Looking at one photograph at a time
UXO sign, Plano Trabuco Target Area, January 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While on one of my morning walks, I came across a posted sign for UXO that I had not realized was on the Arroyo Trabuco trail. A nice bit of serendipity as photographing this walking project reminded me of another photo project; my Gardening for... Continue Reading →
Tijeras Creek trail December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Realizing that I am... 1.) continuing to take morning walks and... 2.) I bring a camera to document some aspect of this experience, I... 3.) realize I have a formal photographic project in process and (finally).. 4.) have given it a working title: Path to Somewhere. Thus... Continue Reading →
Beach walk, Crystal Cove State Park beach, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I will have to admit that one of the great things about living in Southern California is that you are usually not that far from the Pacific Ocean beach and living in south Orange County, the beach is a 15 to 20 minute... Continue Reading →
Crystal Cove, morning December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier I expanded on how my morning walk has ventured into the "wild side" as I am now going off-road onto the neighboring nature trails (okay, maybe this photograph above from walking on the ocean beach is not really the "wild side", so read the earlier posts).... Continue Reading →
Crystal Cove, bikes, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale For my 2018 New Years resolution as well as one of my goals for the year was to try to improve my social media presence. Specifically this goal is for my personal artist projects and I will be doing something similar to broaden the presence of The... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Rough Edit, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While continuing to document my morning walks as a potential project, back in the studio I am developing my Middle Ground book project. At the end of last year I announced that this project is my MoPLA submission. So over the holidays I was working on the rough... Continue Reading →
Tijeras Creek Trail, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Earlier I had discussed how my morning walks have taken a bit of detour off into the "wild" as a trade-in for the neighborhood sidewalks and my usual route for the past many years. After a number of experiment/play photographs documenting my walks with my mobile... Continue Reading →
Morning walk, Trabuco Canyon, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale On the brink of 2018 I think is a nice time to reflect on the achievements (and maybe even some of the screw-ups) of this past year, while looking forward to the opportunities and possibilities of the New Year. So what do I have a chance to... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore, limited edition artist book 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very honored that my limited edition artist book Bluewater Shore was just selected by Elizabeth Avedon, the renown NYC book designer, as one of her Best Photographic Books for 2017. Concurrently, I am really excited that Bluewater Shore is also included on Viory Schelleken's... Continue Reading →
Morning Walk, Tijeras Creek, Orange County 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale This past week I decided to change-up my morning walk. Instead of traversing the local neighborhood sidewalks I ventured into the adjacent park and the dirt paths. I realized this was an opportunity to exercise my experiment/play practice in conjunction with my Samsung S5; so... Continue Reading →
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