Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
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 →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325 version #2) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale – When I started to consider how I might increase the visual presence of my Last Iceberg series, one of the first thoughts that came to mind was what-if these Last Icebergs could provide us with an distress message as to what the full extent of... Continue Reading →
Blue Horizon (number 5505) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - Earlier this year I was in the midst of working on the Last Iceberg cyanotypes when I received my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist notification for my Entanglement cyanotype series. Full stop on the work for Last Iceberg series in anticipation that I might be in the... Continue Reading →
Sea Kelp & Sea Stacks, Bandon, Oregon, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale with exhibition photo by Kathleen Koopman, copyright 2023 A little pat on my back shout-out for gardening a Honorable Mention for one of my two cyanotype seascapes that are on exhibition at the Light Art Space exhibition, titled H2O: Shifting Currents that I posted... Continue Reading →
SeaKelp & Sea Stacks, Fall, Bandon, OR, 2022 copyright Douglas Stockdale - This cyanotype was printed on the occasion of World Ocean Day; "One Ocean, One Climate, One Future". I photographed this composition while we were in Bandon last Fall for my son's wedding. Our rental house was overlooking the beach and I could see... Continue Reading →
Book reader (San Clemente Beach) 2021 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Always a wonderful way to start the morning when you find that you are being featured in a (virtual) photo magazine, which in my case, is The Eye of Photography (L'Oeil de la Photographie) published in France, for my series of book readers observed reading... Continue Reading →
I have not posted very much since the clouds and rain rolled into Southern California as I have been experimenting a lot with solar printing and Cyanotype printing. For me at the moment, cloudy days exclude the ability to do some 'quality' solar printing. For the Cyanotype printing, I had hoped to avoid the need... Continue Reading →
This is my second cyanotype using a digital negative and the second in a series of surfing photographs, Surf-Rider II. Which is all good for my learning curve for this interesting alternative photographic printing process. While using watercolors to augment my first of this series, Surf-Rider I, it was obvious to me that in this... Continue Reading →
One of the aspects of alternative photography when using Cyanotypes is the potential for layering on additional colors using a Gum Bichromate contact printing process. This requires multiple digital negatives, getting these negatives into exact registration when printing each color (and if you don't: Opps!), a lot more chemistry and coating paper in conjunction with... Continue Reading →
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