Looking at one photograph at a time
Double Nuckle-draggers, Vail, CO 2009 photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale Well we did another one of those wonderful road trips, taking the extended family skiing to Vail. One of those good news, bad news things. Skiing with your granddaughter for her first outing after a bunch of ski school lessons was wonderful. Skiing with your daughter... Continue Reading →
This last week I was in dicussions with the folks who are organizing the Long Beach City College PhotoFest, which runs from April 1 - 4th, 2009 about a potential half-day program I could lead. And now its a reality. I am on this year's agenda for a three hour program on Developing a Photo Project, which will... Continue Reading →
Last night I received the nice news that the second edition of my book In Passingwas juried into the Photo+Book exhibition at the 23 Sandy Galleryin Portland, OR. The exhibition will run the month of March, which coincides with my book making workshop at the 23 Sandy Gallery in mid-March. Okay, coincidence that my book... Continue Reading →
I had some thoughts about adding another photograph from the series with this post, but appears that WordPress has other ideas. Actually nothing really inspiring to add, just working the series with regard to editing. Which image goes where kinda of thing. I have a nice intro, a nice ending, and a couple of good... Continue Reading →
Sleeplessness from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photographs by Douglas Stockdale At the moment, I am working my way through the series as I concurrently develop my book dummy, estentially editing the storyline. At this point in time, I have approximately 50 photograhs that I am considering. Now I am testing each photograph as to my... Continue Reading →
Bed Check from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale Again, another comment by Anita regarding the development of this series and an observation about the cinematic feeling she is getting. Cinematic is just not a term that I casually drop into a conversation. So my first reaction was that this is an industry... Continue Reading →
Reception from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale If a story needs a begining and an end, I think that the photograph Reception is where Hotel Noir starts. This is a nice lobby and reception area considering some of the places that I have been. When you drag in after midnight,... Continue Reading →
In Transit from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photograph by Douglas Stockdale I think that one of my biggest weaknesses with the development of a photographic "story" is that I don't know crap about writing a novel. Hey, that just might be a good thing, eh? So since I don't know the rules, then... Continue Reading →
Phone Conversation from the series Insomnia - Hotel Noir photography by Douglas Stockdale With the recent comment from Anita regarding my recently revised photograph from Insomnia, she stated that the photographs were less ambiguous and more narrative. Hmmm, did I really mean that to happen? A narrative quality would seem very relevant to a story, .e.g a... Continue Reading →
Departure (Insomnia - Hotel Noir series), photography by Douglas Stockdale - I have developed a number of iterations of this photograph, varying all sorts of aspects related to color and tonality. Sometimes I start to wonder which one is right, while that implies that I might not fully understand the concept I am working on.... Continue Reading →
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