Looking at one photograph at a time
....seems that one project series is the food for thought that can generate ideas for another series. So now I am now considering another series that resulted from a current series. Am I clear??? Okay, here is what has recently happened: First, I found that static landscape images are not working for me as much any more. ... Continue Reading →
...Last week I was working my way through the changes to my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, eliminating the diffussion filtering and slowly updating all of my back ups, etc. Also a heavy travel week for my client projects, but as so happens, one door opens to another. I take a local toll road for... Continue Reading →
Roadside Gully, Nevada copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale It is Memorial Day here in the U.S., a day we set aside to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in what they believed in. Traditionally this day is about those who perished in war and in many ways, about those who survived the war to come back another... Continue Reading →
Fading Memories After a lot of consideration, I have decided to eliminate the diffusion effects from images of the Bad Trip - Sad Trip series. The final catalyst for the decision came as a result of the drive-by image for the Presistent LA memorial. What I now understand is the emotional effect that these road side memorials... Continue Reading →
Last night I finished the first pass on the non-diffused version images of my Bad Trip - Sad Trip series. So I am evaluating them against the other versions of the same images. hmmmm But today, I need to meet with a client, but the good news is that I have another opportunity to work on a... Continue Reading →
I-5 Triplets copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale I have a very nagging issue. With my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip I have added a new visual element to these images and one that I am not fully reconciled with. Each image has the foreground, if not the entire image, with a large degree of diffusion that... Continue Reading →
For the Three Children While in the progress of writing my statement for my project Bad Trip - Sad Trip, a very sad event just occurred at my Freeway exit, when three very young children were accidently killed. I did not know the family but they lived a couple of minutes down the road in an... Continue Reading →
Fading Memories The working title to my project is "Bad Trip - Sad Trip", a project title that changes a little each day. While I was in Shanghai last month, I was trying to have a "chop" or stamp made for this project title. It does not translate easily, and as close as we could get... Continue Reading →
Randy Looking back, I have always been thinking in terms of groups of photograhs, mostly thematic landscape groups. Occasionally I will fnd that I am interested in a particluar group of images that have a stronger unifying "glue" and then I begin to group these together as a series. Then I read the artilce (seems like most have)... Continue Reading →
Monrovia Canyon, Spring Okay, to my point that I was trying to make yesterday (I think that folks at WordPress must have thought that I needed an extra day to reflect on this subject). I do title or name my photographic images. There has been some recent discussions as to whether naming or titling should be needed, required... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 