Walking were it might be “Hazardous”

Signage, Arroyo Trabuco trail, January* 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While walking the Arroyo Trabuco trail I have noticed a number of really deteriorated signs with a wire mesh that appeared to have covered the missing signage. All of these were in really bad condition, thus I could only speculate what was there. This seemed to provide... Continue Reading →

WARNING!! UXO

UXO sign, Plano Trabuco Target Area, January 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While on one of my morning walks, I came across a posted sign for UXO that I had not realized was on the Arroyo Trabuco trail. A nice bit of serendipity as photographing this walking project reminded me of another photo project; my Gardening for... Continue Reading →

Morning walk – Life style changes

Crystal Cove, morning December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier I expanded on how my morning walk has ventured into the "wild side" as I am now going off-road onto the neighboring nature trails (okay, maybe this photograph above from walking on the ocean beach is not really the "wild side", so read the earlier posts).... Continue Reading →

Morning walks – staying off the grid

Tijeras Creek Trail, December 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Earlier I had discussed how my morning walks have taken a bit of detour off into the "wild" as a trade-in for the neighborhood sidewalks and my usual route for the past many years. After a number of experiment/play photographs documenting my walks with my mobile... Continue Reading →

Christmas Card Time of Year

Mammoth, 2004 copyright Douglas Stockdale It tis the Christmas season! Which also means creating the annual Christmas card to send out with our good wishes for the holidays to our extended family. So ensues the annual rite of selecting the Christmas appropriate photograph, then off to Costco for bulk printing and finally the weekend of... Continue Reading →

MoPLA submission: Political Satire

Middle Ground, San Diego, June, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale -  A quick update; last night I did make my MoPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) submission and as anticipated, I went with the theme of Political Satire for my Middle Ground urban documentary project. Besides the theme, I needed to place this photographic project in... Continue Reading →

San Diego walk-about in North Park

While down in San Diego's North Park region for the Medium Festival I had a chance to join John Gossage as the two of us did a local walk-about around the neighborhood near the Lafayette Hotel. We had just finished a rambling hour and half "interview" that I published in The PhotoBook Journal when he... Continue Reading →

L.A. Street photography last weekend

Los Angeles street graffiti 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale  While in Los Angeles this weekend to lead my Intro to Photo Book Design workshop at LACP, I thought it pure serendipity that some street graffiti of a shadowy book reader would be right in my pathway. Especially after I had posting a couple of photographs on... Continue Reading →

Ciociaria in FineBooks & Collections magazine

Copyright 2017 by Journalistic, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC Through serendipity I recently came to know of and receive a review copy of FineBooks & Collections, a quarterly published by Journalistic, Inc. out of their Chapel Hill, NC offices. As you might imagine the magazine reports on all things related to “Fine” Books, Manuscripts, and other published... Continue Reading →

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