Queen of Stereo Photography

Wendy Whaley and Derek Lang at Bill Wrigley's party.

I met Wendy a while ago. Other than the fact that she's way cute (and unfortunately seeing someone - d'oh), I remembered her because of her stereo photography interest and the fact that she owns a Realist 3D camera. There aren't that many women in Toronto that are that cool. Or perhaps I'm just not looking hard enough.

In this shot Wendy and I are posing for Darryl, who shot this image using the cha cha method. That's where you take two pictures seperately, one right after another (usually by shifting you body weight - like you're doing the cha cha). A shot for your left eye and a shot for your right eye. The pictures were taken with my D70 and flash. I was actually surprised that the SB-800 (nikon's speedlight) was able to recharge so quickly as Wendy and I had to remain still between pictures.

Note: the picture was photographed by Darryl Gold (in case you didn't get that)

The Gladstone Speakeasy

Emmanuel Lopez and David Brown at the Gladstone Speakeasy.

After a short introduction to 30s fashions, Emmanuel and I went over to the Gladstone Hotel to see this month's speakeasy art and schmooze with the artsie types that were there. The photo above was taken using my 1951 Realist with Ilford black and white film. There was an annoying scratch across the entire film leaving the dreadful horizontal lines cutting across their stomach area.