Looking at one photograph at a time
Beach cottage, St Simons GA copyright of Douglas Stockdale This is one of those photographs that will serve as a memory link to a nice vacation with most of my family on St Simons island on the S.E. coast of the Atlantic. I had been eyeing this corner for most of the week, but then... Continue Reading →
Waycross, GA 2009 copyright Douglas Stockdale
A couple of days ago, I re-validated my advice to others; if you just start to work on a (past/new) project, the act of working on the project engages your mind and vision and pretty soon you are in high gear, with the work flowing easily again. No related photo to post about this, as... Continue Reading →
Last week I was contacted by the editor of the Irish photo magazine Source for an interview, as they had determined that my articles and photobook reviews that I publish on The PhotoBook was a blog that they wanted to highlight as one of the top ten blogs that photographers should be reading. The interview was just published yesterday. Wow,... Continue Reading →
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
Interesting week, but the net result is that today I am getting back on track with my book submission for Insomnia: Hotel Noir. First I could not the user's manual for the monitor calibration and it had been a bit too long since I had updated my monitor calibration (yeah, I know, not a smart... Continue Reading →
I think that I have made a successful next step in publishing my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir, which is to have a book query acknowledged and a request for a formal book submission. One big goal for Insomnia: Hotel Noir was to have it published by a traditional publisher. And one of the advantages of the... Continue Reading →
Title says it all, my LCD monitor has drifted in its color and contrast calibaration. I had not printed any prints for probably for about three weeks. When I had allowed the prints that I made this last weekend to dry down, they were as close in sync to the monitor as I would have... Continue Reading →
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 →
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