Looking at one photograph at a time
Life in the slow lane, Southern California, copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale Yes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So this may or may not develop into a full project, but at the moment I am reacting to this current experience. I have an assignment in San Diego that requires me to frequently drive down... Continue Reading →
Copyright 1994 (6th printing, 2013) Bruce Barnbaum Bruce Barnbaum’s The Art of Photography, An approach to Personal Expression, which was first published in 1994, is a photographic book that comes up frequently as a resource for photographers who make submissions to LensCulture. Thus as a submission reviewer for LensCulture and if I was going to... Continue Reading →
Urban Tree, Spring 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Perhaps like Edward Steichen in his later years, I find myself photographing a backyard tree, as I had posted earlier here. Perhaps this could develop into a photographic project, but for now, I am content to think of this as a pleasant on-going series. Cheers
Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, California, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale In my last post discussing my evaluation of a new work flow for Photoshop CC, what was implied, but not really stated was that one of the key CC attributes under evaluation was the conversion of my color digital photographic files to Black and White... Continue Reading →
Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, California, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Late last year I moved from Photoshop CS3 to the Adobe Photoshop subscription CC (aka the 2015 version). A bit of new CC changes were in the way the RAW Browes/converter looked and functioned; a few of the controls were not so obvious to obtain... Continue Reading →
San Diego, California, January 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale As I posted earlier about making local day trips this year, I was just outside of San Diego for a meeting and while waiting for everyone to show up, I did a brief walk-about. Signs, as photographed most poignantly by Walker Evans in the 1930's, continue to fascinate me.... Continue Reading →
Newport Beach, California, November 2015 copyright Douglas Stockdale Today is the first day of Spring, so time to say goodbye to old man Winter! For me, that means that I need to also say goodbye to the winter photographic weather, such as this day back in November that we were down in Newport Beach waiting... Continue Reading →
RSM CA January 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I have to admit that on rainy days, especially in the morning when the available sunlight casts some interesting shadows, I enjoy photographing the reflections on my back patio. First, I have always been drawn to wet reflections as a subject for a long time, while realizing that... Continue Reading →
I-5 Rest stop, near Oceanside, CA 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Unlike my earlier international travels as part of my day-job, my recent trips are more about a series of local day-trips either driving down to San Diego or up to Los Angeles. Both of these locations, as well as many of the places in between,... Continue Reading →
Vail (Lionshead) CO February 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Wow, where in the heck did February go? Well one thing we did was our annual ski trip to Vail, Colorado, which allowed me to capture/create the photograph above. So that essentially took care of a week and half driving to Vail, then down to Denver for... Continue Reading →
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