Looking at one photograph at a time
JiaShan, China, 2008 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Just to say it again, I am a photographer. Oh right, I am actually a lot of things; husband, friend, dad, Papa, etc. But as to what and how I creatively express myself, I have settled on being a photographer. For about 15 years I was a painter.... Continue Reading →
I diffenently have many moments of becoming the 'Charlie Brown' of photography, when the thoughts Make up your mind, Douglas! come roaring into my head when it comes to editing my photographs. Case in point is this image, Sign of the Times, that I made on the road into PingHu. One of the many new city signs... Continue Reading →
I have started working on the development of my second Edtioned Folio, which will be 15 images from my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip. As to a book version of this series, after wafling back and forth so many times, I feel compfortable that the series was well represented in LensWork and the entire... Continue Reading →
After writing yesterday about needing to have some wiggle room in a self-assigned series, it did get me to thinking about two other series that I was working on, specificily A Sideways Glance and Transitional Seam. For both of these series, I am photographing a specific area of Riverside County. And I am finding that one of these two... Continue Reading →
For those not reading Mandarin characters, the pinyin title is Zhou Chang Ying Yeh, the Chinese title for my project Open During Construction. The phrase roughly means that the business is open as usual, which provides me with some more ambiguity and room for creative interpretation of where I want to work on this series. I have been back and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday on my drive home, I noticed that I had not seen two of the three memorials that I had photographed in Southern California on the toll road. One is a little out of the way, so to reconfirm that it had been removed, I took a little extra time this morning to drive by... Continue Reading →
After I was back in China last month, I had received an email from Paul Butzi regarding the walled villages found in China. He did not have an opportunity to go through one while he was over in China, but had I? I knew what he was talking about, because I had seen the remaining... Continue Reading →
I have been thinking about my post yesterday, regaring how much of me is in my photographs. I will have to admit, up to now, you might not know that I have a engineering degree and extesnisve technical implmentation expreience by viewing my images. (or do you??) In a way, I have been avoiding that... Continue Reading →
During the week, I had a chance to investigate the Amazon POD option, BookSurge. So I tried to read all of their teasers, but it appears is that BookSurge wants to get paid to do it all for you, while holding all of their cards very close to their chest. I had not realized getting a... Continue Reading →
As my title states, I am trying to get organized. My bad tendency is to get over committed and at some point, I need to figure out who is on first and what is on second. I am trying to get organized after being out of the country for three weeks, back a week and... Continue Reading →
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