or so folks at the LBCC PhotoFest... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 