Untitled (High Desert, Oak Creek, November 2014) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Last November in Oak Creek, Arizona. Mixed emotions, many memories here over the past couple of decades. This represents an open ended question for me. So I will see how this progresses. Cheers!
Nocturnal Winter Landscape studies
Nocturnal III (below: Nocturnal II & Nocturnal) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale This last week I was on assignment in the Baltimore area and from what I anticipated about this trip, it was going to be long and late hours entirely inside with a large group of people, which indeed it turned out to be. Thus... Continue Reading →
Picture Postcards
Untitled (MingXinPian #0984) copyright Douglas Stockdale This is a long term and a slowly developing project that I have worked on intermittently these past years. For this photograph I am investigating a feeling about a state of decline or decay. I recently had an opportunity to show this photographic print in conjunction with five similar... Continue Reading →
Wet Landscape study
Untitled (Tijeras Creek, January 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale An attempt to try to capture the mood of the day here in Southern California during one of infrequent periods of rain and drizzles. Cheers
Winter on the Left Coast = rain & drizzles
Untitled (Tijeras Creek, RSM, January 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Winter in Southern California means rain and intermittent drizzles with some snow up in the local mountains. Weather-wise I think all the locals know that we are very spoiled as compared to many of our friends who live elsewhere. So when we get some rain it... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Avedon’s Best Photography Books for 2014 – and I am on it!
Pine Lake, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale As a book artist and photobook specialist, this is the time of year that I provide kudo's to all of the photographers, photobook designers, photobook publishers and the book artists who use photography as a part of their creative medium. This year I was asked by Manik Katyal, the... Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays for 2014!
Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2014 Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! P.S. Original photograph made in 2003 while skiing in Mammoth mountains and using a little 4mpx Canon G4, subsequently printed matte and hand colored, then rephotographed.
Flow of Light Brush the Shadow – Snow Shovel
Untitled (Snow Shovel, JinShan, January 2008) copyright Douglas Stockdale I recently posting about finding one of my landscape photographs at the top of both Bing Images and Google Images. After letting the shock of recognition wear off, I went back to both with the same search term, contemporary landscape photography, and started scrolling down further. Yikes, it... Continue Reading →
Contemporary Landscape Photography – JiaShan
You might image my surprise when I was poking around Bing images last week in-between events when I did a search on "Contemporary Landscape Photography" to see what might come up and the very first image was....mine! Yep, the photograph above, Winter Field, JiaShan, that I created while staying in the city of JiaShan, China... Continue Reading →
PhotoBook Independent – Prospectus
Indie Book Fair, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, December 2013 This coming May 1-3, 2015 there will be Photobook Independent for self-publishing photographers and small independent publishers to exhibit and sell their... Continue Reading →