Looking at one photograph at a time
Seaweed, San Clemente beach, June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of my recent experiment/fun projects has been to investigate photographic possibilities at the beach, which regretfully as a genre is a mine field of cliche photographs. So rather run from the obvious as I attempt to skirt around these cliches, the rather wonderful aspect of... Continue Reading →
Fog (Memory Pods project) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I am delighted to announce that another of my Memory Pod project photographs has been juried into an exhibition, which in this case is the 4th Annual Members Exhibition for LACP (Los Angeles Center of Photography). The juror is Paula Tognarelli of the Griffin Museum of Photography... Continue Reading →
Compass Dance, OCMA June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend I was the event photographer again for the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) Family Day held in conjunction with their latest exhibition. Although my intent was to capture the interaction of the attendees with the exhibition, family activities and school concerts, I was able... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore, self-published 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago I was preparing to make another series of bookstore submissions for Bluewater Shore, my limited edition artist book. In looking at my "press photos" for this book, I realized that I needed to have a set of photographs showing the book's cover, with... Continue Reading →
Seagull protest, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale In the art business there is a service market segment that I was not really aware of until recently: Mentoring. In my biotech world we would call this same type of service consulting and I have come to understand is essentially the same kind of service; having a skill or expertise... Continue Reading →
Life Guard Station #13, May 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very honored to be featured in YourDailyPhotograph today with a special limited time offer (today!) for the photographic print of Life Guard Station #13, May 2017. Archival pigment print: 15" x 15" on 17" x 22" Hahnemuhle matte. This is part of a series of... Continue Reading →
Surf Fishing, San Clemente Beach 2016, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale While I continue to work on my workshop agenda for the LACP Marketing Your Photo Book, I was reminded about a brand focusing process I used for my consulting company many years ago. The methodology has the unlikely name of Hedgehog Concept and when researchers were... Continue Reading →
Big Raft, Bluewater Shore, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Recent events related to the self-publishing of my limited edition artist book Bluewater Shore is causing me to rethink how I might describe myself to others: artist or photographer? Okay another option might be artist/photographer. I am probably reconsidering this whole classification subject because of my preparation on the subject... Continue Reading →
San Clemente Beach May 2016, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale This was not a great weekend. Earlier in week I was not feeling great, but Thursday evening and Friday morning I seemed to be over what-ever-it-was. But what-ever-it-was came back to bite me Friday afternoon and only this morning did it seem I was getting on the... Continue Reading →
Life Guard Station #14, San Clemente, CA, May 2017, copyright Douglas Stockdale The same day this month that I captured the gradations beach photo on San Clemente beach that I discussed here, I also photographed the adjacent Life Guard Station #14. In fact I believe that the earlier beach photograph was captured in front of... Continue Reading →
