Looking at one photograph at a time
My recent journey to China seemed to start on the right foot. While we were waiting for our plane to load, I looked out the window to an incredible scene that was unfolding at the aircraft across from us. The juxtaposition of the various support players was fascinating, with the cleaning crew on the ground... Continue Reading →
JiaShan, China (Just Looking series) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - My biggest complaint during this last trip into China was the lousy cold weather performance of my Canon Rebel XTi. On consecutive days I had problems with using this camera in the cold weather. It did not shut down altogether, but after a certain point,... Continue Reading →
Since I have a brief run of color images, I will add one more, this one from the ancient city of Xitang, near Jiashan. Xitang is classified as a old (1,000 years old) water village that is not being slated for urban development, at least right now. It is a local tourist trap for the... Continue Reading →
While I was in China, I did see the notice that SoPoBoMo (aka Solo Photo Book Month) was formerly announced and launched. I see a lot of familiar names in the list of willing participants, including Anita Jesse, Guy Yates, Colin Jago, Paul Lester, Rosie Perera, Kjell Andersen, Matt Alofs, Martin Doonan and of course... Continue Reading →
One of the nice things about 13 hours of flying, you have more than enough time to reflect. And I have accepted that with my blog, that I am going to share those thoughts. Kinda of getting comfortable with my own skin sorta thing. From time to time, I create color images from my color... Continue Reading →
My third trip to China took me into Shanghai, then South to Jiashan, Pinghu and a side trip to Xitang. For the most part of the three weeks, I was staying at a hotel (World Expo hotel, not recommended) in Jiashan and working in Pinghu, getting to the lake at Pinghu only once for a... Continue Reading →
Just a quick note that I have returned from my recent three weeks in China, where they have a blog block, but never the less, I did take some photographs. More about all of that in the coming days, but it is nice to be home! Best regards, Doug
I will be off -line for a couple of weeks due to an assignement that I need to complete. I will not be making any posts or responses to blog comments, although I will try to monitor them from time to time. Please take the opportunity to review my 300 posts that I have made over the last nine months,... Continue Reading →
I found myself thinking about perception again, as it relates to how I photography, what I see and equally as important, perhaps what I don't see. As to how we are raised, we start to get 'programmed', not perhaps in the evil sense of this word, but the idea that our language and customs get... Continue Reading →
While printing my Foundations folio, I have had only one issue with the Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (308gm), which is with the Hahnemulhle feeding through my Epson 4800. This is a modest size printing project, as I needed to print only 130 cut sheets of 8-1/2" x 11" for the first printing of this folio. I had heard about paper... Continue Reading →
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