Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
In Transit, photograph by Douglas Stockdale First, because of a really nice suggestion, I am going to provide my working titles for my images on this journal. Just do not hold me to them, okay. While I was journaling about my series Insomnia, one of my questions was when and where does the disassociation and the realization of being separated really... Continue Reading →
Untitled, Insomnia - Hotel Noirseries, photograph copyright Douglas Stockdale While discussing with Titarenko about his book, he was always emphasizing the region of warmth that he had brought into his photographs as metaphoric Hope of the Russian people. Then after my discussion with the French photographer Fleuret about his photographic (book) story Landmasses and Railroads, I realized that I could... Continue Reading →
Gas Station, Valencia CA photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale In between the Steelers winning and the Eagles losing their respective football games, I have continued to work on my series Insomnia. And on top of that, I should really be writing on my latest book on how to develop a photographic POD book. I think that... Continue Reading →
Insomnia - Hotel Noir, photographic series, Douglas Stockdale I have spent a lot of the day printing variations of my photographs for the series Insomnia. I am still experiementing with the blue undertone and a spot of a warm tone selectively applied to bring to mind a feeling. But that means printing a bunch of variations... Continue Reading →
One of the take aways from my discussion with Titarenko last weekend at photo l.a. has been the reserection of my earlier series Insomnia - Hotel Noir. This series was developed somewhat concurrently with In Passing, with In Passing more of a window, while Insomnia leaning more towards an introspective mirror. Perhaps I am somewhere in between... Continue Reading →
After a relatively intense day last Friday at photo la, I guess it is not unusal to have a little post event let down. I had provided a quick assessment as an update with my earlier post, but now I am in the mode of prolonged post-event reflection. One take away: be true to myself. There are... Continue Reading →
At the moment, I am making plans for a day in Santa Monica and at photo l.a. Laura Russell and I are meeting for morning coffee to put finishing touches on the workshop at her gallery in March. Then I want to head over to Bergamont Station in Santa Monica for the rest of the morning to... Continue Reading →
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