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.
Smokey Glance
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 →
Photo of the Day: Health Resort
This "Health Resort" typlified today; fire storms and smoke clouds, Freeway closures and people needing to flee their homes, some of which have burned to the ground, and Santa Ana winds with gusts up to 60 mph, which in the Inland Empire meant a dust storm. And I just heard that about 500 homes burned... Continue Reading →
Not a normal day
For those not aware, for the last couple of days we are plagued with a series of fires in Southern California in conjunction with some strong wind (sand) stormes that has made life miserable. We are doing okay, but my commute is now an extra hour each way and not the best time for taking... Continue Reading →
Transitional Seam update
Frontage Road Home (from the series: Transitional Seam) In preparation for my trip to Europe and Asia starting next week, I am anticipating spending some time on my artistic statements for the various series that I have been working on recently. For what I read, it is recommended that writing the artistic statement is where you should... Continue Reading →
My Hand Made Book – paring images
This morning I printed my latest pairing of images for my hand made book, that of the Heart Broken Fence and Halloween Costume, both of which I photographed earlier this week and recently posted images of. I am now finding myself making some more image adjustment tweaks to help ensure the continuity of the pairing. ... Continue Reading →
Heart Broken Fence
Heart Broken Fence (from the originally titiled project: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale This is the other Victorville road side tribute memorial that is located about 150 feet from the Halloween Costume image I made earlier this week. The other memorial you can see from the I-15 freeway, but this one is not really... Continue Reading →
Photographing Techniques
Road to New Custom Home Lots (From the series Transistional Seam) A comment from Anita Jesse earlier today about my photographic technique made me realize that I should share some information. She had asked a simple question; where did I park (my car) to take these pictures? For my current two series in progress, I have two... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 