Looking at one photograph at a time
untitled, Riverside County, California, 2007, copyright of Douglas Stockdale Here in the United States, we are about to celebrate a holiday we call Thanksgiving. This holiday is from a celebration by the very early settlers in the U.S., that they were still alive and giving thanks for all that they had. I do not usually get... Continue Reading →
Tree Grove, Indiana, 2007 copyright of Douglas Stockdale Finishing my book In Passing and now waiting for the first proof (suppose to ship tomorrow) I found myself with that "in between" feeling. Somewhat similar to the "let down" that many of the SoFoBoMo book publishers felt after an intense 30 days of creating, developing and... Continue Reading →
Over the weekend, I received the all of the Critical Mass submission's on CD. I believe that there are about 640 submissions, which then had to be reduced to 175 for the final determination of 50. I have two takes on this CD, first if I was in the shoes of one who was juring, and second... Continue Reading →
In Passing, Second Edition, Blurb, 2008 by Douglas Stockdale I had thought that the next book that I was going to publish was going to be my Sharpening book. Surprise! It turns out to be the second edition of my series, In Passing. First the good news. New size, the Blurb large horizontal 13 x 11",... Continue Reading →
Seems that the fourth revision, but second edition, to my book In Passing is moving along at a brisk pace. For those who have not followed along for the past year, my very first printed (version) proof was a mess. But out that publishing experience came my how-to book, Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing. nice. My second version... Continue Reading →
Dave Olmstead is now completing the final edits of my revised Sharpening book for POD publishing. So in the mean time, I have been working on a new how-to publish with POD and the revision of my book In Passing. I had been thinking of removing the first edtion of the Sharpening book off Blurb, since... Continue Reading →
Puerto Rico, November 2008, copyright by Douglas Stockdale I just completed a quickie trip to Puerto Rico to give a half day workshop. Fly all day from SoCal, get into PR at night, wake up at hotel at gawdawfall 0-dark early (4 hours time change), then off to a conference room to teach. That evening, small group of... Continue Reading →
Hutong ReDevelopment #7, 2007 copyright of Douglas Stockdale Catching up on my reading and I found that I had received some really nice comments by Miguel Garcia-Guzman on his blog, Exposure Compensation regarding my Un-Critical Mass submission, Re:Development. I really like his description of my work and to quote Miguel: "Doug’s work highlights a beautiful sense of space, patterns and... Continue Reading →
I just noticed that yesterday's post was number 499, so I stated thinking about what to post for number 500. I guess not much. I noted that this journal has been viewed over 37,000 times, which seems amazing to me. For the most part, this journal has been a lot about me venting and formulating my plans.... Continue Reading →
In this case, it is about editing the stuff I write. I do admit, sometimes what I write it not too lucid. Maybe that is also the problem with what I photograph as well. hmmmm. I am doing the re-write of my sharpening book, and I did not think it was too bad the first time for a Saturday write and publish.... Continue Reading →
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