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'Visual Arts in the Stereoscope: An Overview', in-person 3-D talk and workshop.
Join us with the the RPS Visual Art Group on 22 Nov at Long Compton, UK, from 2-4.30p.m. There will be a 3-D talk first, followed by a demonstration on stereoscopic photography.
events.rps.org/en/visual-ar...
Join us with the the RPS Visual Art Group on 22 Nov at Long Compton, UK, from 2-4.30p.m. There will be a 3-D talk first, followed by a demonstration on stereoscopic photography.
events.rps.org/en/visual-ar...
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
'Visual Arts in the Stereoscope: An Overview', in-person 3-D talk and workshop.
Join us with the the RPS Visual Art Group on 22 Nov at Long Compton, UK, from 2-4.30p.m. There will be a 3-D talk first, followed by a demonstration on stereoscopic photography.
events.rps.org/en/visual-ar...
Join us with the the RPS Visual Art Group on 22 Nov at Long Compton, UK, from 2-4.30p.m. There will be a 3-D talk first, followed by a demonstration on stereoscopic photography.
events.rps.org/en/visual-ar...
THANK YOU to everyone who attended our 3-D talk last night. It was a real pleasure to speak in front of such a great audience and we sincerely hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. See you soon, online or in-person, for other 3-D talks. All the best from Denis and Rebecca !!
#Halloween
#Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
THANK YOU to everyone who attended our 3-D talk last night. It was a real pleasure to speak in front of such a great audience and we sincerely hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. See you soon, online or in-person, for other 3-D talks. All the best from Denis and Rebecca !!
#Halloween
#Halloween
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !! The photos in this post were at Camden Place, where Napoleon III died on 9 Jan 1873 & where we gave an in-person 3-D talk. Congratulations to the volunteers who did the decoratin ! Don’t forget tonight's online Halloween 3-D talk tonight at 6pm GMT: us06web.zoom.us/j/3736231510...
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 AM
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !! The photos in this post were at Camden Place, where Napoleon III died on 9 Jan 1873 & where we gave an in-person 3-D talk. Congratulations to the volunteers who did the decoratin ! Don’t forget tonight's online Halloween 3-D talk tonight at 6pm GMT: us06web.zoom.us/j/3736231510...
At Camden Place, Chislehurst: “Napoleon III and his time in the Stereoscope” in the very place where the Imperial family of France spent their exile & Napoleon III breathed his last. It was such an honour to be able to share 3-D images in such glorious settings with the packed audience of all ages.
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
At Camden Place, Chislehurst: “Napoleon III and his time in the Stereoscope” in the very place where the Imperial family of France spent their exile & Napoleon III breathed his last. It was such an honour to be able to share 3-D images in such glorious settings with the packed audience of all ages.
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FREE ONLINE HALLOWEEN 3D TALK. If your “Trick or Treat” days are over but you still want to celebrate Halloween, why don’t you join us on Zoom, 31st Oct. at 6pm GMT, for a 3D talk about witches, ghosts, skeletons and little devils, with a few pumkins thrown in? us06web.zoom.us/j/3736231510...
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
FREE ONLINE HALLOWEEN 3D TALK. If your “Trick or Treat” days are over but you still want to celebrate Halloween, why don’t you join us on Zoom, 31st Oct. at 6pm GMT, for a 3D talk about witches, ghosts, skeletons and little devils, with a few pumkins thrown in? us06web.zoom.us/j/3736231510...
FREE ONLINE HALLOWEEN 3D TALK. If your “Trick or Treat” days are over but you still want to celebrate Halloween, why don’t you join us on Zoom, 31st Oct. at 6pm GMT, for a 3D talk about witches, ghosts, skeletons and little devils, with a few pumkins thrown in? us06web.zoom.us/j/3736231510...
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
FREE ONLINE HALLOWEEN 3D TALK. If your “Trick or Treat” days are over but you still want to celebrate Halloween, why don’t you join us on Zoom, 31st Oct. at 6pm GMT, for a 3D talk about witches, ghosts, skeletons and little devils, with a few pumkins thrown in? us06web.zoom.us/j/3736231510...
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Special shoutout to the Wheatstone Wind Fiddle (h/t @mcmwright.bsky.social), which is what happens when a violin and a concertina get very friendly indeed.
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From the photo here (kingscollections.org/exhibitions/...), might the idea have been that one side of the bellows would be expanding and the other contracting at any instant?
October 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Special shoutout to the Wheatstone Wind Fiddle (h/t @mcmwright.bsky.social), which is what happens when a violin and a concertina get very friendly indeed.
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#OTD Wheatstone was also a pioneer of the telegraph, inventor of the Wheatstone concertina and more. NMS's Communicate gallery has several items on display, and there's more in store (search Wheatstone here www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...) #histSTM
October 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#OTD Wheatstone was also a pioneer of the telegraph, inventor of the Wheatstone concertina and more. NMS's Communicate gallery has several items on display, and there's more in store (search Wheatstone here www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...) #histSTM
150 years ago, Sir Charles Wheatstone died in a hotel room in Paris surrounded by his family & friends.
