West Lake, China 2008 copyright Douglas Stockdale The annual print exchange will be occurring at The Photographers Exchange on Thursday this week, with more about this group, including the time and place of the event, here. To prepare a print for the exchange (you bring one, you take home one), first I realized that I did... Continue Reading →
Fiumicino Italy
Fiumicino nets, 2010 copyright Douglas Stockdale - My return to SoCal is a bit disrupted by all the snow in NY with my flight to JFK cancelled, so in the scramble I now have a flight from Rome to London and then non-stop to LA, BUT on Sunday. So an unplanned and extra day in Italy, sad, eh?... Continue Reading →
Nightscape – Fiumicino
Nightscape - Fiumicino, Italy 2020 copyright Douglas Stockdale Finishing up this trip to Roma, we were staying at Fiumicino out by the Roma International airport and had a recommendation for one of the local seafood restaurant, Zi Pina, which turned out to have both great seafood and a very nice selection of wines, so thank you Giuseppe and... Continue Reading →
Flat Irons lookout
Boulder Lookout for the Flat Irons, CO 2010 by Douglas Stockdale Heading towards Boulder on 36 a couple of times and I had noticed that there was this Lookout, which I had suspected was for the range of mountains known as the Flat Irons. Why was it call Flat Irons, I don't know, but it is. So... Continue Reading →
Sandstone Creek revisited
Sandstone Creek, Vail CO 2010 copyright Douglas Stockdale We were back in Vail last week for our annual ski vacation, when the folks from Southern California go "visit" the snow. Only this year the snow was not so great, so lugged the ski gear but did not use it, which was okay. So more time... Continue Reading →
Another realization
I think it was the beginning of 2009 that I came up with this brilliant idea of posting items related to my projects on the project blog pages, e.g. anything related to my project Insomnia would be on the Insomnia blog (www.insomniahotelnoir.wordpress.com). Okay, so this was not so brilliant. But like any idea, it was... Continue Reading →
Insomnia project update
Okay, this is putting a positive spin on reality; one of the up-sides of my intense travel schedule this past four months has been to allow myself some space between finishing my Insomnia: Hotel Noir book dummy last Fall and examining it again now. When I brought this dummy with me to Italy last month, I realized that... Continue Reading →
Realization
When I start taking photographs, I cease to see. Because instead I am now taking photographs. Best regards, Douglas
Fiuggi snowstorm
Fiuggi, snowstorm copyright Douglas Stockdale 2010 Last December I recevied the Chamber of Commerce line about snow in Fiuggi: "oh, it does not every snow in Fiuggi" - Ha! I know what that white crap looks like, and this is it. So now you know my friends, it does snow in Fiuggi ;- ) Douglas
Holiday Self portraits
Self portrait, Rome copyright Douglas Stockdale