THE DIGITAL RAMBLER
Old digital photographs
by Rick Doble
PLEASE NOTE: This page is very old. I put it up 14 years ago and updated it until 8 years ago. Since many sites link to this page, I do not want to take it down BUT to see my current work please go to my main page at: www.rickdoble.net





These digital photographs were taken with a
Sony FD73 and Sony CD100 and a Casio QV-770 digital camera

thumbnail cover, Experimental Digital Photography book by Rick DobleNEW BOOK!
Experimental Digital Photography by Rick Doble
A complete illustrated how-to guide (Sterling Publishing)
See Rick Doble's two other books by major publishers on digital photography
Career Building Through Digital Photography for high school students
Everything Digital Photography a general introduction


Welcome Internet Surfer

This is a site of unmanipulated digital photographs created with the Casio QV-100, Casio QV-770 and a Sony FD73 digital cameras. Any pictures that look manipulated were achieved with basic digital "darkroom" techniques. I did nothing fancy.

I will photograph anything and everything that I stumble across, that creates a striking digital image. What I show here will be fresh and new, intimate, in-your-face, candid, naked, whimsical, experimental and spontaneous. These photos may be realistic or abstract or coherent or incoherent as my mood shifts.
Note: The photos in the animations were not manipulated but simply put into a motion sequence.

All photos will be carefully edited and selected. This site has been designed to load very fast.
Since this is a labor of love, I will make no specific commitments. However, if you like what you see here now, then return every 3 months or so for fresh new pix.
The digital camera has allowed me to merge my 31 years experience in photography, including 15 years as a professional, with my 17 years experience in computers.
See background material for more information.

Go to my
Almost 700 digital images!
Digital Visuals
site to see a full listing of my visual work
on the Internet.





NEW: SUMMER 2003
Major Online Exhibit

MUSIC & MUSICIANS

Rock and Roll, Electronic and Rave
Heavy Metal, Folk, Blues, Cajun, and Beach Music
--- 108 digital photographs ---
--- including 16 animations ---
--- musicians playing ---
--- audiences responding ---
--- dancing to electronic music ---


SPRING 2003

SPRING RAIN 5

-- 34 digital photographs --
Exhibit features night rain on a car windshield
part of an on going series of photos about the seasons



WINTER 2003
Major Online Exhibit

PAINTING WITH LIGHT
the new expressive capability of
digital photography
by Rick (Richard) Doble, M.A.C.

www.rickdoble.net/paintingwithlight
Click Here to Go To the Exhibit

BREAKING THE CHAINS
OF TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY:
Going beyond the realistic image
with basic camera controls
*not* computer manipulation

Over 300 images demonstrating how photography can expand its imagery
-- plus tech notes and essays about the subtleties and relation to modern painting and art


CHRISTMAS 2002
Entire site now has 1000+ digital images online



Largest exhibit and sharpest night pictures yet
NEW: Christmas Figures & Lights for 2002
--54 photos--





Christmas Lights for 2001
--21 photos--





Angel and folk art
in a yard.
--20 photos--





Buildings and trees
outlined in light.
--12 photos--





Huge country installation
covering a house and field.
--20 photos--





Various displays
that I happened across.
--30 photos--



NEW: SUMMER 2002
Now over 1000 digital images online



GONE FISHING
 A celebration of summertime
Silhouettes, figure studies
and candid photography
-- 50 digital photographs --



See these exhibits from summer's past


POOL PATTERNS
--- 28 pictures ---
-- 4 animations --
The swimming pool
at a vintage motel
creates unusual patterns
and colors.


LIGHTS REFLECTED IN WATER
29 digital photographs


SUMMERTIME
37 digital photos, 9 animations
fireworks, lightning, Ferris Wheels
and more


SPRING 2002

Spring Rain Abstracts
4th year of this continuing theme
part of an ongoing series about the seasons

NEW

Spring Rain Abstractions 2002
Window and windshield rain drops
-- 17 digital photos --



Spring Rain Abstractions 2001
 -- 12 digital photos --
Spring Rain Abstracts 2000
-- 18 digital photos --
Spring Rain Abstracts 1999
-- 25 digital photos --



WINTER 2002




Twilight Time
Twilight Time
Heavenly shades of night are falling ...(The Platters)
--- 48 digital photos ---


Self Portraits in Motion
Self Portraits in Motion
These blurry and dreamy self portraits
were taken with a lot of movement
-- 41 digital photos --



AUTUMN 2001



NEW!
New photos have been added from last year's Halloween:
masks, wild costumes and a Halloween bonfire.


Halloween
a photo essay
-- 57 photos --





Bonfires.
It's a fall tradition. Feel the warmth.
-- 32 photos --




SUMMER 2001

POOL PATTERNS

 --- 28 pictures ---
-- 4 animations --
The swimming pool at a vintage motel creates unusual patterns and colors.



