Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
I am very pleased to announce that my hardcover book In Passing will continue to be available at the 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, OR. This is the first gallery bookstore that one of my books is available at. nice. So now I need to add this information to my web site and figure how to continue to promote... Continue Reading →
When I signed up for SoFoBoMo 2009, I had no idea what my photographic project was going to be. So it was a DaDa moment and I just arbitrarily made up a weird title as a place holder. Hopefully no harm done, eh? And perhaps today is a convergence of ongoing thoughts and random occurrences.... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, Wayne's comment regarding my article about the Swallows Day Parade as a potential new "series" has led me to further redefine my intent with the use of the word "series". Why and how I use that word to characterize a group of photographs. Which is a pretty good idea before I stand before the 60 or so folks at the LBCC PhotoFest... Continue Reading →
Two Little Gunslingers, San Juan Capistrano, March 2009 photography copyright of Douglas Stockdale Sometimes it seems that when I start thinking about taking photographs, I start thinking about them in the context of creating a series. Which was the case today at the annual San Juan Capistrano Swallows Day Parade. This was the second year... Continue Reading →
JiaShan Waterway with Hutong Boat photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale Last night we had the annual print exchange at the monthly Photographers Exchange meeting at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, which was a lot of fun. I donated a small limited edition photograph of JiaShan Waterway with Hutong Boat that included my personal chop mark (chop mark not... Continue Reading →
Oceanside photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale After the trip to Portland last weekend, I was really enjoy the SoutherCal sunshine. Today, we had a chance to meetup with some family from Florida and Kansas who were staying at a time-share in San Diego. So we met about half way in Oceanside, which with the sunny... Continue Reading →
Transitional from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograph copyright Douglas Stockdale It is nice sometimes when you get an opportunity to work on a single task but accomplish two things, what we would call a 2-fer. Which was the case as I was completing my book workshop presentation for Portland in about a week. In... 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 →
In Transit, photograph by Douglas Stockdale First, because of a really nice suggestion, I am going to provide my working titles for my images on this journal. Just do not hold me to them, okay. While I was journaling about my series Insomnia, one of my questions was when and where does the disassociation and the realization of being separated really... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 