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Untitled (Memory pods #04, May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale A continuation of my investigation into memory and its preservation. So I am intrigued as to why these various photographs seem to keep drawing me back. Visually I have made the pods to be more indistinct much like a memory but what about the entanglement?... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pods #01 May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. This is my first visual experiment in my investigation using seed pods as a metaphor for memory and its preservation. Since I have completed over a dozen, I realized it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep track of each of these so I... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pod 02 May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I am continuing to work with the Snapseed app and my memory pod photographs. This is another interesting image for me that I developed yesterday, but I wonder about the composition and what draws me in? If the project is about memory pods as a... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pod 03 May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale After downloading the Lomo Camera FX Free app for my Samsung 4, my PX buddy Jim McKinniss also suggested that I check out another free Samsung 4 app from Nik called Snapseed. I saw, I liked, I downloaded (my spin on an old Latin saying).... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale The power of suggestion! I never know where an idea may come from. Sometimes, such as this case, while contemplating and writing about one thing the next morning I am greeted with an inspirational idea. Yesterday, while writing about the Lomo Camera FX app,... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I am not big on camera or software evaluations, but as I have been playing with the Lomo Camera FX app for my Samsung 4 and posting some resulting photographs, I thought someone might be interested in an overall evaluation. Especially since this a... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale Garry Winogrand made famous a statement that he wanted to photography things to see what they looked like, which this morning so did I. What did things look like with the Samsung camera app Lomo Camera FX that I had just downloaded? Cheers!
Untitled (Reata, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale When I posted in Facebook yesterday about looking for an alternative camera-phone app for a Polaroid appearance, I posted this photograph. The immediate feedback was that the image looked too sharp. Then it immediately dawned on me, in addition to recognizable traits of... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Reata, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale When Jim McKinniss was showing me the Lomo Camera FX app on his Samsung, I was very intrigued by the Polaroid mode option. Included below is my original Polaroid from the 1980's, as I have been interested in the Polaroid's characteristic limited contrast... Continue Reading →
Untitled copyright 2014 Jim McKinniss & Douglas Stockdale Met up with Jim McKinniss for a quick dinner and beer before the monthly PhotoExchange Meeting and we eventually starting discussing his SoCal retro house photographs that he was posting on Facebook. The conversation eventually turned to the camera-phone app he was using with his Samsung, Lomo... Continue Reading →
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