Looking at one photograph at a time
Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 This is a period for me that feels very transitional, that I am in an in-between state. I feel that I am about as far as I go with the available images for my roadside remembrance memorial series, although I still need to spend some time on the Artist Statement. I have... Continue Reading →
Indiana State Route 30 - 2007 For the image titles in my series In Passing (Updated: original working title; Bad Trip - Sad Trip), I had first started using a more documentary form of naming convention with the titles, essentially "what it is" or "where it is". After a number of emial exchanges with Colin Jago (blog: Photostream) about images that... Continue Reading →
Napa Lights (from the series In Passing) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale I was not sure how the evening photograph of the memorial from Napa would appear after making the color conversion to Black & White. The one thing that I did know is that working in Black & White would provide me more liberties in adjusting... Continue Reading →
Death Scar, copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale ...this picture that I made in Hawaii was a during my transition for the In Passing (Bad Trip -Sad Trip) project, from "what Doug saw" to what this series suggests. I think that this image better illustrates what first attracted my to begin this series. Most certainly one factor is the context... Continue Reading →
Randy, Nevada copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale - I'm about a third of the way through revising all of my In Passing (project originally titled Bad Trip - Sad Trip) images and as usually it is more complex than just deleting a layer in Photoshop. Sometimes there is a need to revaluate the entire tonal range of the... Continue Reading →
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