SELF-PORTRAITS
Explorations in digital photography

Self Portraits
Under Neon Light

--- 20 still pix ---
-- 6 gif animations --
 Neon light distorts, colors and emphasizes.



Xtreme Self-Portraits
26 pix + 6 animations

shadows
Xtreme Xpressions
Street lamp shadows
 33 photos


Impossible
Self-Portraits
20 pix + 6 animations

tinlnd02.jpg
My first
self experiments
12 photos

tshdow05.jpg
Shadows and pieces
of shadows
11 photos

See this online site about self-portraits throughout the history of art. My site is included as one of the links.
http://www.gis.net/~scatt/artist_self_portraits06.html


AUTUMN 2000




Ferris Wheel Fantasy
-- 52 images --
unmanipulated digital photographs
all effects achieved through subject and camera movement
digital photography does strange things
to moving images




SUMMER 2000


Lights Reflected in Water
29 digital photographs




Summer Time
and the living is easy
37 digital photos, 9 animations
fireworks, lightning, Ferris Wheels and more



WINTER + SPRING 2000



Television Fantasia
27 still pix + 9 animations




WINTER DRIVING
NEW: 30 photos
and animations of
driving in the winter darkness.




FALL 1999




CURTAINS & BLINDS
curtains
 WHY CURTAINS?
---20 photos---
a favorite subject
of painters
in their folds, fabric
and bright patterns
inside and outside mingle
a meeting place
for light



NEW ILLUSTRATED ESSAY:
Is digital photography
the new expressive
visual art?




PREVIOUS EXHIBITS


"I see those carny lights!"
---21 photos---
experimental digital photography
at a fall carnival




NEON DREAMS
---25 photos---
a study of neon lighting.





Crossing the Neuse River at Twilight

Animated digital photography:
Crossing the Trent River at Twilight
Please be patient. This takes about 2-3 minutes to load.





Sites in 24 countries
(over 400 links)
have featured, reviewed or linked
to my combined art sites;
here is the complete list.




Essay: Thoughts About
Using A Digital Camera
By Rick Doble

Doble's article about digital photography
has been reprinted on six different sites.
The AMERICAN GAZETTE at CollegePark
(for college students and college newspapers)
Global Living Diary of Digital Art
Log Cabin Chronicles | May 1999

--- also published at these locations
but no longer available online ---

Vanguard Online (United Kingdom)
Scrape Magazine
ARTPRESS: Postmedia (Italy)



Rick Doble's art work is included in
the Orlando Museum of Art:
Digital Americana Exhibit
Art+Technology 98


Go to my
Almost 700 digital images!
Digital Visuals
site to see a full listing of my visual work
on the Internet.


Thoughts about the future of art in the 21st Century
The philosophy behind these photos
and other artistic creations
is explained in the following working essay
by Rick Doble.



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I will be adding new work on a regular basis
Naturally any comments you would like to add would also be appreciated

STUDENTS, TEACHERS, SCHOOLS, ZINES, ARTISTS, MUSEUMS, ETC.
click here to send me an email message.
I am very open sharing my work and
to collaborating with others


Special Listing of Links & Comments
from Teachers & Students
To & About this Site.


SELECTED MAJOR SHOWS AND PUBLICATIONS
OF DOBLE'S WORK

NOW ON EXHIBIT
 Prints of Doble's snowflakes
International Centre for Life
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
http://www.centreforlife.co.uk
---------------
Coming Soon:
Doble's snowflakes and comments
Projekt on the Cultural History of the Crystal
Vienna, Austria



Display of Doble's work at the Cameron Art Museum

PREVIOUS MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Cameron Art Museum (Wilmington, NC, USA), 2002
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland), 2002
The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (Australia), 1999
The Omaha Center for Contemporary Art (Nebraska, USA), 1999
The Orlando Museum of Art (Florida, USA), 1998
Greenville Museum of Art (North Carolina, USA), 1995

PUBLICATIONS OF DIGITAL ART MATERIAL
Essay Published: Life Imitating Art, a newsstand magazine (USA), 2002
Review: eDigitalPhoto, a newsstand magazine (USA), 2001
CD cover: Rock group - Lorna (Nottingham, UK), 2000
Symposium and book: Aixois d'Art Contemporain (France), 1999
Editor's Choice Award and Review: Netweek Magazine (Australia), 1999

PUBLICATIONS OF OTHER MATERIAL
Two dramatic monologues published in the anthology:
Millennium Monologs, 95 contemporary characterizations for young actors,
Edited by Gerald Lee Ratlif, 262 pages, $15.95, Colorado Springs: Meriwether Publishing Limited, 2002.
NOTE: My drama site gets about 10,000 hits a year.
To see my complete set of my dramatic monologues go to:
www.rickdoble.net/drama



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© Copyright 2003 by Richard deGaris Doble
All rights reserved.