Looking at one photograph at a time
Beach Study, Crystal Cove State Park, December* 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While working on my next beach study for my black & white challenge, I started to see something interesting in the abstract shapes. Somewhat like finding faces or animals in the cloud formations. When I did a 180 degree inversion of the image, I realized I... Continue Reading →
Signage, Arroyo Trabuco trail, January* 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While walking the Arroyo Trabuco trail I have noticed a number of really deteriorated signs with a wire mesh that appeared to have covered the missing signage. All of these were in really bad condition, thus I could only speculate what was there. This seemed to provide... Continue Reading →
Tijeras Creek trail December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Realizing that I am... 1.) continuing to take morning walks and... 2.) I bring a camera to document some aspect of this experience, I... 3.) realize I have a formal photographic project in process and (finally).. 4.) have given it a working title: Path to Somewhere. Thus... Continue Reading →
Tijeras Creek Trail, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Earlier I had discussed how my morning walks have taken a bit of detour off into the "wild" as a trade-in for the neighborhood sidewalks and my usual route for the past many years. After a number of experiment/play photographs documenting my walks with my mobile... Continue Reading →
Christmas card, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Wishing everyone the very best for the holidays and a great New Year! Although we celebrate Christmas, we want to extend warm wishes to you for however you celebrate this time of year. My discussion about the development of our annual Christmas card can be found here. I also... Continue Reading →
Morning Walk, Tijeras Creek, Orange County 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale This past week I decided to change-up my morning walk. Instead of traversing the local neighborhood sidewalks I ventured into the adjacent park and the dirt paths. I realized this was an opportunity to exercise my experiment/play practice in conjunction with my Samsung S5; so... Continue Reading →
Seaweed, Newport Beach, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend I had a chance to leisurely walk the beach in a California State Park located just outside of Newport Beach, CA. This was a little confirmation that I still find myself drawn to creating black & white photographic images. Although resembling a study with a... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, San Diego, June, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I have been giving some thought to a MoPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) submission for my Middle Ground project. Which I need to sort out quickly as the deadline is December 5th. Yikes! One submission category is Host Space Exhibitions and for that submission it... Continue Reading →
Seaweed, San Clemente beach, June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A month ago I was discussing about my on-going summer beach series that I was posting on Instagram and when I was looking at the resulting print from this post, it appeared kind of "crunchy" (below). The foreground where the seaweed was has some odd halos and the... Continue Reading →
Seaweed, San Clemente beach, June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of my recent experiment/fun projects has been to investigate photographic possibilities at the beach, which regretfully as a genre is a mine field of cliche photographs. So rather run from the obvious as I attempt to skirt around these cliches, the rather wonderful aspect of... Continue Reading →
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