Looking at one photograph at a time
Reminder that Blurb is in the midst of their Photography.Book.Now judging and concurrently they have the "People's Choice" Award. So if you have not voted for your favorite book yet, and you really like my mine, please vote for Insomnia: Hotel Noir here. Best regards, Doug
I think that I have made a successful next step in publishing my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir, which is to have a book query acknowledged and a request for a formal book submission. One big goal for Insomnia: Hotel Noir was to have it published by a traditional publisher. And one of the advantages of the... Continue Reading →
JiaShan boatman, 2008 copyright of Douglas Stockdale - While I was working my way through the first edit of my photographs for the Chinese Picture Postcards project, this photograph above just jumped at me as the image that could be my potential photobook cover. One potential for this project is a series of diptychs, one of which will be a classic China photograph... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Jerry Burchfield I have found myself very interested in a very old photographic technique that is as old as photography itself. Because making contact prints of objects on photo-sensitive paper was the very first photographic process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841, which I wrote about here. Revisiting Talbot's... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright of Douglas Stockdale I just completed my 2009 Critical Mass submission with the photographs from my project, Insomnia: Hotel Noir. A photo story that I use 36 photographs to tell and then I have to distill that down to 10 images for my submission. The 10 photographs are here, with the book cover (above) as my... Continue Reading →
Copyright Douglas Stockdale I am continuing to think about what I saw in China over the nine months that I was there. China is a place that is in a rapid transition to try to become "modern", and at the time, they had a ton of money to throw at their public projects. And I think... Continue Reading →
Having received my production proof of Insomnia: Hotel Noir, I think that this project is now "in the bag". I still have some images to save into the submission format for Critical Mass, but I find myself emotionally moving on. So that takes me to what project do I want to develop next? I think that... Continue Reading →
Insomnia: Hotel Noir copyright 2009 by Douglas Stockdale I just announced on my Insomnia: Hotel Noir blog that I published the book with Blurb over the weekend. nice. And this morning I received back some nice comments from David Maisel regarding my review of his book, Libraries of Dust, which I just published on The... Continue Reading →
SideGate from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir It looks like I should be able to make the July 15th deadline for my Blurb book submission, as I just loaded this photograph, SideGate, as a full bleed image into my Booksmart page. That leaves just one more photograph to go, and I have already completed most of the... Continue Reading →
AwayStation from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir Well after a little too long of a hiatus, I have found my Insomnia files that seemed to have been crawling around in the garage during the studio re-model. Well, I could not find them, and I certainly would know where I had stored them, eh? I think the... Continue Reading →
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