Last Iceberg (No. 9200) copyright 2022/2024 Douglas Stockdale – With today's solar eclipse and the 'focus' on our sun (and its effects, which is why a ton of individuals have purchased special solar eclipse glasses), a good time to provide a PSA (Public Service Reminder). Global warming of our blue planet is not due to any changes in... Continue Reading →
Marshall Fire: December 30th, 2021
Untitled (Marshall Fire: Aftermath Ashes #6238) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – It was exactly two years ago to the day that the communities in Boulder County, Colorado, experienced an end of the year event in 2021 that is becoming eerily too common; severe drought coupled with hurricane-force winds and one spark too many. What was the environmental lead-up... Continue Reading →
Marshall Fire: December 31st, 2021
Untitled (Marshall Fire Aftermath #094853) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – Two years ago communities in Boulder County, Colorado, experienced an end of the year event in 2021 that is becoming eerily too common; severe drought coupled with hurricane-force winds and one spark too many. Lasting two days over 1,100+ homes and business were totally destroyed. The... Continue Reading →
Earth Day & the mighty pen
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 →
Climate Change Porn
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 →
Marshall Fire Aftermath
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 →
Climate Change – Colorado’s Marshall Fire Aftermath
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 →
Climate Change demons descending
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 →
Anthropogenic Crisis – Burning Palm
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 157750 (Burning Palm) copyright 2016/2021 Douglas Stockdale - As I wrote about earlier during the LACP Exposure Weekend I had reinvested my honorarium for being a portfolio reviewer to do some networking with a few curators and gallerist that I have not had a chance to have a discussion with before this.... Continue Reading →
Vote for a Green Environment
VOTE copyright Kerry Michaels - Today the LACP Exposure Weekend has come to a close. As always, I had the opportunity to review the portfolios of a talented group of artists and photographers. And always equally inspiring for my own art work concepts, ideas and processes. Of course, those choosing to spend time with me... Continue Reading →