English Ivy

Hi All,

This plant may look pretty exotic, but having submitted a 2-D image of it to the app Plant Net, it turns out to be: Hedera helix, the common ivy, English ivy, European ivy, or just ivy. This was in a residential neighborhood in Travemunde, Germany. A strong 3-D subect for one of my macro phantograms, it was shot with a Panasonic Lumix GX7 with 3-D lens, and using frame sides for phantogram processing.

An interesting image, but this one landed on "Jim's B-list" and as such didn't earn a place in Macrophant 3D, our new book coming out in mid December. To see more images that didn't quite make the cut, click here. Also on the book's website are some example images that did make the cut both in anaglpyh and for free-viewing.

If you choose to order Macrophant 3D, use promo code 25 and you'll get a copy delivered for just $25 (USA only), and additional copies for $20 and $1 shipping.

We live in very strange times, still in the Trump presidency, but I'm hopeful that before long we will be able to put some of it behind us. Just 46 days until the Biden inauguration, time is moving with the fluidity of quick sand. Trump continues to cry about the election he says was stolen from him, and maybe he actually believes it. His enablers remain silent or support his claims, despite knowing how pathetic they are. Profiles in courage this is not.

I've long felt that the most accurate measure of Trump's damage will be in the number of deaths he causes by his actions. These are picking up at a tragic, shocking pace, especially in states that heavily supported him, largely by people who avoid wearing masks in the name of their freedom as Americans. He could have gone a long way to rectify his horrible administration by taking the advise of medical experts, regularly wearing a mask, social distancing, and encouraging his followers to do so too. 100,000 to 200,000 or even more people will have lived to see 2021, but it just wasn't in him to do it. Now he's salting the earth trying to make the transition to Biden's presidency all the more difficult and costly for the American people.

It is heartening to know that better leadership is on the way, and that maybe, maybe, before too long we'll manage to put the threat of Covid 19 for the most part behind us and return to something like the lives we knew before. Eating in restaurants, going to movies, hugging, just hanging out with friends at ease is a fond memory.

I suspect that if you've read this far, I'm just preaching to the choir. I'll gladly continue to mask and distance for as long as it takes, and I know that if you've read this far, so will you.

Keep safe,

Barry Rothstein

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