Other stereo3d images are available to purchase

(as digital files and on various merchandise) at

www.fotWograf.com .

Mono 'phrag-ments' available as 2D at

www.photophrag.com .

These images are in stereo format:

A personal preference for cross-viewing means side-by-side images in this profile will be in that format before any other.

Photography:

Previously (and still occasionally) these photos were taken Cha-Cha style (one, sway or step a little to the side, then the other) and processed on PC with StereoPhotoMaker (stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/).

Now, still processing MPO files with StereoPhotoMaker (but more quickly than before), using a second-hand 'Fujifilm W3 3D' digital stereo camera.

Almost cheating, but so good for action shots (such as surf and birds on the wing) ;-) .

Stereo images are as they suggest, providing two views of the same picture to give a three-dimensional view of whatever has been photographed. The stereo picture looked at is called a 'stereogram'.

(QUICK info):

The anaglyph image requires red-and-cyan(blue)-lensed spectacles, which needs the red lens to be on the left when looking through it; some cheap cardboard 'glasses' (which are quite satisfactory for viewing), used for viewing 3-D movies in cinemas and even at home, are fairly easily available.

The L-R-L style image allows two different viewing ways in the one picture - 'parallel' and 'cross-view'.

To view parallel, look at the left-and-middle images, while cross-view (or 'cross-eyed') can be seen by viewing the middle-and-right images (these tend to provide a smaller image and so give less detail with a more removed sense of viewing).

These are often included below an anaglyph as 'Universal' stereo images.

The manner of doing this is described on Wikipedia Freeviewing.

(TL;DR):

Freeviewing

Freeviewing is viewing a side-by-side image pair without using a viewing device.[17]

Two methods are available to free-view:[18][19]

The parallel viewing method uses an image pair with the left-eye image on the left and the right-eye image on the right. The fused three-dimensional image appears larger and more distant than the two actual images, making it possible to convincingly simulate a life-size scene. The viewer attempts to look through the images with the eyes substantially parallel, as if looking at the actual scene. This can be difficult with normal vision because eye focus and binocular convergence are habitually coordinated. One approach to decoupling the two functions is to view the image pair extremely close up with completely relaxed eyes, making no attempt to focus clearly but simply achieving comfortable stereoscopic fusion of the two blurry images by the "look-through" approach, and only then exerting the effort to focus them more clearly, increasing the viewing distance as necessary. Regardless of the approach used or the image medium, for comfortable viewing and stereoscopic accuracy the size and spacing of the images should be such that the corresponding points of very distant objects in the scene are separated by the same distance as the viewer's eyes, but not more; the average interocular distance is about 63 mm. Viewing much more widely separated images is possible, but because the eyes never diverge in normal use it usually requires some previous training and tends to cause eye strain.

The cross-eyed viewing method swaps the left and right eye images so that they will be correctly seen cross-eyed, the left eye viewing the image on the right and vice versa. The fused three-dimensional image appears to be smaller and closer than the actual images, so that large objects and scenes appear miniaturized. This method is usually easier for freeviewing novices. As an aid to fusion, a fingertip can be placed just below the division between the two images, then slowly brought straight toward the viewer's eyes, keeping the eyes directed at the fingertip; at a certain distance, a fused three-dimensional image should seem to be hovering just above the finger. Alternatively, a piece of paper with a small opening cut into it can be used in a similar manner; when correctly positioned between the image pair and the viewer's eyes, it will seem to frame a small three-dimensional image.