Untitled (Vail, Colorado) copyright Douglas Stockdale - Okay, while nursing a bum knee, which is slowly getting better (ice 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off), I decided to push ahead with my SoFoBoMo (Solo Foto Book Month) test project, now named: (drum roll, please) Ski Town. So this is making lemonade out of lemons, which... Continue Reading →
New Chinese Industrial Space – Pinghu
Industrial Park, PingHu 2008 copyright Douglas Stockdale - My assignments in China have taken me to three new industrial buildings within three new industrial parks. The facility in PingHu was probably the largest facility and in the newest & largest industrial park. I did not get into the city of PingHu, except for one large... Continue Reading →
Canon XTi – cold weather issues
JiaShan, China (Just Looking series) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - My biggest complaint during this last trip into China was the lousy cold weather performance of my Canon Rebel XTi. On consecutive days I had problems with using this camera in the cold weather. It did not shut down altogether, but after a certain point,... Continue Reading →
Artistic Statement – Insomnia: Hotel Noir
Expressway Heights (Insomnia: Hotel Noir) 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am in the middle of a bunch of multi-tasking tasks and I am afraid that I am not getting much of anything accomplished. So I have decided to work on taking first-things-first. The first is to follow up and complete the artistic statements for... Continue Reading →
Travel log recollections: JiaXing China
Untitled (JiaXing, China) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale - For me, this is a classic image that summarizes my impression of the JiaXing landscape; massive transition in the midst of very old tradition cloaked in the environmental haze. Massive transition in that everywhere there is change occurring and the change appears to be very rapid. The huge amount of construction... Continue Reading →
Travel log: camera gear I lugged
Shanghai, China (#0745), copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale - Well, I have been doing some blog reads, non-stop, since returning from this recent assignment in China. I gotta admit, I missed them! Not great internet reception in China, especially for any kinds of social media. LoL Seems that Paul Butzi just got back from China as... Continue Reading →
Travel Log: Still in Marburg
The Marburg city portage (walk-way into the old City), a photograph which was taken a couple of hours prior to my run into with the Marburg castle ghosts. The evening fog was just coming in, but it was not very dense at this time. I tried to create a little more tonal separation with... Continue Reading →
Photo of the day: Halloween Costume
I-15 Frontage Road, Victorville, California, 2007 Halloween Costume (From the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip) copyright Douglas Stockdale I have not been as consumed with taking more images for my roadside remembrance memorial series, working title of Bad Trip - Sad Trip, and in fact, I think of it as being relatively complete. I have... Continue Reading →
Photo of the day: Murrieta Dirt Path
Murrieta (In Passing series) copyright Douglas Stockdale - It was an unusual morning, being overcast at home, then on my drive to Riverside in the morning the sky turned to a light haze, which was followed by a cloud bank and subsequently open sky and then finally into a light fog. I saw there was fog also up in on... Continue Reading →
Transition
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 →