Looking at one photograph at a time
Entanglement (revised series), Cyanotype, Expired film, 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Asking the question: Can a multi-decade old, decommissioned WWII/Korean War practice bombing range be representative of historical social issues that are current today in America? I have started to investigate this question using both expired 120 film and solar cyanotype prints. The expired (120)... Continue Reading →
California Sycamore, Spring (#2224) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - The first time I wrote about this California Sycamore, above, using the original digital photograph, I had cropped it tighter to create an 8 x 10" image on the 11 x 14" cotton rag. That image of this composition was also posted as a digital black &... Continue Reading →
California Sycamore, Fall (#2399) copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale - When I started experimenting with making solar cyanotypes last year, I somewhat arbitrarily started printing on an 11 x 14" sheet of rag, since the 11 x 14" printing frame was relatively inexpensive, a pre-coated 11 x 14" cyanotype paper was easily available and using a... Continue Reading →
California Sycamore, Spring, Fog (Into the Woods), 2007/2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - When I first encountered the very old California Sycamore trees in Trabuco Arroyo that runs thru O'Neill Park, I found that it was kinda of strange in how these trees over the years and years essentially have 'laid down', but then keep extending... Continue Reading →
31 step wedge & Nextav 3A photo copyright Douglas Stockdale - Last December I had written an article about using a Zone system gray card to determine my solar cyanotype exposure times as a means to obtain the Dmax (Maximum Darkness, e.g. blackest tonalities) for my solar cyanotype printing process. I have actually moved on... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Gardening For Ordnance series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - A couple of days ago, I wrote an article about the need to embrace unexpected outcomes when solar printing cyanotype prints. So imagine my surprise when last night I obtained the film scan results from a lens test while using some of last reserves of... Continue Reading →
Sycamore, Fog, Spring copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale One of the things I am adapting with my solar cyanotype printing, perhaps common to most alternative photographic processes, is to embrace unexpected outcomes. As a scientist, this aspect of alternative photography has been the most vexing. Way back when learning the Zone system, it was always about... Continue Reading →
Insomnia copyright 2012/2022 Douglas Stockdale Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in May in the United States since 1949 and was started by the Mental Health America organization. Highlighting this condition is to help understand the underlying issues that lead to anxiety and depression in order to combat the stigma of this illness and... Continue Reading →
Sycamore, Spring, Trabuco Arroyo, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale Earth Day is today! A great reminder to be aware of the environment and climate change. Nevertheless, as I state on my IG account and usually sign-off on my blog articles, we need to make every day an Earth Day, not just try to do be environmentally... Continue Reading →
3RD BIENNIAL REVA & DAVID LOGAN PHOTO BOOK SYMPOSIUM - Photo courtesy of Barry Schwartz - A little shout-out about providing my presentation this past weekend at the UCBerkeley School of Journalism Third Biennial Reva & David Logan Photo Book Symposium. Joining me were Kris Graves (KGP) and Michelle Dunn Marsh (Minor Matters) on this... Continue Reading →
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