Last year was interesting in that I found myself a little overwhelmed with maintaining my web-journals and other photo-groups and then pulled back. Then one thing led to another. I then jumped back into the thick of things by startinga blog for our monthly photo group called The Photo Exchange. And I realized that I needed to get to more photographic... Continue Reading →
Designing Full Bleed PhotoBook pages
Yesterday, I had provided a very brief overview about my earlier bias against full bleed photographs in a photobook and some reasons why my opinion about full bleed photographs have now changed. I am actively designing my photobooks with the intent of using full bleed photographs. As Martin pointed out in his comment yesterday, after I decide to use... Continue Reading →
Full Bleed Photobook pages
Away Station from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograpy copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the interesting internal changes that have arisen from my recent book reviews is my complete reversal on the use of full bleed photographs being in photobooks. Up till last year, I have realized that I was a bit of a purist (also read... Continue Reading →
Triptych photographs
California Aqueduct, Pearblossom Highway, CA photograph copyright of Ann Mitchell Ann just sent me the announcement about her pending exhibit in San Pedro for a new body of work called American Triptychs. Which by the way, I enjoy a lot. But viewing her triptych's created my own emotional response regarding my earlier attempts at creating a project using triptych's, my Chinese... Continue Reading →
Insomnia – Ten images still to go
Expressway Room from the project Insomnia; Hotel Noir photograph copyright 2009 Douglas Stockdale Seems like I figure out one image for my project Insomnia and I end up needing to change two others. But I am slowly making some headway and almost down to single digits for the remaining images. And in the process, two images that I... Continue Reading →
Insomnia memories
Some additional fine tuning and tweaking of this photograph over the last week for the Insomnia project. Best regards, Doug
Insomnia Nightwalking
Nightwalking from the project Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale
Insomnia Nightscape
Nightscape from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir - photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale
Entrance to Insomnia
Entance from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir - photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale
Foundations folio Introduction completed
Weathered Rock, CA photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale Just a quick note that I finished the last draft of the revised Introduction for my Limited Edition folio, Foundations. Okay, now I need to print everything for the folios themselves. Now and then, I find myself thinking about grouping all of my landscapes photographs together for a... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 