Ghost (Memory Pods project) 2014 copyright Douglas Stockdale Sometimes I need a kick in the butt to get myself into gear. I have been stating that I need to update my web site with more images from my Memory Pods project and now receiving the Honorable Mention at IFAC for my photography Loss from this project... Continue Reading →
Honorable Mention – IFAC “All Media 2016”
Memory Pods – Loss 2014 copyright Douglas Stockdale I received word from a couple of my friends late last night that my photograph Loss from my Memory Pods project received an Honorary Award during the reception at the Irvine Fine Arts Center reception for the "All Media 2016" exhibition. Wow! This is very, very nice.... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods – Film alternative
Empty (Memory Pods project) 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale The photograph in this post is the results from my previous two posts; Hasselblad Ready for its Closeup and, part 2. Essentially I want to see if my Memory Pod subjects look like when captured on color negative film, in this case the Kodak Portra 160. For the first... Continue Reading →
Irvine Fine Art Center – All Media 2016 acceptance
Loss (Memory Pods project) 2014 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited and honored to announce that Loss from my Memory Pods project was juried into the Irvine Fine Art Center (IFAC) All Media 2016 exhibition. The juror was Dan Cameron who most recently was the past Chief Curator for the Orange County Museum of Art... Continue Reading →
Roadside Remembrance – New Direction
Tracks (Roadside Remembrance series) copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale - Earlier this month I had a mini-exhibit at Photo Independent (Los Angeles) and subsequently posted that due to some really good feedback, that I was going to radically alter the direction of one of my in-process projects. So a little bit about that today and not that... Continue Reading →
Photo Independent – Print Portfolio progress
Memory Pods, copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale An update on my progress to prepare for Photo Independent regarding my print portfolio(s) as previous discussed. First, the idea that I had to quickly prepare a print portfolio for Photo Independent was quickly stressing me out. Needing to quickly select the prints (yikes, which ones out of the... Continue Reading →
Revising my Photoshop workflow
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 →
Captions for the Roadside Remembrance Project
A-1, Colloferro, Italy 2012 copyright Douglas Stockdale It seems to me that I have an easier time determining what I want the resulting photograph to look like than determine the title (caption). Such is the chaos of the creative process. For my roadside memorial and remembrance photographic titles I think that I have been all... Continue Reading →
Refocusing a project
Morning Shadow, Denverton, California, 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale Following up on yesterday's post with a little more information about how my Roadside Remembrance series is being reconsidered as a Black & White portfolio. This series of roadside memorials was starting to get a little traction in 2008 and I felt it had potential to go beyond the... Continue Reading →
In Passing – Lest I Forget
Nevada State Randy, Route 179, (Randy) copyright Douglas Stockdale Reading the recent (2015) October issue of PDN magazine, which is their annual photobook issue, I found myself thinking back to my real first photographic project, a series of roadside remembrance memorials. As a quick recap, it is a series that I became very fascinated by in late... Continue Reading →