Tree Fungus at De Hoge Veluwe National Park

Hello Friends,

As I write this we've been in Wageningen in the Netherlands since Monday night. On a bus ride yesterday talking to a local resident I came to understand that Holland is not the same as the Netherlands, in that North Holland and South Holland are two of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands, which is officially called the Kingdom of the Netherlands. More detailed information can be found at https://www.holland.com/global/tourism/getting-around/information/netherlands-vs-holland.

We're attending the 2025 International Stereoscopic Union's (ISU, an organization dedicated to stereo (3-D) photography in all its forms) Congress. This year marks 50 years since the ISU's first Congress, which was held in the same city at the same venue in 1975. This is I believe my 7th ISU Congress. I held a workshop here today on making phantograms of people's hands, and I welcome to my image-of-the-week blog those who attended and signed up for it.

One of the excursions was to De Hoge Veluwe National Park, approximately a 50 minute drive from here. It's history and grounds are interesting, but I'll save that for next week or sometime soon. I found both of these fungi on the same tree, and shot down at them with my Fuji W3 3-D camera, and processed them as phantograms using StereoPhoto Maker and Photoshop.

I'll keep my rant brief today, I should be trying to get some sleep, which hasn't been easy. Everything I read about what Trump and the MAGA crowd have been doing this past week is beyond disgusting in their quest to grab, exercise, and maintain power, and re-write history, and in the process trample on many innocent people and those who oppose them.

In the meantime wishing you all well,

Barry Rothstein

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