Chester, UK (The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow) copyright 2012 Douglas Stockdale - I have not provided very many updates recently about my book-dummy for The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, that investigates (my) separation anxiety as it relates to travel. A bit unusual for me. Let's just say that this book-dummy has... Continue Reading →
Stockdale book development workshop with Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Book-dummy, Gardening For Ordnance copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited to announce that I will be teaching my virtual book development workshop in conjunction with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) next May, 2022. This course was just announced by CPAC and its an honor for me to join this Denver organization's workshop team.... Continue Reading →
New series – Anthropogenic Crisis
Untitled (Anthropogenic Crisis No. 124555) copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - When I wrote about a potentially new series of re-imagined botanical subjects a few days ago, I was not really sure if this was going to be a series that had some wheels on it. As a friend stated when she looked at her recent... Continue Reading →
Negative Perspective
Untitled #192801 (Anthropogenic Crisis series) copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - Yes, a literal negative perspective of one of my Memory Pods photographs that I was evaluating and tweaking late last night in the full spirit of my Experiment/Play process. I am not sure fully what to make of these negative (inverted) images of this and... Continue Reading →
Reticulation patterns
Caustic Networks #9793 (Quantum Elements series) copyright 2020 Douglas Stockdale - While working on the series of photographs that investigates the sub-atomic world of particle physics, I have not really been calling much attention to the visual aspects of what results. Such that when the image is deconstructed and distilled into black and white, such... Continue Reading →
Quantum Elements – magical events
Quantum Elements (Caustic Network #165000) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2021 - My Quantum Elements series continues to evolve as I am really fascinated with the macro aspect of particle physics, those things that occur at the sub-atomic level, but yet provides evidence of the events that we can not see occurring. So cool. This is another... Continue Reading →
LACP 2022 Exposure Weekend – Portfolio Reviews
I am very honored to again join the Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP) Exposure Weekend team early next year for an intensive series of portfolio reviews. The actual reviews will occur over the extended weekend of January 27 - 30th, 2022. A great way to start the new year. Registration will open on Tuesday, November... Continue Reading →
When is an artistic series complete?
Memory Pods #074252 2021copyright Douglas Stockdale - This question, when is an artistic series complete? was one of the many questions that Brooks Jensen, editor of LensWork, asked me in my very first interview. It is a question that as you can imagine that has stuck with me. As background I had submitted my Roadside... Continue Reading →
Searching for Water
Trabuco Arroyo, Fall copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - Yesterday I was on a little quest for running water to experiment/play with my Quantum Elements series and I was surprised not to find any. The reason I thought I would find some is that Trabuco Creek that runs through Trabuco Arroyo near me has moving water,... Continue Reading →
Sub-atomic flow
Sub-atomic Flow #3624 copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - When I published my earlier article about a trip up to Oregon and then out onto the coast to visit Patterson beach, I had hinted that there might be another follow on article, which is this one. Another aspect of the Oregon coast is the many small... Continue Reading →