Looking at one photograph at a time
I just love serendipity. While working on my other projects I had the sinking feeling that my interest in the fictional Mystery on Trabuco Flats project was not going to go anywhere. So totally on the back burner. I thought that having some night photographs might add more to the mystery to my story, but... Continue Reading →
I am continuing to study and evaluate the combination of the photographs for my project Gardening For Ordnance, with the appropriated text from the various documents about this decommissioned military site. I find this to be an interesting process. Being a Charlie Brown guy, I bounce back and forth between making the relationship between the... Continue Reading →
Over the holidays I was re-examining my 2018 project Middle Ground and thinking that since CalTrans has demolished almost all of the iconic San Diego freeway median I had photographed, perhaps this project might now warrant a second look in a gallery space in San Diego county? What I had not realized at the time... Continue Reading →
From the heart warming movie Field of Dreams; if you build a (baseball) fields, they will come. Thus the idea behind my purchase earlier this week of a brand-spanking new 24" Canon Pro-2100 printer. If I make bigger prints, I will then sell these! Up till now I mainly sell 16 x 20" prints (on... Continue Reading →
My recent batches of expired 120 film that I am using for my Gardening For Ordnance project has been providing some pretty drastic visual effects. "Off-color" transparencies would be an understatement. For last week's unaltered scanned film, here, the resulting image really did not have much yellow left in the film. The resulting visually off-kilter... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I took a day trip down to San Diego to meet up with some of my editorial and operational team at the Medium Festival. Primarily we were there to meet up with the documentary photographer Louie Palu for an interview I have in process for publication with PhotoBook Journal. Okay, we were also interested in... Continue Reading →
Pease be advised: Do not try to adjust your monitor! The colors you are looking at are indeed "unique". One of the interesting aspects of using expired 120 film is not knowing what might come back from the processing laboratory. Sometimes, as with the Pampas Grass photograph that I had discussed earlier this week, most... Continue Reading →
Gardening for Ordnance series, copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale - Yesterday, I posted my lament about living in Southern California with the constant sunny days and corresponding blue skies. A very warm and cheerful place to reside, but potentially problematic if one wants to create dark and stormy photographs. Just no clouds to add to any... Continue Reading →
I do enjoy living in Southern California. I really do. The beautiful blue sky was one of the many delights as a result of our move from the Midwest where the presence of a sunny day might be measured in terms of minutes per day. It is just that when someone suggests that there should... Continue Reading →
One of the suggestions made during my Gardening For Ordnance book-dummy review at the LACP Exposure Weekend was to consider a broader urban landscape photograph that might place the location of the decommissioned WWII bombing site in perspective. hmmmm, I am not sure now that this is something I want to include in my project,... Continue Reading →
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