Looking at one photograph at a time
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 092228 (Warming Water) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – While working on my book review of Rita Leistner's Forest For The Trees, in line with my the realization of the mighty pen as a potential climate change 'influencer', I also need to post my own best wishes for a wonderful and effective Earth Day. Each day we can... Continue Reading →
Alan Gignoux, Mountain Tops to Moonscapes, copyright 2012 While recently discussing Earth Day and what I can do about affecting climate change, I sort of had a brain fart and skipped over one of the most important elements that I have at hand; my editorial capabilities to write and discuss the issues of climate change.... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 175024 (Melting City) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – While evaluating some of my recent documentary photographs of the Marshall Fire's destruction, black and white here, a color version here, I am becoming aware that these photographs are taking on the attributes of 'ruin porn'. Ruin porn can be described as "a sexy name for a contentious genre... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 6227 (Melting City) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - One alternative to what I discussed yesterday that I might consider with the photographs I made in the aftermath of Colorado's Marshall Fire is to create black and white conversions. These images, like the one above, would result in a very subtle graphic 'abstraction' of the actual chaos... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 092740 (Melting City) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - This past weekend while in Boulder Colorado for a family wedding, I was confronted with the aftermath of the Marshall Fire that occurred at the end of last December. This was a grass fire that became the most destructive in the history of Colorado in terms of structures... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 130333 (Warming Water) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - One of the aspects of an adverse Climate Change, as it is occurring now, is that what's changing day to day is so subtle as to really not being recognizable. Unless something really dramatic occurs. An example is where I live in Southern California; if I were... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 5942 (Climate Change demons) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - While working on my Anthropogenic Crisis series, there are times when the cloud formations over the ocean look very intriguing and I start anticipating something interesting to appear in my post-production process. I can never be sure as to what it might eventually... Continue Reading →
Photograph 2022 copyright Jean Wilder With recent events going on, specifically the Russian invasion and war with Ukraine, I have been distracted and neglected to provide some self-promotion for an exhibition, All About the Light, that I am in. Currently on-going at SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P) in Greenville, S.C., which will close this weekend... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 175448 (Burning Palms) copyright 2016/2021 Douglas Stockdale A moment to have some fun with an unusually day that incorporates a lot of two's: 2-22-22; Twosday. Thus my Anthroprogenic Crisis artwork utilizing a pair of subjects to celebrate this day. Cheers, Doug ____ Workshops: Medium Photo: Developing a Creative Photo Book, a virtual (Zoom) workshop I... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 122955 (Vail) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale The road trip diary continues (day one, Zion here), as the real destination for our one-week vacation in Colorado was the town of Vail. This town is really well known for it's skiing and regretfully this is the year that I not sure my legs were up to... Continue Reading →
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