Looking at one photograph at a time
Andy Adams of Flak Photo has kept recommending that I set up a Facebook page for The PhotoBook, which I finally did today. So I am going to try this and see what happens. So if you would like to become a "fan", please follow the link (hope it works) and sign up. There will definitely be a little trial and error... Continue Reading →
A good friend of mine, Larry Vogel, has started a new blog this last weekend, called The New Renaissance Man. Although Larry is primarily a photographer, represented by the Susan Spiritus Gallery here in SoCal, he is muti-talented to the point of considering himself a new Renaissance Man. His blogging intentions are stated here: This... Continue Reading →
First, interesting week. Having the new flooring laid in the studio was a one day job,and it looks great. But that was followed by the carpet in the house, only one day, eh? BUT with moving everything out to get the new stuff down, getting everything back in place is a slooooow pain in the hinny.... Continue Reading →
Not much to write about at the moment. I am in the middle of installing new flooring in the studio, in preperation for the larger format printer that I have been considering. And as one thing leads to another, this little wood flooring project is being immediately followed up with carpets for the house, because now... Continue Reading →
I received a heads-up from the Blurb PR folks that they were going to announce a new update on their free book-making software BookSmart. From the press release, it appears to have some of the attributes of InDesign, with added customization capabilities. Wish I could say more, but the Blurb site is a bit slow in running for the... Continue Reading →
Last week after deciding to stop posting on Photo Exhibit and to start deleting off some of my lamer early posts (okay, I think that they did get better latter on when I became a little more confident with what I wanted to write), I had hesitated at the deleting the gallery announcement about (John) Luke Smalley.... Continue Reading →
Last year was interesting in that I found myself a little overwhelmed with maintaining my web-journals and other photo-groups and then pulled back. Then one thing led to another. I then jumped back into the thick of things by startinga blog for our monthly photo group called The Photo Exchange. And I realized that I needed to get to more photographic... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, I had provided a very brief overview about my earlier bias against full bleed photographs in a photobook and some reasons why my opinion about full bleed photographs have now changed. I am actively designing my photobooks with the intent of using full bleed photographs. As Martin pointed out in his comment yesterday, after I decide to use... Continue Reading →
Away Station from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograpy copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the interesting internal changes that have arisen from my recent book reviews is my complete reversal on the use of full bleed photographs being in photobooks. Up till last year, I have realized that I was a bit of a purist (also read... Continue Reading →
Cover photograph, Oak Tree in Winter, 1842 - 1843, photograph copyright of the William Henry Fox Talbot Estate Well again, I succumbed to temptation at the book store. This time it was a retrospective of the developmental and creative work of one of the early photographic pioneers, William Henry Fox Talbot, published by Phaidon last year.... Continue Reading →
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