LACP Introduction to Photo Book Design, photo Douglas Stockdale The early-bird registration discount of 20% for my Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop that I will be leading next April over two weekends will be ending midnight this Saturday, December 17th. This creative workshop is sponsored by Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP). So if... Continue Reading →
Santa Fe (Brian Finke creative exercise)
Santa Fe, Berger Street, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I was intrigued with one photograph I made of the gate into the courtyard at our rental house in Santa Fe. It reminded me of what a portal might appear like, which in this case could be a potential portal into the past. To enhance that potential visual... Continue Reading →
Living Santa Fe (variation on Todd Hido creativity lesson)
Living Santa Fe portfolio 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale As I wrote earlier about our recent Thanksgiving in Santa Fe, we had rented a house for this long weekend that exhibited all of the Santa Fe charm you could wish for. I found myself photographing this home's interior and exterior landscape and on return, created this... Continue Reading →
Walking Santa Fe (& a creative lesson from Todd Hido)
2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the nice aspects of Santa Fe, New Mexico is the relatively small and centralized layout of this early Western town.It is quaint, very picturesque, great food and now has a zillion art galleries, including a couple of photographic galleries; photo-eye and Verve (which regretfully in closing in February 2017)... Continue Reading →
Walking Denver
Denver 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I found this to be an interesting urban landscape while we were walking a little bit of Denver (Colorado) this past week.. The Fall colors in conjunction with most of the leaves now laying on the ground, that in turn reveal the older house that was probably hiding behind the shrubs... Continue Reading →
Jason Fulford & Gregory Halpern – The Photographer’s Playbook
Copyright 2014 Jason Fulford & Gregory Halpern published by Aperture While in Santa Fe and visiting the photo-eye book store, I had an opportunity to get a copy of Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern's book The Photographer's Playbook. The subtitle reveals the essentials of this book; 307 (photographic) Assignments and Ideas, which are distilled from... Continue Reading →
Denver Night Abstracts
Night Light copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale On our first evening in Denver last week there were some remnants of snow still on the ground, which I found intriguing. I started playing with some cast light patterns created by a residential nightlight (these were solar powered units; the light was not that strong and had an interesting... Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving Road Trip – Denver
Golden, Colorado 2016 Copyright Douglas Stockdale Road Trip! For Thanksgiving we motored from SoCal up I-15 and then over I-70 to Denver to meet up with family for Thanksgiving. Denver was not the final stop, but we did take time to meet-up with some of our family and a couple of side-trips before heading down... Continue Reading →
Just Announced: LACP introductory book design class next Spring
Douglas Stockdale 2016 photograph by Ella Webb Surprise! Not often you will see my mug on this blog. The special occasion is that Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) just added my profile as one of the LACP instructors for a introductory book design class I have developed and will be leading next Spring. The... Continue Reading →
Memory pods – 9-12-16 negative #8
Untitled (September 12, 2016 Portra 160 Negative #8) 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I just finished scanning this negative from my Memory Pods project. For this photograph, my subject is just barely out of focus. I have determined that this negative in conjunction with two others from this same studio session might create an interesting triptych,... Continue Reading →