Looking at one photograph at a time
Sea Palm I (Bandon, OR) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Wishing everyone a wonderful Prussian Blue Day for World Cyanotype Day 2026. Theme: GLOBAL BLUEPRINT – People, Place, and Environment. I choose a mix of place and environment for my cyanotype print. Sea Palm I is a unique hand-colored classic cyanotype print. Cheers! Doug
Urban Ashes (Superior, Colorado, Marshall Fire, 2022, no. 92550) Copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - Once I started to experiment with the pigment ink transfer process with inkAID film and transfer solutions, I began to anticipate how I might use this transfer printing process with my earlier alternative photographic artwork, such as my cyanotypes and initial... Continue Reading →
Domesticated Landscape, 2026 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am having a little fun with what could be considered some "non-serious" alternative photography; thermal print cameras, aka 'kids' camera. This all stated with being invited to be part of the Mute Photo Festival as one of the four jurors, then deciding I need to know what... Continue Reading →
Pink Thistle copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - When I began working on my pigment ink transfer process using inkAID, the multi-media monotype above is what I was pre-visualizing. Layering a pigment ink transfer over an acrylic or intaglio ink (or in this case, both) printed sheet. After layering on the pigment ink transfer over the... Continue Reading →
Max Planck's Magic Glasses (#9995) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2026 - When I started to experiment with the inkAID pigment ink transfer process, my interest was in transferring high contrast black and white images onto rag paper that I had previously printed with intaglio inks. Wow. I had not realized all of the potential ins and... Continue Reading →
Max Planck's Magic Glasses #3 (Art & Science) copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - While learning how to use the inkAID pigment ink transfer process, I had a number of opportunities to gain another skill set; how to patch and fix a messed up transfer print. I liken it to my darkroom printing days when at the end... Continue Reading →
___ The LandMark: Landscapes Reimagined photographic exhibition is now hanging at the OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, California), and I am really excited to have my print as the featured announcement photograph for the exhibition (below). I had planned on the ‘Winter Thistles‘ print to be 24″ x 50″ wide, while Rudy Vega surprised me... Continue Reading →
I am honored to be curated into the LandMark: Landscapes Reimagined photographic exhibition at OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, California), and really excited to have my print as the featured announcement photograph for the exhibition (below). The 'Winter Thistles' print is 24" x 50" wide. Should look pretty cool. The exhibition opens next week, August... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods: Dodho feature, June 2025 - Honored with a feature on Dodho for my Memory Pods series yesterday; a project that I had initiated over ten years ago when I was contemplating how I could metaphorically relate memory loss due to Alzheimer's Disease with the flowering phases of an Aloe Vera plant. To be... Continue Reading →
Blue Horizon (Number 193104) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale – I was honored to have my seascape cyanotype Blue Horizon featured this past week on YourDailyPhotograph.com, which is a 11 x 14" image I printed on a 16 x 20" sheet of Bergger Cot 320. I have photographed this stretch of the San Clemente oceanscape on numerous occasions,... Continue Reading →
