Urban Tree, Spring 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Perhaps like Edward Steichen in his later years, I find myself photographing a backyard tree, as I had posted earlier here. Perhaps this could develop into a photographic project, but for now, I am content to think of this as a pleasant on-going series. Cheers
Photobook Judge
2016 photobook jury team As I announced here last month, I am part of the photobook jury team for Photobook Independent and the first photobook competition (me in the white shirt in the group photo above). More about the rest of the jury, here. The actual book judging occurred in LA yesterday. I can't announce... Continue Reading →
Revising Black and White Conversion workflow
Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, California, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale In my last post discussing my evaluation of a new work flow for Photoshop CC, what was implied, but not really stated was that one of the key CC attributes under evaluation was the conversion of my color digital photographic files to Black and White... Continue Reading →
Revising my Photoshop workflow
Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, California, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Late last year I moved from Photoshop CS3 to the Adobe Photoshop subscription CC (aka the 2015 version). A bit of new CC changes were in the way the RAW Browes/converter looked and functioned; a few of the controls were not so obvious to obtain... Continue Reading →
Observations – San Diego
San Diego, California, January 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale As I posted earlier about making local day trips this year, I was just outside of San Diego for a meeting and while waiting for everyone to show up, I did a brief walk-about. Signs, as photographed most poignantly by Walker Evans in the 1930's, continue to fascinate me.... Continue Reading →
Winter – Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California, November 2015 copyright Douglas Stockdale Today is the first day of Spring, so time to say goodbye to old man Winter! For me, that means that I need to also say goodbye to the winter photographic weather, such as this day back in November that we were down in Newport Beach waiting... Continue Reading →
Rain drizzles – amazing water effects
RSM, CA March 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale After just posting about photographing the rainy reflections found on my back patio, we soon had another round of rain which was followed by some steady drizzles. Yep, there was a similar refection on my patio (changes a little bit each time), but no call to action on... Continue Reading →
Rainy day reflections
RSM CA January 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I have to admit that on rainy days, especially in the morning when the available sunlight casts some interesting shadows, I enjoy photographing the reflections on my back patio. First, I have always been drawn to wet reflections as a subject for a long time, while realizing that... Continue Reading →
PhotoBook Competition Judge
Photobook Independent - Photobook Competition 2016 I have some great news, I am honored to be recently selected as one of the judges of the PhotoBook Competition this year as a part of the Photo Independent activities occurring at the end of April in Los Angeles. I just posted a quick update as to the... Continue Reading →
On the road again
I-5 Rest stop, near Oceanside, CA 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Unlike my earlier international travels as part of my day-job, my recent trips are more about a series of local day-trips either driving down to San Diego or up to Los Angeles. Both of these locations, as well as many of the places in between,... Continue Reading →