Looking at one photograph at a time
Season’s Greetings (Version 2), (San Clemente pier, CA) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – Wishing you all a Happy Holiday and Season's Greetings as we end 2023, regardless of how you may Celebrate the end of the year events. Last week I had provided a sly clue as to what our Seasonal card might look like, implied by... Continue Reading →
Season's Greetings, (Version 2), Verso, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – I came up with what I thought would be a vice nice version of a holiday card for this year that would incorporate my latest interest in hand-sewing my prints. As you might imagine, my real intent and interest was in the design and sewn pattern... Continue Reading →
Untitled (#9514-3) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – I have been taking note of the various writings on the subject of Happiness and one of which that really resonates with me is about taking note (credit) for the positive events in your life. This is a self-affirming act and create all sorts of positive vibes. As artist, I think... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglements series, #9515-4) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – With 2023 coming to a close, I need to post a shout-out that I have been writing about art and photography here since 2007, which has been an interesting 15 years of publishing my random thoughts on art and photography. I am not sure that this is much... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325 version #2) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale – When I started to consider how I might increase the visual presence of my Last Iceberg series, one of the first thoughts that came to mind was what-if these Last Icebergs could provide us with an distress message as to what the full extent of... Continue Reading →
My SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P) Zoom book workshop dates have moved to early 2024. The new dates are January 20, 21 and then 27, 28th 2024, from 10 AM - 1 PM, Eastern Standard Time (EST). I have designed this workshop so that we work on the book design basics the first weekend and... Continue Reading →
Untitled (The Last Iceberg series, #9200 Solo Voyage) copyright 2022/2023 Douglas Stockdale – Last week I wrote an article about working with a back-stitch on one of my Entanglement cyanotypes and how I came up with an idea of how to potentially represent the barb's along the barbwire fences. Which then led me to consider other alternatives to... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series, #6908-2) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – When I recently learned to use an embroidery back-stitch on my cyanotype prints for one of Last Iceberg series prints, I realized that using the back-stitch on one of my recent Entanglement series cyanotypes (above) could be ideal solution to a problem I had encountered. I had found... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series #8182-11 Zoning) copyright 2019/2023 Douglas Stockdale – My Entanglement project that gained a Critical Mass 2023 Finalist recognition continues to evolve and morph. It has changed to the point that there is still a slight visual resemblance, but now with a stronger emotional and visual edge. Concurrently, I am continuing to learn more about... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale - Necessity is the mother of invention, which recently for me meant learning another embroidery design trick that I can incorporate into my cyanotype prints; the back-stitch. First came the concept that I was attempting to investigate. Up to now I have been using what I... Continue Reading →
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