o untitled (San Carlos CA #9341) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale. Another interesting addition for one of my nomad projects. cheers!
San Carlos airport tower
San Carlos, CA
untitled (San Carlos, CA #9360) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale. As I have previously mentioned, for my day job I am a bit of a global nomad. And I spend a lot of time at airports while passing through various cities and countries. On occasion I have an opportunity to inspect the surrounding airport infrastructure a... Continue Reading →
Artist Book Project PL
untitled (belt & suspenders - book dummy 1) by Douglas Stockdale Well this ought to be the most boring photograph that I have or maybe ever will post. This year my summer photographic project has been very interesting; to self-publish a limited edition (photographic) artist book. Actually a very fun project without dead lines while... Continue Reading →
ANSCO – Snapfolio
ANSCO Snapfolio booklet cover I was aware of the Kodak processing promotional booklets, but until recently, I was not aware that ANSCO, their film processing competitor in the 1950's and 60's, had a similar film processing promotion. That was until I was sorting through my Grandmother's family photo collection that had been passed down to... Continue Reading →
Chugging along
untitled (Kapalua, Maui) copyright 2013, Douglas Stockdale. It seems like I have a bunch of balls in the air at the moment, nothing final to report, just that I am moving forward and hopefully making some progress. My Gardening for Ordinance project is on a temporary hold while I gain some confidence in asking some... Continue Reading →
Kodak processing booklets
untitled (Charlene, Phoenix, 1955) copyright Douglas Stockdale While working on my SNAPS project, I have been evaluation some photographs that are still in their original Kodak processing folders or booklets. If I recall, Kodak was providing these booklets as a bonus with a set of the larger prints. I notice that for these Kodak booklets,... Continue Reading →
Pro scans while Gardening for Ordnance
Gardening for Ordnance Copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale Odd title for a post, but hopefully it will soon be self evident as to the reason for this narrative. Perhaps until very recently, I have been doing my own film scans after processing. First, I have the film scanning equipment and second, I am cheap. Very cheap.... Continue Reading →
SNAPS – New Photo Project
Copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale I have found myself with another photo project in the early stages of development. Background; I spend perhaps too much time collecting, reading and then writing about contemporary photobooks. One genre of photobooks that has been developing for some time are the artists books that are based on found snap-shots. This is a case in... Continue Reading →
Adjusting to the Fujichrome change
copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale With the demise of Kodak 120 Ektachrome, I have made the required change to the 120 Fujichrome, in my case the Fujichrome Provia 100F, considered a Super Fine Grain film. This also means that I might need to make some changes in my overall workflow, including the film scanning on the... Continue Reading →
Missing palm
copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale. Late February I was working on the scanned image of the palm that I photographed as a part of a new project. In a post about this image, I had concluded that I needed to photograph this composition again in the early afternoon sunlight. Which I thought today was a good day to do... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 