Looking at one photograph at a time
2024 Season’s Greetings (Mammoth Mountain, CA) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale – Tis the season for the Holiday card for the 2024 Season's Greetings! As like last year, I decided it would be fun to hand embroidery another pigment print, while this year I chose a winter landscape photograph from a 2004 ski trip to Mammoth Mountain. As... Continue Reading →
Overdue for an update. Back in April I wrote an article about how I might combine coffee toning with my cyanotype prints for my Urban Ashes project. The thinking was that the Prussian blue cyanotype print color did not entirely resonate with this particular project's narrative for me and I wanted to make this subject... Continue Reading →
All photographs are 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – On Monday, September 9th, I was just finishing a business conference call when my wife yelled up at me that there was a fire in Trabuco Canyon, here in Orange County (OC). To let you know, that's about 4 to 5 miles from our home. First bottom photo below... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series) 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – I am really excited that I was selected as a 2024 Critical Mass Finalist, as one of the 200 individuals chosen to move to the next step of judging process. This is also the second consecutive time that I have been selected as a Critical Mass Finalist, and both have... Continue Reading →
Blue Horizon No. 193104, cyanotype, 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – The last couple of months have been an artistic challenge for my cyanotype printing as well as life in general. Losing a friend who appeared to be well on the way to recovery is difficult. It keeps the other set backs in one's artistic life in... Continue Reading →
Wayne Swanson, portrait by Donna Cosentino • With the recent passing of my friend and PhotoBook Journal colleague, Wayne Swanson (1951 - 2024), I realized that I wanted to write and publish a memoriam about him to share in our on-line magazine. First was the shock of his passing, while he had been in and out... Continue Reading →
Last Iceberg (No. 9200) copyright 2022/2024 Douglas Stockdale – With today's solar eclipse and the 'focus' on our sun (and its effects, which is why a ton of individuals have purchased special solar eclipse glasses), a good time to provide a PSA (Public Service Reminder). Global warming of our blue planet is not due to any changes in... Continue Reading →
Urban Ashes (No. 094853) copyright 2022/2024 Douglas Stockdale – For my on-going environmental project Urban Ashes (yes, the project name as slightly morphed again), while evaluating some cyanotypes prints, the blue just did not entire resonate with me. Seemed too cheerful and not dire enough for my subjects. I was intrigued in how other alternative photographic... Continue Reading →
Entanglement: Transformation 43716-1, copyright 2023/2024 Douglas Stockdale – Sometimes, one thing leads to another. Maybe the endless story of creative journeys, eh? The first time I created a print weave from my Entanglement series, I did not know where this might lead to. I will have to admit, the first time I did the hand embroidery on... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series No. 0455-2) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale – One aspect of 2024 that I had not anticipated was pushing the creative envelop for my cyanotype prints and Entanglement series. Case in point, today I weaved together two cyanotype prints, same image, to create a mosaic image. While following the Alt Photo and Cyanotype groups... Continue Reading →
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