Looking at one photograph at a time
Auberge noir (Insomnia: Hotel Noir series) copyright 2010 Douglas Stockdale - After a relatively long spell, I am working on my Insomnia project again. Perhaps it is the influence of studying the photobooks of Mario Giacomelli and Kiyoshi Suzuki, while I find myself moving to a darker palate and contraster images. You probably could question the relevance as these two photographers were actively photographing during... Continue Reading →
Departure (Insomnia - Hotel Noir series), photography by Douglas Stockdale - I have developed a number of iterations of this photograph, varying all sorts of aspects related to color and tonality. Sometimes I start to wonder which one is right, while that implies that I might not fully understand the concept I am working on.... Continue Reading →
Somewhere in Transit, Copyright Douglas Stockdale With not a lot to write about at the moment, I thought today would be a good time to make a quick announcement about having survived my first year of this blog. Like my projects, writing and publishing my articles has not turned out as I had expected and seems to have... Continue Reading →
PingHu, China copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale An image that I made of the three men crossing the street in PingHu may not be part of my series I'm Just Looking (Wo Zhi Kankan). It is a picture about them looking (and of course, me looking at them doing the looking). I can not put my... Continue Reading →
Disused Railway line with car Tyre, copyright Simon Denison Simon Denison is a British urban landscape photographer who has helped shape my understanding and some of my hard to characterize feelings (remember, I'm a guy) about my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip (Update: series subsequently published by LensWork as In Passing) A quote from the Introduction of his book, Quarry... Continue Reading →
After I was back in China last month, I had received an email from Paul Butzi regarding the walled villages found in China. He did not have an opportunity to go through one while he was over in China, but had I? I knew what he was talking about, because I had seen the remaining... Continue Reading →
JiaShan, China (Just Looking series) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - My biggest complaint during this last trip into China was the lousy cold weather performance of my Canon Rebel XTi. On consecutive days I had problems with using this camera in the cold weather. It did not shut down altogether, but after a certain point,... Continue Reading →
Expressway Heights (Insomnia: Hotel Noir) 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am in the middle of a bunch of multi-tasking tasks and I am afraid that I am not getting much of anything accomplished. So I have decided to work on taking first-things-first. The first is to follow up and complete the artistic statements for... Continue Reading →
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