P3D What I Did on My P3D Vacation

[Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Highlights of the last non-internet-accessible week.

- I received my first SSA folio, as a member of the Gamma Circuit.  I
have gone since NSA 1994 without seeing the stereo photography of
someone besides myself first-hand.  This quenched a long dry spell. 
If you are a beginner like me, consider joining one SSA circuit as
soon as you can.  You will see what P3D talks about, in original form,
by people who have been doing it for a long time and a short time. 
You will receive loving criticism and inspiration.  You won't spend
much money.  You will have fun. In my first folio, I got to enjoy G.
Themelis' "Hi, Kitty!" (high-depth close-up), Dale Walsh's "Train
Trestle & Waterfall, Letchworth, NY" (lower-depth scenic), Wolfgang
Sell's "Mission San Xavier" (very slight depth, with delicious
lighting and color), and many more.

- I found a copy of Herbert McKay's 1951 book "Three-Dimesional
Photography" in an unplanned bookstore visit, at a decent price.  Just
had photocopies of selected chapters before.  I forgot that he singles
out only one photographic subject for special treatment, in a chapter
(10) all by itself: "The Nude in Stereography".  A good part of the
chapter is his intense railing against the prudish types who are
horrified at the presentation of the "undraped" figure.  His treatment
of the subject is feisty and out of all proportion to the topical
scope of the rest of the book.  Interestingly, the chapter has no
helpful illustrations.  Talk about protesting too much!  Too bad he's
not around to enjoy P3D.
(If you want to see some good 6-legged nude studies, check out a copy
of the current "Stereoscopy" for Andrea's mantis macro article.  Her
photo composition survives the indignity of low-quality black & white
reproduction pretty well!) 

- I found an entire 2 rolls of processed and cut, but unmounted film
chips in my film sorter box.  Forgot about them.  Now I have more new
stereographs to look at. 

That's all.

Bruce.



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