Let’s celebrate the inventor of the Stereoscope (and of many other things) in the hope that we can do something in the near future to honour him properly. www.charleswheatstone.com
#Wheatstone150
Let’s celebrate the inventor of the Stereoscope (and of many other things) in the hope that we can do something in the near future to honour him properly. www.charleswheatstone.com
#Wheatstone150
October 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
150 years ago, Sir Charles Wheatstone died in a hotel room in Paris surrounded by his family & friends.
Let’s celebrate the inventor of the Stereoscope (and of many other things) in the hope that we can do something in the near future to honour him properly. www.charleswheatstone.com
#Wheatstone150
Let’s celebrate the inventor of the Stereoscope (and of many other things) in the hope that we can do something in the near future to honour him properly. www.charleswheatstone.com
#Wheatstone150
REMINDER ! Photo historian Denis Pellerin, from the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy will be giving an in-person 3-D talk at Camden Place, Chislehurst, on Wednesday 29 October at 2.00 p.m. Tickets can be obtained from Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/napoleon-i...
October 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
REMINDER ! Photo historian Denis Pellerin, from the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy will be giving an in-person 3-D talk at Camden Place, Chislehurst, on Wednesday 29 October at 2.00 p.m. Tickets can be obtained from Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/napoleon-i...
REMINDER ! There will be a free online 3-D talk on Sat. 18 Oct 2025 at 4p.m. BST to celebrate the achievements of British polymath & unsung genius, Sir Charles Wheatstone, the inventor of the Stereoscope, & commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-wh...
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
REMINDER ! There will be a free online 3-D talk on Sat. 18 Oct 2025 at 4p.m. BST to celebrate the achievements of British polymath & unsung genius, Sir Charles Wheatstone, the inventor of the Stereoscope, & commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-wh...
For the 150th anniversary of the death of Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the Stereoscope, the LSC is offering a discount on “Stereoscopy: Dawn of 3-D”, all about the 1st 30 years of Stereoscopy. The book puts to rest perpetual myths about the first years of stereoscopy. shop.londonstereo.com.
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For the 150th anniversary of the death of Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the Stereoscope, the LSC is offering a discount on “Stereoscopy: Dawn of 3-D”, all about the 1st 30 years of Stereoscopy. The book puts to rest perpetual myths about the first years of stereoscopy. shop.londonstereo.com.
NAPOLEON III AND HIS TIME IN THE STEREOSCOPE: In-person 3-D talk.
From Camden Place, the place where Napoleon III died, photo historian Denis Pellerin, from BMAS, will take you on a three dimensional journey through the time of Emperor Napoleon III.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/napoleon-i...
From Camden Place, the place where Napoleon III died, photo historian Denis Pellerin, from BMAS, will take you on a three dimensional journey through the time of Emperor Napoleon III.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/napoleon-i...
October 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
NAPOLEON III AND HIS TIME IN THE STEREOSCOPE: In-person 3-D talk.
From Camden Place, the place where Napoleon III died, photo historian Denis Pellerin, from BMAS, will take you on a three dimensional journey through the time of Emperor Napoleon III.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/napoleon-i...
From Camden Place, the place where Napoleon III died, photo historian Denis Pellerin, from BMAS, will take you on a three dimensional journey through the time of Emperor Napoleon III.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/napoleon-i...
Free Online 3-D Talk: ‘Charles Wheatstone’s Last Days, Funeral Services and Legacy’ 18th Oct 2025.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-wh...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-wh...
September 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Free Online 3-D Talk: ‘Charles Wheatstone’s Last Days, Funeral Services and Legacy’ 18th Oct 2025.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-wh...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-wh...
#worldphotographyday - celebrating that day in 1839 when Daguerre presented his invention to a joint meeting of the academies or Arts and Sciences in Paris, the daguerreotype. One year or so later they started taking stereoscopic pictures and this stereo daguerreotype is from my own collection.
August 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#worldphotographyday - celebrating that day in 1839 when Daguerre presented his invention to a joint meeting of the academies or Arts and Sciences in Paris, the daguerreotype. One year or so later they started taking stereoscopic pictures and this stereo daguerreotype is from my own collection.
Now online: 'Toxicity in 3-D - Arsenic and Old Lace'. Talks given by Kim Bell and Robin Canham, W. D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, Queens Uni, Kingston and the Conservation Department, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, CA, and Denis Pellerin, BMAS, UK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=76VJ...
August 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Now online: 'Toxicity in 3-D - Arsenic and Old Lace'. Talks given by Kim Bell and Robin Canham, W. D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, Queens Uni, Kingston and the Conservation Department, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, CA, and Denis Pellerin, BMAS, UK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=76VJ...
