Looking at one photograph at a time
2024 Season’s Greetings (Mammoth Mountain, CA) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale – I recently framed my 2024 Holiday card artwork for my favorite family collector, which is starting to become one of my favorite holiday traditions. The base photographic image was created during a ski trip to Mammoth Mountain, located in the Sierra's of Central California, at the... Continue Reading →
Season's Greetings, (Version 2), Verso, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – I came up with what I thought would be a vice nice version of a holiday card for this year that would incorporate my latest interest in hand-sewing my prints. As you might imagine, my real intent and interest was in the design and sewn pattern... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale - Necessity is the mother of invention, which recently for me meant learning another embroidery design trick that I can incorporate into my cyanotype prints; the back-stitch. First came the concept that I was attempting to investigate. Up to now I have been using what I... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series) May 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I had posted the above image of my cyanotype print yesterday on my social media (IG and Fb) as a homage to those who served in the military during WWII about the date that began the mainland offensive invasion of France on June 6th, 1944. My... 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 →
Copyright Douglas Stockdale - Another series I am planning to continue working on in 2023 is a derivative of my Quantum Elements body of work that I started due to the isolation issues of the COVID-19 when I was in self-quarantine in 2020. As a result of a happy accident, I became intrigued to start... Continue Reading →
Metaphoric detonation, Trabuco Bombing Range copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – One of my unanswered questions while working on my project, Gardening For Ordnance, is what might it look like if one of the many various buried bombs, known as Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), were to magically detonate in front of me. What might that look like? That... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 2804 (Melting City) 2008/2021 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am very honored to be featured in today's YourDailyPhotograph with one of my surreal photographs from the Melting City series for my Anthropogenic Crisis project. This is one of the photographs that was in my portfolio for review at LACP's Exposure 2022 earlier... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 6856 (Warming Water) copyright 2017/2022 Douglas Stockdale When following the news about the climate, I will also come across something that might be a little bit broader in scope. In this case it is the recent news that the earth's molten core is cooling about 1.5 times quicker than what scientist had... Continue Reading →
Arroyo Trabuco (3121) copyright Douglas Stockdale When I was down in the Arroyo Trabuco earlier this week, I had lamented about not having my tripod. I had also stated that I bracketed my exposures since I was in the sub-1/50th of a second range (hand holding below this is problematic with a 50mm lens) and... Continue Reading →
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