Memory Pods #074252 2021copyright Douglas Stockdale - This question, when is an artistic series complete? was one of the many questions that Brooks Jensen, editor of LensWork, asked me in my very first interview. It is a question that as you can imagine that has stuck with me. As background I had submitted my Roadside... Continue Reading →
Shutter Speed experimentation
As I announced last week in conjunction with my purchase of a 55mm extension tube for my Hasselblad, its's spring, plants are starting to bloom and that it's also Memory Pods time of year again. While discussing this project during my artist talk in March in conjunction with the exhibition of this body of work... Continue Reading →
Hasselblad 55 extension tube
Spring is here and it is time for me to start my eighth season working on my Memory Pods series, especially since my back yard Aloe Vera subjects are sprouting their bloom stalks (see below). In 2016 I had acquired a 32-E extension tube (32mm) for my Hasselblad with the 120mm Makro lens. After using... Continue Reading →
Southeast Center for Photography – Flora
I am very delighted to have my artwork Inspired from my Memory Pods series juried into the Southeast Center for Photography's thematic exhibition Flora by Wendi Schneider. This is a really a very nice validation of this particular artwork, which was recently featured in my solo exhibition of the Memory Pods series at The Photographic... Continue Reading →
Artist talk – Memory Pods exhibition
Douglas Stockdale, Ellen Friedlander & Beatta Bosworth photo by Donna Cosentino, copyright 2021 There is an Artist talk, virtual on Zoom, tomorrow, February 25th, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (PST), and there is still space available, with the sign-up here. Louise Russell, Donna Cosentino, the Executive Director of The Photographer's Eye gallery and I will be discussing... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods – The Photographer’s Eye gallery exhibition
Yesterday afternoon and into the early evening The Photographer's Eye gallery hosted the opening reception for my solo exhibition of my Memory Pods series in conjunction with the solo exhibition of Louise Russell's botanical studies, Ways of Knowing. As as evident in the lead-in photograph above, we were all wearing masks and social distancing, which... Continue Reading →
The Photographer’s Eye – Memory Pods exhibition – New dates!
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my solo exhibition at The Photographer's Eye gallery in Escondido (San Diego County) was delayed by one month. The new exhibition dates are; February 20th - March 20th, 2021. I will be exhibiting thirteen images from my Memory Pods series. Concurrently Louise Russell’s botanical photographic studies from her families historical San Diego... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods exhibition being rescheduled due to COVID-19
Angst copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I had the good fortune to announce in October that my Memory Pods series is going to be featured in a solo exhibition at the Photographer's Eye gallery in Escondido next January. Now the next wave of COVID-19 is impacting just about all of California and we are now back... Continue Reading →
Diary; July 16th, 2020 – Memory Pods
The fifth year of photographing my botanical subjects that comprise my Memory Pods series has somewhat drawn to an end. I now have another small collection of dried twigs and seed pods to play with later this year. The flowering/seeding cycle for my backyard plants starts sometime in March and ends towards the end of... Continue Reading →
Preparing a print for a new home
I am in the midst of preparing one of my Bewilderment photographic prints for a new home, courtesy of Los Angles Center of Photography's (LACP) Artsy.net exhibition. The exhibition ran through June 30th, that I announced earlier. This is one of the smaller print in an edition of five and the image size is 7" x... Continue Reading →