Looking at one photograph at a time
Bad Dreams (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...as I have always known, I do a little better with some motivation! My wife will probably agree (and maybe toooo quickly) that I do procrastate, push off something till a little later. Thus getting the tonality of the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip... Continue Reading →
At the Tollgate (form the Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...I think that I am going to be a big fan of the new Black&White Adjustment layer in CS3. I had been trying to tweak out the sky in this image with my previous workflow: using channels, choose the channel that gives me the... Continue Reading →
Silent Witness (form Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...We are celebrating the U.S. independence day this week, which officially occurs on this Wednesday, July 4th, but we sometimes make a week of it. Yeah! I have been waiting for this occassion to post a rather sobering image as a reminder for those who like to party perhaps... Continue Reading →
Fading Memories (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...Mark commented today about the potential impact of reworking the tonal qualities of my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip as being a "nightmare". He was not aware of how true that statement was! After the realization of what I was going to have to do,... Continue Reading →
No Longer Paradise (From the Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...I am re-posting this photograph from my series,which is one that had I made in Hawaii, but the first time I posted it, I had a strong diffusion effect on the foreground. One of the few images that the diffusion effect seemed to work with the photograph.... What I am... Continue Reading →
Hope (from the Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...being visually oriented, words are the hard part for me, becasue otherwise I would be a writer, eh?. For those who have been following my writing about my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, you are should be vary familiar with my struggle with the words... Continue Reading →
Death Scar, copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale ...this picture that I made in Hawaii was a during my transition for the In Passing (Bad Trip -Sad Trip) project, from "what Doug saw" to what this series suggests. I think that this image better illustrates what first attracted my to begin this series. Most certainly one factor is the context... Continue Reading →
Sustaining Testimony ...I will be traveling extensively tomorrow (Thursday) and I hope to make the Photographers Exchange in Irvine, so this is my entry for then. Oh, and I have yet to make the four prints from the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip to discuss. This is the venue that I have to get... Continue Reading →
Tragedy, copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale ...I am currently reading the book Photo Projects by Chris Dickie in which he writes about a number of photographers who have had the "determination to succeed" with completing their projects. It sure does seem that I am following in many of their footsteps and that is not neccessarily a "good"... Continue Reading →
Deterioration ...it was the right intent, but just the wrong implementation for the naming of the earlier image from the post about Santa Rosa Plateau I made a couple of days ago. This morning I realized that using a German word for the title was as bad as the original title, as it was too obsecure (my apologies to my German... Continue Reading →
