Looking at one photograph at a time
Surf Fishing, San Clemente Beach 2016, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale While I continue to work on my workshop agenda for the LACP Marketing Your Photo Book, I was reminded about a brand focusing process I used for my consulting company many years ago. The methodology has the unlikely name of Hedgehog Concept and when researchers were... Continue Reading →
Big Raft, Bluewater Shore, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Recent events related to the self-publishing of my limited edition artist book Bluewater Shore is causing me to rethink how I might describe myself to others: artist or photographer? Okay another option might be artist/photographer. I am probably reconsidering this whole classification subject because of my preparation on the subject... Continue Reading →
San Clemente Beach May 2016, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale This was not a great weekend. Earlier in week I was not feeling great, but Thursday evening and Friday morning I seemed to be over what-ever-it-was. But what-ever-it-was came back to bite me Friday afternoon and only this morning did it seem I was getting on the... Continue Reading →
Photo Book Photography; Norman strobe set-up, April 2017 Copyright Douglas Stockdale In conjunction with The PhotoBook Journal, I received a donation of a very used Normal Strobe Lighting kit to improve my process of photographing book covers and interiors. The donation was made by Dual Graphics, the Brea, CA book printer who printed my recent... Continue Reading →
Life Guard Station #14, San Clemente, CA, May 2017, copyright Douglas Stockdale The same day this month that I captured the gradations beach photo on San Clemente beach that I discussed here, I also photographed the adjacent Life Guard Station #14. In fact I believe that the earlier beach photograph was captured in front of... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles, I-5 Freeway, March 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While driving up the I-5 Freeway into Los Angeles earlier this year, I was again finding myself in the bump-to-bumper traffic grind common for this part of Southern California. So similar to my bumper-to-bumper photographs in my recent drives to San Diego, I used the opportunity... Continue Reading →
San Clemente Beach, May 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the delightful aspects of picking Ella up at the San Clemente train station is that the station is directly adjacent to the Pacific ocean. We are talking about only a few yards. Thus I normally volunteer to pick her up and then I leave early... Continue Reading →
Canon 5D body copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Maybe I might not be the last person to find this out, but I now know that Canon Service is no longer providing support, either maintenance, repair or replacement parts, for the original 5D body. I found this out last week when I drove over to Costa Mesa... Continue Reading →
Santa Ana, CA, May 13 copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale This is not meant in any means to be a technical review of the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens that I just purchased, but in the immortal words of the late Garry Winogrand, I want to see what this looks like. This is essentially the first exposure... Continue Reading →
Gerhard Clausing's portfolio, EXPOSURE 2016, copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale LACP (Los Angeles Center for Photography) has just announced the dates for EXPOSURE 2017, their three day portfolio review event. I am very honored to be among a diverse and broad group of portfolio reviewers again this year. Similar to last year, I will be providing portfolio... Continue Reading →
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