Untitled (MingXinPian #0984) copyright Douglas Stockdale This is a long term and a slowly developing project that I have worked on intermittently these past years. For this photograph I am investigating a feeling about a state of decline or decay. I recently had an opportunity to show this photographic print in conjunction with five similar... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Avedon’s Best Photography Books for 2014 – and I am on it!
Pine Lake, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale As a book artist and photobook specialist, this is the time of year that I provide kudo's to all of the photographers, photobook designers, photobook publishers and the book artists who use photography as a part of their creative medium. This year I was asked by Manik Katyal, the... Continue Reading →
Flow of Light Brush the Shadow – Snow Shovel
Untitled (Snow Shovel, JinShan, January 2008) copyright Douglas Stockdale I recently posting about finding one of my landscape photographs at the top of both Bing Images and Google Images. After letting the shock of recognition wear off, I went back to both with the same search term, contemporary landscape photography, and started scrolling down further. Yikes, it... Continue Reading →
Contemporary Landscape Photography – JiaShan
You might image my surprise when I was poking around Bing images last week in-between events when I did a search on "Contemporary Landscape Photography" to see what might come up and the very first image was....mine! Yep, the photograph above, Winter Field, JiaShan, that I created while staying in the city of JiaShan, China... Continue Reading →
Black & White Photographic Challenge – Day 5
Untitled (#89 Memory Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale This is my day 5 photograph as a result of being nominated by Jeff Alu to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge (aka BWC) on FaceBook. For more background on the BWC and my other BWC photographs, please check out my previous post, here. Today's... Continue Reading →
Black & White Photographic Challenge – Day 3
I-15 Frontage Rd, Victorville, CA 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale This is my day 3 photograph as a result of being nominated by Jeff Alu to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge (aka BWC) on FaceBook. For more background on the BWC, see my previous post, here. Yesterday, I posted a photograph that I had... Continue Reading →
Black & White Photographic Challenge – Day 2
Winter Fog, Trabuco Canyon, CA 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale As I posted yesterday, I was nominated by Jeff Alu to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge (aka BWC) that has gone viral on Facebook. This is my day 2 photograph. I photographed this composition in 2007 at a time that I felt that I was... Continue Reading →
Black & White Photographic Challenge – Day 1
Self portrait with Cooper, San Clemente, October 2014, copyright Douglas Stockdale Over the weekend I was nominated by a friend of mine, Jeff Alu, to participate in a Black & White Photographic challenge that has gone viral on Facebook. So for 5 days I am to post a Black & White photograph on Facebook and... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake > The Box of Dummies
Pine Lake copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale A little update on my artist and limited edition photobooks. With Paris Photo approaching in November, I noted that there is another call for book dummies (Rock Your Dummy!) by the Paris PhotoBook club to be submitted by the end of this October. Last year I had submitted the... Continue Reading →
My RGB to Grayscale Conversion process
#28 No Memory (Pods) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I had mentioned in an earlier post today that when I converted my color photographs (RGB) in Photoshop to a Grayscale (Black & White) image that I first had to flatten the layers of the color image. I received a question from a buddy as to why... Continue Reading →