Just a quick note before heading down to breakfast and then off to the factory.... A wet morning in Marburg, and the hotel I am at is down in the old section. So not sleeping so well this morning, I set up my tripod to work with the wet street reflections and the bikes across the... Continue Reading →
Travel Log: Arriving at Marburg
My camera bag arrived safe and sound! Yeah!!! So while I was waiting for the train in at the Frankfurt airport for the ICE (high speed express) to Frankfurt Bahnhof (main train station) I took some images. So far so good. But this has been a looooong day. I did catch some sleep on the flight... Continue Reading →
Travel log: passing through London
Well, since I am not able to post images, I just might give you some updates on this three week venture. If you all yell too much, I will not post and save you some misery, otherwise, it's a nice distraction;- ) Currently I just landed in London Heathrow to make a transfer to Frankfurt. Nice flight, but AA... Continue Reading →
Blue sky again
It was really nice to have a blue sky and some white clouds. We still have fires burning, but with the change in weather, the smoke is risking and allowing the sky to show. That does help to lift my spirits. I just checked in my luggage for Frankfurt and had to stuff my tripod... Continue Reading →
Photographic Content
Photographic (Artistic) 'Content' is probably an easier concept to understand and accept. The basic definition of 'content' is that its information. My dictionary states "The meaning (there's that other bugaboo word) or significance of an artistic work as distinguished from its form". Another is reference is 'context', which we see frequently as it relates to a... Continue Reading →
Inland Empire series on hold
With this posting and leaving on my trip to Germany and then on to China, my Inland Empire is now on hold until I get back at the end of November. Not leaving on a positive note with some of the fires still in progess. Taking Martin's suggestion, I tried to work on my series... Continue Reading →
Photographic Form
untitled (Guadalupe State Park, Texas 2006) copyright Douglas Stockdale There has been an ongoing dialog sparked by Colin Jago on Stills regarding Content versus Form. I think that the word 'content' became stickier when perhaps I tried to use the word 'meaning' to try to help understand the 'content', as used in the phrase "the... Continue Reading →
Smokey Glance
I could not help myself, I had to apply my black & white mojo to the earlier image in the post below. I don't think that you have the same forest fire smoke content in this image.
Sideways Glance at a Forest Fire
One of the bitter sweet aspects of a forest fire is the colorfull sunsets as the sun shines through the smoke clouds. So I think that this makes sense to post in color. This smoke cloud with the evening sun trying to get through is from the the Santiago fire, due to the arsonist had started this fire in... Continue Reading →
Still distracted
With the continuing wild fires here in Southern California, I am still distracted from creating or working on my photography projects. I did stop briefly yesterday to re-shoot the "resort" again, which I think will turn out a little better. No smokey sky or 40 mph winds will in itself be an improvement. But due to... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 