Looking at one photograph at a time
Middle Ground, San Diego, June, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale - A quick update; last night I did make my MoPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) submission and as anticipated, I went with the theme of Political Satire for my Middle Ground urban documentary project. Besides the theme, I needed to place this photographic project in... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, San Diego, June, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I have been giving some thought to a MoPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) submission for my Middle Ground project. Which I need to sort out quickly as the deadline is December 5th. Yikes! One submission category is Host Space Exhibitions and for that submission it... Continue Reading →
Three Amiga's, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier this month we attended a family wedding in Virginia and it was fun to have the extended family get together. As it seems with most families now, this group is spread geographically far and wide. After the wedding when almost everything was packed up, I noted these three... Continue Reading →
Hawaiian Bananas, Waimea, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale For the Thanksgiving week we went to the Big Island of Hawaii, which was the first time that I have been on this Hawaiian island as we normally end up on Maui. And I can now attest, there are lots and lots of lava fields. Also meant that... Continue Reading →
Compass 2017 copy right Douglass Stockdale A few days ago I was tagged for the 7 Day Black & White Challenge; Seven days. Black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Nominate someone. I was nominated by Kellie Webb and over the seven days I am to nominate someone else to pass this... Continue Reading →
Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale My self-published Guide was formally launched at the Medium Photo Festival in San Diego, CA last week end. A copy was provided for each person who registered for Medium, compliments of my book sponsor, Dual Graphics, the book printer located in Brea, CA (note:... Continue Reading →
While down in San Diego's North Park region for the Medium Festival I had a chance to join John Gossage as the two of us did a local walk-about around the neighborhood near the Lafayette Hotel. We had just finished a rambling hour and half "interview" that I published in The PhotoBook Journal when he... Continue Reading →
San Diego, January 2017 (Middle Ground) copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Back in early August, I was lamenting over some "crunchy" looking photographs and what I thought was the resolution to my problems. Now I am pretty sure I was not quite right, but nevertheless close since in fact I was very much over-sharpening my JPEG... Continue Reading →
Technical Photo Book Donation, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am running out of library space, plain and simple. My shelves are over-run and it is time to make some decisions as to what is going to go versus stay. Thus the low-hanging fruit to dispose of are all of my out-of-date how-to and technical photo... Continue Reading →
Red lines, Workshop outline, Second Edition, 2017 Douglas Stockdale As I stated in an earlier post, in conjunction with the current workshop class, we self-published the second edition of the Workshop outline. I had really thought that this outline text was pretty well nailed-down. Alas, due to the eagle eyes of my workshop participants, Jocelyn... Continue Reading →
