Looking at one photograph at a time
Arroyo Trabuco trail, December* 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale In addition to my new routine of morning walks during which I venture into the adjacent arroyo, back in the studio I have continued to work on my Middle Ground project. At the moment the Middle Ground project is not going include any black & white images... Continue Reading →
Rain Puddle, Rancho Santa Margarita, January* 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Puddle reflections, like window reflections, can be fascinating. The viewer is both looking in as well as looking beyond, a bit of found surrealism. With window reflections, the overlaying image is usually behind the photographer, thus a interesting potential metaphor about the "past". In this... Continue Reading →
Tijeras Creek trail, December* 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale As I posted earlier this month about my change of life style, one of the reasons I have started walking was to lose a little weight in order to be a bit more responsive when we go skiing next month. My first weight loss goal was 15... Continue Reading →
Signage, Arroyo Trabuco trail, January* 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While walking the Arroyo Trabuco trail I have noticed a number of really deteriorated signs with a wire mesh that appeared to have covered the missing signage. All of these were in really bad condition, thus I could only speculate what was there. This seemed to provide... Continue Reading →
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 →
