Looking at one photograph at a time
Untitled (Humboldt St, Cheesman Park District, February 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale There is something about the circa 1910 window casements that connects with me, probably as this reminds me so much of my Grandparents house in western Pennsylvania. A window makes a wonderful metaphoric subject, but as a genre, it is on the edge... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Humboldt Street, February 2015), copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale My first image of my Cheesman Park District series, an older area located in Denver Colorado. I am attempting to investigate this region of historic Denver as to how those who live here preserve memories through the built structures, thus indirectly preserving the past memories, while... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Cheesman Park marker) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale This last week I was on vacation with my family in Colorado mostly doing some skiing in Vail. Okay, perhaps a bit of photography too, but more about the photography in Vail in a later post. Of interest to me was an opportunity to check out the... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale As a book artist and photobook specialist, this is the time of year that I provide kudo's to all of the photographers, photobook designers, photobook publishers and the book artists who use photography as a part of their creative medium. This year I was asked by Manik Katyal, the... Continue Reading →
Untitled (#89 Memory Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale This is my day 5 photograph as a result of being nominated by Jeff Alu to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge (aka BWC) on FaceBook. For more background on the BWC and my other BWC photographs, please check out my previous post, here. Today's... Continue Reading →
I-15 Frontage Rd, Victorville, CA 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale This is my day 3 photograph as a result of being nominated by Jeff Alu to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge (aka BWC) on FaceBook. For more background on the BWC, see my previous post, here. Yesterday, I posted a photograph that I had... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale A little update on my artist and limited edition photobooks. With Paris Photo approaching in November, I noted that there is another call for book dummies (Rock Your Dummy!) by the Paris PhotoBook club to be submitted by the end of this October. Last year I had submitted the... Continue Reading →
#28 No Memory (Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I had mentioned in an earlier post today that when I converted my color photographs (RGB) in Photoshop to a Grayscale (Black & White) image that I first had to flatten the layers of the color image. I received a question from a buddy as to why... Continue Reading →
#55 Ghost Pods copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale This summer I have been continuing to explore the possibilities of my Memory Pods project that I initiated last May. The camera-phone in conjunction with the Snapseed App offered one alternative view point while the full frame digital offered a different, with the resulting collection of images looking... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Memory pods #45 - Absence of Memory pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale. While taking a diversion and playing around with the HDR mode with a number of my earlier photographs from the Memory pods project, I have been working with some darker thoughts. Which has resulted in some darker photographs, which is another new... Continue Reading →
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