Three part Harmony

What I am realizing is that my series Open During Construction (Zhao Chang Ying Ye) is getting a little more complex than some of my earlier work as it relates to scope. Most of my earlier projects were united under a theme and althought they did change over time, but remained realitivly one dimensional. I had an... Continue Reading →

Keeping a Balance

I thought that this made a better blog title than quit being lazy! I have found that as I work a series of photographs, I have been doing some shortcut evaluations and not really taking the images to where I can fully evaluate them. Such that I was going from camera, to RAW editor, to Photoshop... Continue Reading →

Cat and the Cradle

Okay, so sometimes when titling an image, I get a little carried away and think that I have a visual pun. Part of this is pretty obvious, eh? So at the moment, I am not sure what the title of this will be, but I have in this image in consideration for my series Open... Continue Reading →

Ant Farm

As a child, did you ever have an art farm?  The little plastic box that you put sand and some ants in and then watched them make their borrow home. We bought our first one and then decided we had enough ants around the area, we could make our own. They were very fascinating to... Continue Reading →

Create or Find?

Untitled, 2004 Photography copyright of the artist, Gregory Crewdson With Gregory Crewdson's recent cover photograph in the Spring 2008 issue of Aperture magazine, there seems to be a buzz about Crewdson's art process. Such as being disappointed that he may not be the one who actually hits the exposure button. Duh. It's not who actually makes the... Continue Reading →

George Tice

  Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1974 White Castle, Route #1, Rahway, NJ, 1973 All photograhs, copyright of the artist, George Tice Sitting next my book by David Plowden, is the book, Photographs 1953 - 1973 by another urban landscape photographer, George Tice, who I know does have an influence on my urban landscape photography. This retrospective book... Continue Reading →

David Plowden

Vanishing Point, photograph copyright of the artist, David Plowden Last October 2007, David Plowden published his retrospective urban/rural landscape photography book, David Plowden: Vanishing Point. I have not seen the images within the book, but checking his web site, I think it may be like visiting old friends. I believe that Plowden may be one... Continue Reading →

Experimentation

I really, really enjoy the immediacy and feedback that is possible with digital image capture. It has allowed me to be more playful, have some fun, be inventive, and to take big risk much more than what I had experienced with my film days.  With film, the feedback loop was too long. I now understand why I had... Continue Reading →

SoFoBoMo shift

I thought that I had picked out a suitable subject and time frame for my SoFoBoMo project, but then fate has stuck its head in.  I recently completed a medium term project in Riverside County and so I was thinking about where I wanted to work on my SoFoBoMo project. And I had narrowed it... Continue Reading →

I am a Photographer

JiaShan, China, 2008 copyright Douglas Stockdale -  Just to say it again, I am a photographer. Oh right, I am actually a lot of things; husband, friend, dad, Papa, etc. But as to what and how I creatively express myself, I have settled on being a photographer. For about 15 years I was a painter.... Continue Reading →

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