Looking at one photograph at a time
Welcome to Milano Fashion Week by Douglas Stockdale One of the downsides of jet lag, is pushing your mental endurance envelop when you should not be. But at the time, you just don't know that you are not functioning with all of the neurons firing in full sequence ;- ( Case in point, my personal... Continue Reading →
I am still tweaking the design and layout for my new project-blog, Chinese Picture Postcards. I thought the esthetics for my first choice in WordPress blog designs in line with the project concept, overall black with a red headliner for the blog. But this design was hampered by the fixed width for displaying the paired-up photographs. My concept is to have... Continue Reading →
JiaShan, Hutong Boatman (Chinese Picture Postcards series) 2008 copyright Douglas Stockdale - As I continue to develop my new series Chinese Picture Postcards, I decided that I would start my blog for this project very early on. Since this series is intented to be paired images, one side an idealistic composed photograph and the facing... Continue Reading →
Waycross, GA 2009 copyright Douglas Stockdale
Reminder that Blurb is in the midst of their Photography.Book.Now judging and concurrently they have the "People's Choice" Award. So if you have not voted for your favorite book yet, and you really like my mine, please vote for Insomnia: Hotel Noir here. Best regards, Doug
JiaShan boatman, 2008 copyright of Douglas Stockdale - While I was working my way through the first edit of my photographs for the Chinese Picture Postcards project, this photograph above just jumped at me as the image that could be my potential photobook cover. One potential for this project is a series of diptychs, one of which will be a classic China photograph... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Jerry Burchfield I have found myself very interested in a very old photographic technique that is as old as photography itself. Because making contact prints of objects on photo-sensitive paper was the very first photographic process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841, which I wrote about here. Revisiting Talbot's... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Douglas Stockdale I just completed my 2009 Critical Mass submission with the photographs from my project, Insomnia: Hotel Noir. A photo story that I use 36 photographs to tell and then I have to distill that down to 10 images for my submission. The 10 photographs are here, with the book cover (above) as my... Continue Reading →
Copyright Douglas Stockdale I am continuing to think about what I saw in China over the nine months that I was there. China is a place that is in a rapid transition to try to become "modern", and at the time, they had a ton of money to throw at their public projects. And I think... Continue Reading →
Having received my production proof of Insomnia: Hotel Noir, I think that this project is now "in the bag". I still have some images to save into the submission format for Critical Mass, but I find myself emotionally moving on. So that takes me to what project do I want to develop next? I think that... Continue Reading →
