P3D Just a quick note

[DAN VINT <dvint@xxxxxxx>]

I just wanted to send a quick note on recent activities.

First congratulations to Boris on the Stereo competition win. As one of the
few members on this list that probably saw his show here in Charlottesville, I
thought I would give my review (sorry it is so late). Boris managed to put on
a very effective display of the variety of ways stereo images can be presented
everything from slides, analglyphs, the new inkjet method as well as his
phantogram. Of course for me the new item was the phantogram and seeing the
"fullsize image" was very impressive. I had seen the ink jet samples in
Richmond but these were new images from Boris in this technology. As far as
the actual images, many of them were seen at Richmond, but he also had pulled
some others out of his portfolio. All very impressive including his computer
generated images.

I'm trying to get some new images up on my website (I'll send an announcement
on that later) but I have been out shooting some images in a variety of
locations including: a revolutionary war reenactment, Chicap's Navy Pier,
Science and industry museum and Frank lloyd Wright sites in Oak Park and the
Robie House. I just got back from a trip to San Diego where I attended the
North American Nature Photographers Summit. Got to see lots of excelent (2d)
images from the likes of Dewitt Jones, Jim Clark, and George Lepp (first time
I had heard or seen live images for these folks - of course I have many of
their books and magazine articles). I took advantage of visting my family
there as well as attending the conference. I was also able to visit sites that
I hae photographed extensivly in 2d, but now with my Realist. I also
experimented with cha-cha images with my point and shoot as well. Anyway, San
Diego with Balboa park and the zoo are rich in 3d potential. Lots of
interesting buildings, museums, plants, statutes, and animals. I just mounted
the film that I shot and now need to scan the images. I got some wonderful
eye-to-eye closeups of hippos and pola bears in their new underwater
enclosures. I hope these scan well because they are very good in the viewer.
There were lots of flowers and orchids in bloom in the Arbiretium and around
the zoo (the zoo is also one of the largest botanical gardens as well, many
exotic plants that were starting to bloom).

The one event that I regret that I didn't have my camera for and probably
couldn't have used anyway, was a performance of Riverdance (for those who have
been liveing in a cave these past few years, this is a large 50 or so dancer
troup doing various types of Irish step dancing - chourus line with a folk
twist!) at Radio City Music hall in NYC. I was sent there for a very quick
overnight business trip and I bought a very expensive ticket but it was right
down front. I was sitting in front of the live band that was on stage with a
great variety of fiddles, drums, flutes, keyboards and all kinds of other
contraptions as well as being just above the eye level at the stage floor. I
missed all those great 3d views of forests of legs and feet as well as all the
instruments and muscicians. It was a great night, but could have been better
if I could have taken pictures!

Anyway look for a note in the near future for when I do get the new images  up
on my website.

..dan

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