Summer heat

Georgia summer heat and humidity;  as you walk out the door of your air conditioned house (low temp and low humidity), you hit the wall of warm sticky heat. If your lens is not covered,  the front element is immediately coated with a fine layer of condensate and this is what you get. I did not mind,... Continue Reading →

Fort Frederica GA

A while back I was impressed by some photographs that Aline Smithson had posted on Lenscratch for a photographer (sorry, name escapes me) who had photographed some museum exhibits, which looked wonderful. So while walking through the small museum at Ft Frederica on St Simons island, I could not resist. All I had to do was chose my... Continue Reading →

GA beach cottage

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 →

[Re]starting a project

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 →

Top 10 by Source

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 →

Each vote counts

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

Book submission back on track

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 →

Successful book query

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 →

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