Last year was interesting in that I found myself a little overwhelmed with maintaining my web-journals and other photo-groups and then pulled back. Then one thing led to another. I then jumped back into the thick of things by startinga blog for our monthly photo group called The Photo Exchange. And I realized that I needed to get to more photographic... Continue Reading →
Full Bleed Photobook pages
Away Station from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograpy copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the interesting internal changes that have arisen from my recent book reviews is my complete reversal on the use of full bleed photographs being in photobooks. Up till last year, I have realized that I was a bit of a purist (also read... Continue Reading →
Insomnia memories
Some additional fine tuning and tweaking of this photograph over the last week for the Insomnia project. Best regards, Doug
Insomnia Nightwalking
Nightwalking from the project Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale
Insomnia Nightscape
Nightscape from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir - photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale
Entrance to Insomnia
Entance from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir - photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale
Photographic book reviews – part II
Reflections from the project Insomnia: Hotel Noirphotography copyright of Douglas Stockdale I have been reading and assessing a lot of photographic books recently to publish on The Photo Book, and to a lesser extent, photographic reviews at galleries, but still looking a ton of images on the Internet. One aspect of these reviews that I bring with me, probably... Continue Reading →
Developing the Limited Edition book
Country Road, Texas from the project In Passingphotography copyright of Douglas Stockdale I have been looking for an elegant way to complete the Limited Edition book and photograph for In Passing. At the moment, it appears that the print will probably be the easier of the two, but I want to do a little more than just shrink... Continue Reading →
Insomnia – open ended
Open Ended - from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir copyright 2009 Douglas Stockdale One of the outcomes of gaining clarity of a project or series, is that all of a sudden, there are seeming less decisions to be made. As to what I need to do just seems so obvious. I am also realizing that with a cinematic story, in... Continue Reading →
Insomnia – Blurb publishing intent
I have been sitting on the fence as to self-publish or make submissions to the established publishers for my project, Insomnia. There are some pros and cons for each alternative. But the biggest draw back to self publishing is the ability to distribution of the book after all of the investments have been made. One of the... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 