Red Spider Lily at Daio Wasabi Farm

Hello Friends,

After the recent International Stereoscopic Union's Congress in Japan, Betsy and I had the pleasure of joining Takashi Seketani and Hiro Nakamura of Japan and Hermine Raab of Austria for a few days in the mountainous region of Nagano. A popular tourist destination in Nagano is the Daio Wasabi Farm, a vast, beautiful working farm. Free admittance, and ots of good photo opportunities. What we didn't spend getting in we more than made up in their gift shop.

Pictured here are some red spider lily shoots, one of the flowers, and me shooting a phantogram of the shoots. Credit Takashi with the shot of me with Hermine's legs in the background. All three shots were taken with Fuji W3 cameras, and the two I shot of the shoots and the flower were surrounded by frame sides for phantogram processing.

I used StereoPhoto Maker to make the anaglyphs (for red-cyan anaglyph glasses), and the three each showcase a different style of anaglyph. The top image of shoots has a lot of highly saturated green from the shoots, which tend to show best with a "dubois" anaglyph. The middle image of the flower has so much red to it that only Jim McManus could make a decent anaglyph from it, but not wanting to bother Jim, I chose a "half-color" anaglyph, which shows far less retinal rivalry of the red. Takashi's shot of me at them bottom has an excellent range of colors that work very well in a "full color" anaglyph.

Speaking of spiders, there were a bunch of big juicy ones hanging out in trees along the river bank there. If you don't suffer arachnophobia, email me back and I'll send you a couple of macro 3D spider shots I took there.

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