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We wish you, your families and all of your loved ones the very best for the holiday season! Doug & Gerhard (Gerry)

Scott Mathews – Grass Island, Owens River

Grass Island, Owens River copyright 2021 Scott Mathews - I find many natural landscape photographs to be very meditative in nature, especially those which are rendered in black & white.  The more abstract qualities of black & white for me allows these images to appear more poetic, which I feel is evident as in my recent...

Anat Icar Shoham – Passages as Frame Shifts

31.489400 34.937853 (Passages as Frame Shifts series) copyright Anat Icar Shoham 2021 - When I received a small portfolio of images from Anat Icar Shoham for a book workshop I was leading, the very first image I came across was this one, 31.489400 34.937853, above. At first I thought I was looking either an extremely...

Virtual Photo Book Workshops for 2022

With the recent announcement by Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC), it appears that my book development workshop calendar is pretty well scheduled for the first half of 2022. Although the virtual workshop for SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P) is already filled for January (okay, a bit over-filled but we will work with the overflow), we...

Roger Bennett – Boulder, Creek, Limekiln State Park

Boulder, Creek, Limekiln State Park, California, copyright Roger Bennett 2021 - I had recently wrote about a photographic group critique that I attend at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC) for a non-profit organization call the Photographers Exchange. We had the opportunity to actual have this meeting in person to show and discuss physical prints...

Krysia Lukkakson – Forgotten Fruit

Forgotten Fruit copyright Krysia Lukkakson 2021 - This photograph by Krysia Lukkakson is one of those beautiful and haunting black and white photographs that I just cannot manage to forget. The shallow depth fo field that seems to allow the pomegranate fruit to appear suspended in the air, as though some wood-ghosts are tossing these...

Photographers Exchange and other photo organizations beginning to meet in-person again

Photographers Exchange meeting, November 2021, photograph copyright Douglas Stockdale 2021 - Last night I had the pleasure to actually attend a local photographic critique in-person, which is a slow trend back to in-person meetings, while keeping everyone safe wearing masks regardless of COVID-19 vaccine status. This print critique was hosted by the non-profit Photographers Exchange...

Stan Kuran – Water Reflections

Water Reflections, Ralph B. Clark Regional Park, Buena Park, CA copyright Stan Kuran 1994 By Douglas Stockdale - Recently I have been working on a series of photographs that investigate aspects of particle physics and was developing some of these photographs into black and white images, when I saw this on-line photography by Stan Kuran....

LACP 2022 Exposure Weekend – Portfolio Reviews

by Douglas Stockdale - I am very honored to again join the Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP) Exposure Weekend team early next year for an intensive series of portfolio reviews. The actual reviews will occur over the extended weekend of January 27 – 30th, 2022. A great way to start the new year.Registration will open on Tuesday,...

The Botany of Living – Louise Russell and Douglas Stockdale

By Gerhard Clausing • Yesterday I was able to witness a particularly delightful set of artist talks, via Zoom, put on by the Photographer’s Eye Gallery in Escondido (which, by the way, also offers workshops and has a traditional darkroom). Featuring two artists from Southern California, Louise Russell and Douglas Stockdale, and moderated by the...