VSC Meeting, April 2025

Sunday, April 6th 2025, 2pm EDT / 8pm CEST

We are pleased to invite you to our next VSC meet­ing on Sun­day, April 6th, fea­tur­ing a two-part pro­gram that promis­es both his­tor­i­cal insight and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ty engagement.

We are hon­ored to wel­come Dr. Peter Blair, author and pho­to his­to­ri­an, for a pre­sen­ta­tion on the piv­otal role Scot­land played in the devel­op­ment of stere­oscopy. Fol­low­ing Dr. Blair’s pre­sen­ta­tion, we will host our com­mu­ni­ty slideshow, fea­tur­ing stereo images sub­mit­ted by mem­bers on the theme ANIMALS. This is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to share your work, enjoy the cre­ativ­i­ty of fel­low mem­bers, and explore the beau­ty of the nat­ur­al world through stereoscopy.

We look for­ward to an engag­ing and inspir­ing meet­ing. See you on April 6th!

History

Scotland — The Cradle of Stereoscopy

Dr. Peter Blair

The com­mer­cial take-off of stere­oscopy was due to the inge­nu­ity and enthu­si­asm of Sir David Brew­ster, Prin­ci­pal of St Andrews in Scot­land. By 1856 Brew­ster could claim that 500,000 of his stere­o­scopes had been sold and 3D had become by far the most pop­u­lar for­mat of pho­to­graph. Scot­tish pho­tog­ra­phers were ear­ly adopters of the tech­nol­o­gy, with George Wash­ing­ton Wil­son already exhibit­ing stereo­scop­ic pho­tographs in 1853. His work became a bench­mark against which oth­er pho­tog­ra­phers were mea­sured. Around 200 Scot­tish stereo-pho­tog­ra­phers have been iden­ti­fied and a selec­tion of their best work will be displayed.

Community Slideshow

Animals

VSC Mem­bers

As always, our com­mu­ni­ty slideshow fea­tures stereo images tak­en by our com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers. It’s still time to sub­mit yours!

Sub­mis­sion Guidelines:

• Theme: ANIMALS
• For­mat: Side-by-side (SBS) par­al­lel view
• Max­i­mum entries: Up to two stereo images per participant
• Sub­mis­sion dead­line: April 5th
• Send your entries to: contact@vsc3d.com

We encour­age all mem­bers to par­tic­i­pate, whether by sub­mit­ting images or sim­ply join­ing us to appre­ci­ate the work of others.

Meeting Info

At the meet­ing time, click the red but­ton on vsc3d.com. Please use a nick­name cor­re­spond­ing with your sub­scrip­tion so that we can iden­ti­fy you in the wait­ing room. If you should expe­ri­ence prob­lems access­ing the meet­ing page, just send us a short mes­sage to contact@vsc3d.com and we will send you the direct link for the cur­rent meeting.

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