Looking at one photograph at a time
Untitled (Anonymous #01) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale Another project that has been lurking in the background is the concept of personal privacy and concerns with identity theft. I have worked with a couple of different ideas on how to explore this concept. Then I realized that the most elegant might very well be the most... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pods #21, May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale This morning I was out scouting some more memory pods that I had seen around the area over the past couple of days. It seems that this idea is not going easily away. Stylistically, I have been denaturing the color in my images, but in... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pods #16, May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I was captivated by the composition and appearance of two rose pods after the bloom. What I had not been attempting before this was the documentation and development of the same subject over time. Hopefully apparent the image #16 above was the earlier of the... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pods #07, May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale While developing this photograph for my Memory pods series, I kept finding myself introducing a warm hue. Up to this point I have been exploring variations of a neutral or tan background color. Color can convey a whole litany of narratives; such that a warm red... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pods #04, May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale A continuation of my investigation into memory and its preservation. So I am intrigued as to why these various photographs seem to keep drawing me back. Visually I have made the pods to be more indistinct much like a memory but what about the entanglement?... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pods #01 May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. This is my first visual experiment in my investigation using seed pods as a metaphor for memory and its preservation. Since I have completed over a dozen, I realized it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep track of each of these so I... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pod 02 May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I am continuing to work with the Snapseed app and my memory pod photographs. This is another interesting image for me that I developed yesterday, but I wonder about the composition and what draws me in? If the project is about memory pods as a... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pod 03 May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale After downloading the Lomo Camera FX Free app for my Samsung 4, my PX buddy Jim McKinniss also suggested that I check out another free Samsung 4 app from Nik called Snapseed. I saw, I liked, I downloaded (my spin on an old Latin saying).... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale The power of suggestion! I never know where an idea may come from. Sometimes, such as this case, while contemplating and writing about one thing the next morning I am greeted with an inspirational idea. Yesterday, while writing about the Lomo Camera FX app,... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Zachary, San Onofre State Park, CA April 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale A reclining boy on top of rocks and gravel. The actual location is visually ambiguous with few clues. Upon closer inspection there is what appears to be seaweed on the rocks, as well as some of the rocks have a sheen of... Continue Reading →
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