Looking at one photograph at a time
Well the Summer road trip may be done, and we booked about 3,500 miles out to Denver then Blue Springs, MO and back again. Always nice to be home, but had a wonderful time with visiting family. Oh, yeah, regular gas in MO was $3.70 per gallon and back home, five days later, at $4.40 per... Continue Reading →
While in Independence and Blue Springs, Missouri over the weekend, I missed the opportunity to go see the photographery exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, called Human/Nature: Recent European Landscape Photography. It received a nice write up in the Kansas City Star newspaper, which whetted the visual appatite. The release for the exhibit states: This... Continue Reading →
Hopefully you will not confuse the picture posted here (Lake Elsinore, CA) with Independence, MO, but I have not had a chance to process any of the images yet. Stay tuned! So we just finished a long weekend side trip to Independence, Missouri for a surprise birthday party for my sister-in-law. Nice when something like... Continue Reading →
Stockdale and Framani, photography copyright of Tim Anderson While doing some catch up reading this morning, I did a quick check of the Camera Arts site and noticed that Tim Anderson (publisher Camera Arts) had posted some images he made during the Palm Springs Photo Festival (4/3/08). Canon had lent Tim a 5D with the 24-105mm L lens... Continue Reading →
While passing through Denver, I had a chance to spend a half day at the Camera Obscura Gallery with Hal Gould and Loretta Young-Gautier. We had a great conversation as we walked the three galleries of images, including the current exhibit of Christopher Burkett. I provided a copy of LensWork #74 with my series In Passing,... Continue Reading →
My friend Ellen Butler just sent me a "heads-up" and provided a link to the Creativity Network. If you scoll down, you will find: Doug Stockdale and my recent SoFoBoBo book Places Amongst Us. very nice. I guess I need to update my web site with some of the images from Places Amongst Us. That will have to go on... Continue Reading →
Still working on the editing of the work from Eastern China. Seems what is working for me now is to concurrently develop the two series, with still the idea that they may come together. But one is a collection of found images while the other is set of found circumstances that help illustrate a project in... Continue Reading →
When creating bodies of work, I see similarities between photograph and other creative works, such as music, novels and poems and plays. I guess that it can be argued a photograph is like a poem or perhaps a short story. I find myself thinking of comparisons to music, e.g. a musician will write a song... Continue Reading →
There seems to be a lot of dicsussion about the manufactured photographs again, such as Amy Stein's work. I suppose that it has to do with the idea of a totally created work, such as a painting or drawing. An idea or concept is developed and you create the set and find the players. Not surprising, they look... Continue Reading →
Yes, editing and more editing. Does the image capture my heart, does it have an emotional connection, does it work with my head and stay within the boundaries I have arbitrarily chosen, is it a keeper, dud or maybe I just don't know yet. The photograph (an instant recognition and reactionary shutter release) that has taken a brief moment to... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 