Alfred Silvester’s 1857 series of stereoviews entitled ‘Declaration of Love’ begins with a scene depicting a young woman seated at the piano. Jonathan Ross interprets the series and reveals a Valentine’s tale — not only for Victorians.
This gallery showcases some stereos I took in the capital city of Paraguay: Asunción. Stereoscopy offers a whole new perspective to look at our surroundings, in depth and in detail. These were taken with a smartphone using the burst mode feature to take sequential Left and Right images. I hope you enjoy this little tour pf my hometown!
Come join our second meeting in 2022! We will cover a broad variety of topics: vintage stereoview box sets, modern stereo photos from Paraguay and first-hand information about the world’s biggest stereo event. Isn’t it just awesome how multi-facetted stereoscopy is?
Join us Sunday, February 6th at 2:00 pm EDT / 7:00 pm GMT / 8:00 pm CET
Happy New Year to all of you! For our first meeting in 2022 we want to take a close look to our community once again. We will feature Felix Schlicht from Germany in a Photographer spotlight and then have a community slide show. Therefore we ask you to send us up to 6 of your stereo photos. Read the post for more details. Join us on Sunday, January 9th at 2:00 pm EDT / 18:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CEST
StereoPhoto Maker, a software developed by the Japanese stereo photographer Masuji Suto, made things a lot easier for digital stereo photography. Believe it or not, he is not a professional software developer! Like most of us, Masuji is just passionate about stereoscopy and is happy to help the community with his software developing skills. Curious about him? We met him for an interview.
Come join us on December 5th! We will take you to a Winter Wonderland and have plenty of time for a Community Show & Tell.
Meeting time as usual at 2:00 pm EDT / 18:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CEST!
Ladies and Gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts because we are going to embark on a trip to the Underworld! This is a series of “Modern Diableries” inspired by the original French Tissue stereo cards.
While most of the time the original Diableries were intended to be scary, my approach and interpretation on such Devilments is mostly cheerful and entertaining.
We’re going to take you on a trip to the underworld, show you where art meets reality and how to analyse a partial collection of stereo glass slides. Join our next meeting @ Sunday, November 7 at 2:00 pm EDT / 18:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CEST
Hiking offers many opportunities for landscape stereo-photography. Due to the diverse scale of the objects, from small, beautiful flowers, to trees, to entire mountain regions it is possible to take a large variety of stereo-photos. My favourite stereos are the hyperstereos of mountains.
Anyone who wants to take closeup stereo photos has to deal with the several problems. But apps like i3DMovieCam bring simultaneous stereo photography to your iPhone. This opens up the world of small animals, insects and moving objects to everyday stereo photography.
Sometimes you will get a glimpse of the individual history of your treasure and know where it was stored, wether it was looked after or long forgotten, if the owner was well situated or not, etc. For me, these stories are invaluable. As a passionate restorer, I especially appreciate viewers that have remained untouched since their last use. I carefully remove the dust of decades to reveal the original beauty of a stereoscope. Being the first one to do so feels almost like getting in touch with those who bought it a century ago. I want to take you to one of those journeys.
Make sure you don’t miss Conny Wetzig presenting her unique macro-stereos featuring insects, and Ilicia Benoit discussing her method of capturing visual stereoscopic imagery via a single photograph, taken from a single vantage point. Join us on Sunday, October 3d at 2:00 pm EDT / 18:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CEST
