Neighbors VII

“Neighbors VII” from the series Tijeras Creek, photograph copyrigh of Douglas Stockdale

A SoFoBoMo 2008 production

Best regards, Doug

Photolucida - Photo Reviews

I recently received an update from Photolucida (Portland, OR) that they are hosting a Nortwest Summer Portfolio Review. My article about the phtoto review that I participated at in Palms Springs received a lot of attention, thus I want to provide another opportunity, but regretfully it is already sold out! Bummer and I was giving this some intense consideration.

They accepted only 80 photograhers for the reviews, which will take place over two days, July 25 and 26 in Portland, OR at the Blue Sky Gallery. Of note, on their web site they do have a PDF regarding their How-to Guidebook for a Photo review, worth reading.

Also while gettng caught up on my reading back-log, I came across an article about Karen Irvine, the Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Columbia College, Chicago, IL) (aka MoCP) and she made the following comment as being a portfolio reviewer:

Well, successful in terms of it a productive exchange and twenty mintues well spent I thingk would mean that either the photographer or myself, or ideally both of us, walk away having learned something. Of course the obvious answer from my side would be to day that success means finding an artist I would like to work with. But to be honest, it rarely happens. Not to be too vague or trite, but to discuss art ina limited, closed context is often a learning experience. There have been times when the art is absolutely not interested in, but the artist is smart or insightful and we have had a good discussion.

Best regards, Doug

Observation Bench IV

“Observation Bench IV” form the series Tijeras Creek, copyright of Douglas Stockdale

A SoFoBoMo 2008 production

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Observation Bench III

“Observation Bench III” from the Tijeras Creek series, copyright of Douglas Stockdale

A SoFoBoMo 2008 production

Best regards, Doug

Observation Bench II

“Observation II” from the series Tijeras Creek, copyright of Douglas Stockdale

A SoFoBoMo 2008 production

Best regards, Doug

Observation Bench I

“Observation Bench I”  from the series Tijeras Creek, copyright Douglas Stockdale

A SoFoBoMo 2008 production.

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Introduction: Tijeras Creek

Wel, I did have plans to visit some galleries today, but then I received a nice inviation to a Mother’s Day brunch at a cousin’s, nice. So change in plans (and the two galleries that I had thought about I find are closed on Sundays)

So instead, I worked on the introduction to my book, which I will share in its entirety. Especially since I cannot get it up on my web site due to my film scanner being such a hog of my desktop system.

Happy Mothersday & some odd ramblings

Here in the US we celebrate Mothers Day, a time to recogize Mom for all that she does, which is a LOT! So let me say Happy Mothers Day to all of you Moms out there.

Since the film scanner is back in the sloooow mode, and six rolls of film are at the lab, I have some extra time this Sunday morning, so I have finally been catching up on my blog reads. I do realize that my intereset in keeping my blog up has waned a bit. I just don’t feel as compelled to write as often, but nevertheless, I am right now. go figure.

SoFoBoMo day 10

Well, its finally turning into a nice day. Yes, some wonderful sunshine.

I had decided to treat myself to some Lemon Souffle Cakes over at the local bakery since it was appearing like another overcast day. I had loaded the film scanner and was off. I was even taken in by the chance of some fresh Beignets, but reluctently, not like those at New Orleans on the square at 2am on a sultry summer night after an evening of refreshments. I realized that I was starting to squint while reading the lastest PDN and it dawned on me, it was not the intestity of the glare, but there were shadows! Yep, the morning cloud cover was burning off this morning.

Now I have two collections of negatives/prints for SoFoBoMo, those taken in the sunshine with ample shadows and the flat-light images without the sunshine. So this may be relatively easy, as I am grabbing my stack of images for the do-over.

Best regards, Doug

SoFoBoMo day 9

Yuck, another overcast day, with the exception of about 15 minutes. You would think I was back in Michigan. And now the weather forecast for the end of next week is for bright and sunny days. hooey! By that time, I will be into some serious editing or else this book will not finish by the end of the month.

The film scanner went into sloooow mode again after brisking scanning the first three negatives this morning. So after three aborts and it is still running slooooow, I gave up. grrrrr. So it is working its way through negative number ten. hmmmmdeedum and twiddle my fingers.

But so far, I do like what I see. I think that this will work out fine. I am also noticing a couple of folks who made their SoFoBoMo deadline talk about continuing to tweak their project for a phase II edition. I suppose that’s okay, in as I am planning the softcover book for my SoFoBoMo completion and then working on the hard cover Limitied Edition version in conjunction with a Limited Edition folio after.

Speaking of softcover books, the printing proof for my softbound version of In Passing did not show up today. Bummer, as I was looking forward to reviewing that and allowing it to go to print. So maybe early next week, eh?

And speaking of books, while wearing my other Managing Editor hat for The Photo Exchange, today I did a phone interview with Jonathan Brown, the owner of Leadapron, a fine art book store, with an expertise in fine art photography, located in Los Angeles. You can find the interview here. As it always happens, after the interview, I think of another half dozen questions I could have asked. But that’s okay, there will be other opportunities;- )

Best regards, Doug