I am really honored to have an opportunity to be presenting at a Medium Photo 2020 Lecture series event on March 20th, from 7:30 - 9pm at the You Belong Here artist venue, located at 3619 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, California 92104. Very Cool! "Medium Photo is proud to present an evening lecture with Los... Continue Reading →
Mystery on Trabuco Flats – Pseudo Night
I just love serendipity. While working on my other projects I had the sinking feeling that my interest in the fictional Mystery on Trabuco Flats project was not going to go anywhere. So totally on the back burner. I thought that having some night photographs might add more to the mystery to my story, but... Continue Reading →
Gardening For Ordnance – Image/Text combinations
I am continuing to study and evaluate the combination of the photographs for my project Gardening For Ordnance, with the appropriated text from the various documents about this decommissioned military site. I find this to be an interesting process. Being a Charlie Brown guy, I bounce back and forth between making the relationship between the... Continue Reading →
Interviewed by scott b. davis for Medium Photo
Last week I was interviewed by scott b. davis, the Executive Director of Medium Photo, about my pending book development workshop that I will be leading this March in San Diego. (See link below for more information on the workshop and to register.) The purpose of this interview was two-fold; promote this book development workshop... Continue Reading →
Guide to Self-publishing an Indie Artist Book – Sold Out!
This is the second book sell-out announcement for 2020, the first is one of my Ciociaria Limited Editions (Cachi (Persimmons), Morolo, Italy). Wow. Technically all of the copies of the softcover Guide book are not entirely gone, but after a quick check of my dwindling inventory and a decision that I am not going to reprint... Continue Reading →
Exhibiting Photo Book photographs – cropping changes?
Over the holidays I was re-examining my 2018 project Middle Ground and thinking that since CalTrans has demolished almost all of the iconic San Diego freeway median I had photographed, perhaps this project might now warrant a second look in a gallery space in San Diego county? What I had not realized at the time... Continue Reading →
Ciociaria limited edition book – Sold Out!
Cachi (Persimmons), Morolo, Italy, 2012 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very happy to announce that Cachi (Persimmons), Morolo, Italy, one of my two limited edition book + print sets for Ciociaria, is now sold out. Nice! I created the two Limited Edition Book + Print Sets shortly after the Ciociaria book was published by Edizioni Punctum. The sell out... Continue Reading →
Best wishes for a creative 2020 New Year
Best wishes for you all in 2020 for a creative New Year! In years past following my look back at what occurred over the past year is this; my article about my outlook for what might lie ahead. Like any good project manager I think setting some goals to accomplish is neccessary to set your... Continue Reading →
2019 End of year wrap-up
Bewilderment (Memory Pods) copyright 2019 Douglas Stockdale It's the end of another year, so it is a great time to celebrate new friends, closer relationships, accomplishments and good times. So today I am looking back at 2018 about what I had hope to accomplish in 2019; both hits and misses. Just maybe that will help... Continue Reading →
Christmas card photo – 2019
The holiday season is upon us again and is time for me to choose a photograph for our annal Christmas Card & Season's Greetings. Last year I found a really nice photograph for our Christmas card that I had captured when we were earlier in Vail Colorado that seemed well suited, and which was well... Continue Reading →