Looking at one photograph at a time
untitled (San Francisco Airport, CA, January 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. While looking at these two alternatives as potentials for my Instant Nomad series, the panoramic above is more in line with my intent. With a traditional format camera, I would have definitely wanted to step back to include the multifaceted perspective. Each window is... Continue Reading →
untitled (Industrial Yard, Corona, CA December 2013) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. Continuing to look at my panoramic photographs as a part of my Instant Nomad project. And continuing to be interested in how these particular kind of panoramatic formatted photographs look. I choose the cropping of the 10 x 8 format below to isolated and... Continue Reading →
Untitled (In n Out, Corona, CA December 2013) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale Oh where to begin? Firstly, this is another photograph that may or may not be in my Instant Nomad photobook but IS included in the project, if that makes sense. I have a ton of images I will consider as I edit, but... Continue Reading →
Artist photobook maquette, Bluewater Shore, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. As I stated earlier this month, one of my short term objectives to finish my first maquette for this artist book was to obtain some feedback on book concept & design during photo l.a. this weekend. In fact, I did manage to obtain a bunch of... Continue Reading →
10x10 American Photobooks exhibiton catalog, copyright 2013 10x10 Photobooks Today was a bit of virtual housekeeping day, as with all of the events that crashed into the end of the year, there were some things that I did not complete that I should have. Most of these tasks are related to my personal self promotion... Continue Reading →
Artist photobook maquette cover, Bluewater Shore, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. A couple of days ago I started a discussion about my next artist photobook for 2014, Bluewater Shore, which I have just finished the first maquette in preparation of getting some feedback from friends at photo l.a. next week. First, in the photo of the... Continue Reading →
untitled (working title: Bluewater Shore) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale At the beginning of the year I like to think about what I might accomplish for the coming year, with this being more of a bunch of loose-goosey planing objectives. Having worked in corporate for tooo many years, I know how rigid and constricting a plan... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale. I was thinking earlier today that I should finish the year with a post about what my objectives were for next year and thoughts about this past year. But then Manik Katyal, the Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of Emaho magazine disrupted my great plans with his article about Pine Lake. So how... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Union Ice Picks) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale. While I was developing my artist book Pine Lake, I had started selecting photographs for what will probably be the second artist book in this series about memory, family, nostalgia and remembrance. I am also going to make some changes for this next book, one of which... Continue Reading →
Me (photo by Wendy Hicks) at Duncan Miller gallery, Santa Monica, CA Yesterday afternoon was a fun and interesting event being a participant at the Duncan Miller gallery Photo Art Book Fair held in Santa Monica. Actually my first time as a "exhibitor", so thought I would share a little bit about this experience. First,... Continue Reading →
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