Yesterday morning, it just seemed that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing was working and all of my images were just not coming together at all. So last night, while looking at the images after a couple of failed attempts with my Black and White mojo, I realized that what I... Continue Reading →
Photo of the Day: Lake Elsinore
Bromley Ave, Lake Elsinore (from the series Transitional Seam)
Skies tooo blue
While working on yesterday's Photo of the Day, I again am having issues with the Blue clear skies we have here in Southern California. Specifically, I have a little too much 'noise' becoming apparent in the blue sky of my image after my applying my Black and White mojo. The noise in the sky (my version... Continue Reading →
Photo of the Day: Lakeside Health Resort
Lakeside Heath Resort (from the series Tranistional Seam)
State of Lithography printing
I just purchased the November/December 2007 edition of LensWork and found a very interesting article by Brooks Jensen about the state of the art for Lithographic printing. You may think of lithographic printing as your local printer (not quick copy center) who prints your newspaper, books and magazine. The bottom line, is that the very top end of... Continue Reading →
China again next year
I received the third phase contract for another two weeks in China, probably next January. This project will take me about an hour car ride South of Shanghai again. This will be another opportunity to go deep again as it will be two weeks in the same area. The weather will have changed a bit since the... Continue Reading →
Site change (again)
I have been having some issues with the design of my blog and thus went out to see what my options were. Main issue is to provide the linkage information, but also be able to post a 750 pixel wide image to maximize the size. What was begining to happen was the posted image was... Continue Reading →
Folio versus a book
One of the items that Brooks Jensen and I discussed last month was my interest in self-publishing a private limited edition book. Brooks then mentioned what he is publishing, which he calls "Folios" and so I did a little research on his process. It is very interesting. There is no binding involved, in as all of... Continue Reading →
Artist Statement – A Sideways Glance
Corona (From my series A Sideways Glance) I completed the first draft of my artist statement for the series A Sideways Glance and posted it on my web site here. I'm still a little bum'd with leaving my first written draft on the back of the plane in Shanghai, perhaps thinking that I might have... Continue Reading →
Artistic Statement – Insomnia: Hotel Noir
Expressway Heights (Insomnia: Hotel Noir) 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am in the middle of a bunch of multi-tasking tasks and I am afraid that I am not getting much of anything accomplished. So I have decided to work on taking first-things-first. The first is to follow up and complete the artistic statements for... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 