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Looking forward to popping this stereo card of Lord George Sanger’s circus procession in the stereoscope. #stereoscopyday
June 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Looking forward to popping this stereo card of Lord George Sanger’s circus procession in the stereoscope. #stereoscopyday
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St Nicholas Cliff and the Rotunda Museum by John Latham of Matlock Bath. Scarborough was photographed by many photographers! #stereoscopyday #photographichistory #Scarboroughhistory
June 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
St Nicholas Cliff and the Rotunda Museum by John Latham of Matlock Bath. Scarborough was photographed by many photographers! #stereoscopyday #photographichistory #Scarboroughhistory
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The Lovell Telescope at @jodrellbank.bsky.social today, where I photographed some great events there that mark the #SummerSolstice
Plus it’s also #StereoscopyDay so here’s a stereo 3D photo of the dish.
Here’s how to view this to see the 3D depth youtu.be/_HdoPnvChe0?...
Plus it’s also #StereoscopyDay so here’s a stereo 3D photo of the dish.
Here’s how to view this to see the 3D depth youtu.be/_HdoPnvChe0?...
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Lovell Telescope at @jodrellbank.bsky.social today, where I photographed some great events there that mark the #SummerSolstice
Plus it’s also #StereoscopyDay so here’s a stereo 3D photo of the dish.
Here’s how to view this to see the 3D depth youtu.be/_HdoPnvChe0?...
Plus it’s also #StereoscopyDay so here’s a stereo 3D photo of the dish.
Here’s how to view this to see the 3D depth youtu.be/_HdoPnvChe0?...
THANK YOU !!! Our warmest thanks to all for making Stereoscopy Day 2025 such a success ! Thank you to all the people who shared special posts on the day (and there were many), to the new major institutions who joined us in their support, to those who have supported us from day one.
June 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
THANK YOU !!! Our warmest thanks to all for making Stereoscopy Day 2025 such a success ! Thank you to all the people who shared special posts on the day (and there were many), to the new major institutions who joined us in their support, to those who have supported us from day one.
Stereoscopy Day 2025.
Behind the scenes photos taken just before the online talk "Music and Musicians in the Stereoscope". Our warmest thanks to the attendees. It was nice spending some time with you all and to see some familiar faces.
#StereoscopyDay
Behind the scenes photos taken just before the online talk "Music and Musicians in the Stereoscope". Our warmest thanks to the attendees. It was nice spending some time with you all and to see some familiar faces.
#StereoscopyDay
June 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Stereoscopy Day 2025.
Behind the scenes photos taken just before the online talk "Music and Musicians in the Stereoscope". Our warmest thanks to the attendees. It was nice spending some time with you all and to see some familiar faces.
#StereoscopyDay
Behind the scenes photos taken just before the online talk "Music and Musicians in the Stereoscope". Our warmest thanks to the attendees. It was nice spending some time with you all and to see some familiar faces.
#StereoscopyDay
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La CFRivero celebra también el #stereoscopicday en Málaga, en La Amalgama, c/Malaka 15, a las 21:30. Hoy. Nos acompañas? cfrivero.blog/actualidad/
June 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
La CFRivero celebra también el #stereoscopicday en Málaga, en La Amalgama, c/Malaka 15, a las 21:30. Hoy. Nos acompañas? cfrivero.blog/actualidad/
Stereoscopy Day 2025. On the longest and one of the hottest days of the year so far, we set off for London to give an in-person talk. Can you imagine that in our suitcases we had two projectors, a beam-splitter, nearly 100 pairs of 3-D glasses and a 2.50 x 1.50 m screen ?
June 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Stereoscopy Day 2025. On the longest and one of the hottest days of the year so far, we set off for London to give an in-person talk. Can you imagine that in our suitcases we had two projectors, a beam-splitter, nearly 100 pairs of 3-D glasses and a 2.50 x 1.50 m screen ?
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They tell me it's #StereoscopyDay today. Here is my humble contribution. #3D #stereoscopic #parallelview ( #crossview in comments )
June 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
They tell me it's #StereoscopyDay today. Here is my humble contribution. #3D #stereoscopic #parallelview ( #crossview in comments )
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Stereoscopic Photography with a Rolleiflex.
Find out how to take analogue stereoscopic photographs using the Rollei ‘Stereo Slide’ and one of the most iconic film cameras.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/06/21/s...
#stereoscopyday
Find out how to take analogue stereoscopic photographs using the Rollei ‘Stereo Slide’ and one of the most iconic film cameras.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/06/21/s...
#stereoscopyday
June 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Stereoscopic Photography with a Rolleiflex.
Find out how to take analogue stereoscopic photographs using the Rollei ‘Stereo Slide’ and one of the most iconic film cameras.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/06/21/s...
#stereoscopyday
Find out how to take analogue stereoscopic photographs using the Rollei ‘Stereo Slide’ and one of the most iconic film cameras.
stereoscopy.blog/2025/06/21/s...
#stereoscopyday