Litho Printer’s mock-up Surprise

The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow (Artist book mock-up) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – When working with a commercial printer on a book or really any publication, requesting a mock-up that reflects your quote, printing paper and book design intentions is pretty common. I can also say it might be one of the more uninteresting aspects of... Continue Reading →

Happy Mother’s Day

Bluewater Shore copyright 2020 Douglas Stockdale Today is Mother's Day, a day in America to celebrate all mom's everywhere. Although she passed away many years ago, I still miss my mom. Mother's Day is also about the celebration of women and all that they do, even if they have chosen not to be a mom.... Continue Reading →

Blue wave forming for ’22

Anthropogenic Crisis No 6829 (Warming Water) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – Convention wisdom is that with the pending printing and subsequent printing by Singular Images Press of my new artist book that I should be promoting the pre-publication sale to help pay for it. Especially with my trip to San Diego tomorrow for Medium Photo Festival. Like I said,... Continue Reading →

Medium Photo walkabout pre-selling my artist book

The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow (Another airline terminal) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – This week Medium Photo Festival is resuming an in-person event, their first since the shut down by the COVID Pandemic. I will be attending Saturday, May 7th, for the various lectures and book signings. As well as I will carrying my book-dummy... Continue Reading →

Arbor Day 2022

Anthropogenic Crisis No. 4266 copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale – Arbor Day is another opportunity to stay in tune with the environmental changes just whizzed by. The initial stated intent of Arbor Day was a day to plant a tree. Regretfully, most of us do not have a place to do this on our property, or at least I do... Continue Reading →

DxO PureRAW 2 image processor for noisy images

Vernouillet (The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow) copyright 2010 Douglas Stockdale - A couple of friends of mine who are members of the Photographers Exchange have been discussing the relative value of an updated image processing software published by DxO; DxO primeRAW 2 to eliminate or drastically reduce digital image noise (color artifacts). I... Continue Reading →

Make it Earth Day every day

Anthropogenic Crisis No. 094656 (Warming Water) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – I had been really pushing the abstraction potential of a coupe of my Warming Water series images and was unsure of how these might read. Then I read the interview of Jason Lindsey on Lenscratch and his environment project Cracks in the Ice. Lindsey's conceptual project is about using... Continue Reading →

Happy Earth Day!

Anthropogenic Crisis No. 092228 (Warming Water) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – While working on my book review of Rita Leistner's Forest For The Trees, in line with my the realization of the mighty pen as a potential climate change 'influencer', I also need to post my own best wishes for a wonderful and effective Earth Day. Each day we can... Continue Reading →

Earth Day & the mighty pen

Alan Gignoux, Mountain Tops to Moonscapes, copyright 2012 While recently discussing Earth Day and what I can do about affecting climate change, I sort of had a brain fart and skipped over one of the most important elements that I have at hand; my editorial capabilities to write and discuss the issues of climate change.... Continue Reading →

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