Looking at one photograph at a time
I have continued to muddle on about what to do with the SoFoBoMo project and the resulting book. I think that I have come up with a possible solution. One of the things that Laurie Frank had said at the Palm Springs Photo Festival last night was that many of the artists in her gallery... Continue Reading →
Somewhere in Transit, Copyright Douglas Stockdale With not a lot to write about at the moment, I thought today would be a good time to make a quick announcement about having survived my first year of this blog. Like my projects, writing and publishing my articles has not turned out as I had expected and seems to have... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, in writing about photography projects, I develed more into why do a photographic project. I think a lot of folks know a good reason to do a project, but then comes WHICH project? I think that this is the part that gets a little messy in as there is no easy or correct answer.... Continue Reading →
In Passing (I Love You), hand-colored cyanotype, copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale - One question that seems to come up often with regard to my photography; how do you come up with your photography projects? This was a frequent question during the development of my published project In Passing (working title Bad Trip - Sad Trip),... Continue Reading →
For this post, I am guessing that many of you are not going to need to read it. And it is one of those good news - bad news things, at least for me. So to save some of your some trouble, the bottom line is that if you want to get your images looking... Continue Reading →
In Passing series copyright Douglas Stockdale - While finishing the artist proof for my next Edition Folio and thinking about a Blurb book for the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, I am now rethinking the title for the series. When the series was published in LensWork magazine, they provided this body of work with the... Continue Reading →
PingHu, China copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale An image that I made of the three men crossing the street in PingHu may not be part of my series I'm Just Looking (Wo Zhi Kankan). It is a picture about them looking (and of course, me looking at them doing the looking). I can not put my... Continue Reading →
I am continuing to muddle over the comments regarding Contemporary Landscape Photography and the idea of appearing neutral in the presentation of the visual facts. And perhaps what it means to be objective. Taking this from a different mental perspective may help me, that is, what is a Great Landscape Photograph? I think that the use... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Transition, Winter Storm, China) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - This is the part that drives me crazy. (which is dangerous to say when you live in Southern California). I come up with a great idea for a series, which in this case is a working title of Wo Zhi Kankan (I'm Just Looking) a... Continue Reading →
Winter Field, JiaShan, China (Wo Zhi KanKan - I am just Looking) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - When I read a question asked by Miguel Garcia-Guzman on his blog Exposure Compensation (2014 update: the Exposure Compensation blog has been removed and has a new owner) regarding what constitutes Contemporary Great Portrait Photography, that started a kernel of thinking as... Continue Reading →
