Looking at one photograph at a time
For some reason this morning I had a bit of an aha! moment; that one thing that is not included in the Singular Images Press media kit for my artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, is that as a pamphlet stitch binding would resulting in a lay-flat book. The relevance of any... Continue Reading →
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow copyright 2006 Douglas Stockdale – This is Mental Health Awareness Month and good time for a shout-out that if you are feeling out of emotional sorts, then this could be a sign that there might be something you need to find out more about. The four basic mental health awareness concerns... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 122955 (Vail) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale The road trip diary continues (day one, Zion here), as the real destination for our one-week vacation in Colorado was the town of Vail. This town is really well known for it's skiing and regretfully this is the year that I not sure my legs were up to... Continue Reading →
Book-dummy, Gardening For Ordnance copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited to announce that I will be teaching my virtual book development workshop in conjunction with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) next May, 2022. This course was just announced by CPAC and its an honor for me to join this Denver organization's workshop team.... Continue Reading →
Today is about reflection as to what occurred in New York City, Washington DC and a field in Pennsylvania. Reflection on those who lost their lives during these events, both on the aircraft that were turned into guided missiles and those victims at the site of impact. These events eventually led to the War in... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale Interesting that as my eight year of photographing my Memory Pods series comes to a close, I was actually thinking that this might be the last year to photograph my subjects. Okay, phase 1 of photographing my botanical subject is finished and now into phase 2 of creatively interpreting the photographic... Continue Reading →
Well yesterday did not go anywhere near what as planned. And I might as well be clear from the get-go that the photo associated with this post, above, was not made with my new Samsung Galaxy s21 Ultra 5G; more about that in a minute. Yesterday morning is one of my walk days with this... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground series Copyright Douglas Stockdale First, I have to admit that this has been an interesting year, with the start of this horrific COVID-19 pandemic, the need to stay at home during quarantine and eliminating most social contacts. Coupled with new adventures in Zoom and other means of distant personal connections. I think we... Continue Reading →
Part of resuming my work on my Memory Pods project has been to re-examine some of the earlier photographs. Case in point is this photograph that I had titled Ghost III. In the context of the larger body of work for my investigation, this somewhat abstract photograph is a portrait of the plant without... Continue Reading →
Trabuco Flats, January, 2019 copyright Douglas Stockdale An unanticipated visual change to Trabuco Flats that I have recently notices are the winter conditions. In southern California during the winter months we gave brief amounts of rain. Which in turn creates a new look to the otherwise monotone brown landscape; green grass! (yes, we do not... Continue Reading →
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