December 31- I've
changed out the Europe map for the new
style photo montage. I've also taken this opportunity to collapse the two
German galleries into one
gallery to simplify things a bit (they were both small). Also updated the
Australia/South
Pacific map to the new montage style.
November 27- Started
adding Africa merchandise to the
Online Store.
October 8- Completed
Tunisia.
Africa3d.net is now largely finished. There are some loose ends to tie
up- some editorial commentary, and some video and audio, which I've yet to
process. I will do that next, but photography-wise, the site is
completed!
October 7- Completed
Libya.
October 6- Completed
Chad.
October 5- Completed
Sudan,
Central African Republic galleries.
Chad is in preview mode.
October 4- Completed
remaining
Zimbabwe galleries, and added
all Kenya galleries (not too many
photos in Kenya). Started putting up
Sudan, which consists of previews
right now, but there are not too many photos, and they will be stunning, and
will be added very shortly. The remaining galleries should go up rapidly,
as they are all rather small.
October 3- Completed
adding 3D's to the Victoria Falls
gallery in Zimbabwe- 35 more 3D's are online!
I'm starting a new feature on the Africa3d.net site with live news feeds.
So far, it's only on the Zimbabwe page, but will expand quickly to the other
main pages within the Africa sub-site, including the main African page as
well.
October 1- Completed the
(2D) galleries with the addition of
Columbiformes,
Coraciiformes,
Craciformes,
Gruiformes,
Passeriformes and
Psittaciformes.
Zambia is now complete! I will be adding some video at a later date, but
all photos, which comprise a majority of the site, are finished! I will
now move on to Zimbabwe, which due to our spending just half a day there, will
be a much smaller endeavor. Added
Zimbabwe 3D
previews, and already added a gallery of
Scenics (2D), with 18
pictures.
September 30- Added the
framework for the large set of galleries
Birds of Zambia (2D).
This are broken up into sub-galleries by sub-order to manage the large size.
So far, I've added
Anseriformes,
Bucerotiformes, and
Ciconiiformes.
September 29- Added two
galleries of Artiodactyla in the Ungulates gallery-
Artiodactyla 1 and
Artiodactyla 2.. There are a large number of them, so it's
alphabetical- Bushbuck to Hippos are in this first gallery.
September 28- Started
brining the gallery of
Ungulates of Zambia (2D). While similar to those we saw in Tanzania,
there are some different ones here as well. Due to the large number of
Ungulates, I've broken it into three sub-galleries, the
Perissodactyla, which in my case, consists of just Zebras, and which is in
place, and the
Probocsidea,
or elephants, which is also finished. Other ungulates are antelope,
buffalo, etc... Also, put up the splash screen for
Zimbabwe- the gallery that will
be coming next when I'm finished with Zambia (which will be soon).
September 27- Competed the
Victoria Falls Area gallery. 44 new 3D's are in place! Also
added 2D pictures and a description of our experience at my brother-in-laws
Archaeological Dig Site in Zambia.
September 26- Continued
adding 3D's to the
Victoria Falls Area gallery. It is now 50% done, with 22 to go.
September 25- Started
adding 3D photos to the
Victoria Falls Area gallery. This is a giant gallery of 44 3D
images, so I'm only 20% done so far. Progress should be quick as I've
gotten all the 3D's assembled already, so it's just a matter of wrapping HTML,
JavaScript, and captions around them.
September 24- Completed
the 3D gallery
Outside
Luangwa, near South Luangwa National Park. These include 3D's of our
archaeological dig with my wife's brother. Added an additional 2D gallery-
Other Scenics-
to cover miscellaneous scenic photos from our trip in Zambia (this includes many
gorgeous sunsets). Also added
Outside Lusaka,
another 3D gallery of our stay at Pioneer Camp.
September 23- Started
adding photos to the
Outside
Luangwa 3D gallery- about 25% done so far.
September 20- Added the
section for the Primates of
Zambia (2D).
September 18- Added the
section for the
Carnivores of Zambia (2D). We didn't see many of them in Zambia, so
this is a small section.
September 10- Added
Route Details (2D maps),
including GPS tracks of all we saw in Zambia. Also added a section
detailing our experience with Zambian Airways, and the airports in Zambia in
Travel by Air.
September 9- Completed my
review, with many pictures (2D), of the
Lodges we stayed at while in
Zambia.
September 8- Completed
Reptiles of Zambia (2D).
September 7- Completed the
3D gallery of South Luangwa
National Park. All 3D's are now in place.
September 6- Added
previews for the 3D gallery of the
Victoria Falls Area.
Also put up a section on the
People of Zambia (2D). It is incomplete, as I need input from the
other photographer, but my thoughts and comments are up there. Also,
partially completed the 3D gallery of South Luangwa
National Park- about 1/3 done so far.
September 5- Completed the
gallery for
Animals in 3D in Zambia.
September 2- Added
previews for the 3D gallery of the
Area Outside
South Luangwa in Zambia.
September 1- Added
previews for the 3D gallery of South Luangwa
National Park, as well as the area
Outside Lusaka
in Zambia.
August 31- The basic
framework for Zambia is in place.
I've also added previews for
Animals in 3D in Zambia.
August 27- I've completed
the
Birds (2D) of Tanzania- with
the addition of
Columbiformes,
Phoenicopteriformes (Flamingoes),
Psittaciformes, and
Struthioniformes.
With that, Tanzania is largely
done! I will of course be adding video clips of animals and perhaps some
audio, and most likely some more scenics in 2D in the near future, but it's time
to move on to Zambia! Stay tuned!
I've also put a link on the front page to the
3D Film Expo II,
which is being held in Los Angeles Sept 8-17, 2006. They are showing 39
full-featured movies and 17 shorts, all in polarized mode (no Anaglyph!).
This will be a high-quality 3D movie event at the Egyptian Theater in
Hollywood. This is not a paid announcement, because I fully support this
effort to preserve old 3D movies- I'm talking actual preservation here, not
just showing a few 3D films. They are being preserved and restored by
the 3-D Film Preservation Fund- a non-profit organization. If you can
go, or are in the region and enjoy 3D- the good kind with polarized glasses
and no headaches- go see all or part of this festival. Go to the
3D Film Expo II
site and order your tickets!
August 26- I've finished another sub-gallery of the
Birds (2D) of Tanzania- the
Passeriformes. This
includes weavers and starlings, among others.
August 24- So far, I've
finished two sub-galleries of the
Birds (2D) of Tanzania- the
Ciconiiformes, the
Coraciiformes, the
Galliformes, and the
Gruiformes.
August 23- Started putting
up perhaps the most difficult gallery-
Birds (2D) of Tanzania.
There are so many varieties, it can be hard to identify them. I have and
am doing my best to accurately identify the ones I photographed.
August 22- Completed
adding the the
Proboscidea & Hyracoidea (2D) gallery, which includes elephants and hyraxes.
This completes the Ungulates
(2D) gallery, with 15 species of ungulates presented.
August 20- Completed
adding the Ungulates
(2D) gallery. Thirteen species of ungulates are added in four
sub-galleries, split up to make the pages more web-friendly (there are so many
pictures to show). I've also finished the
Proboscidea (2D) gallery- which are elephants.
August 17- Started adding
photos to the Ungulates
(2D) gallery. This includes the vast majority of animals we saw, and is
likewise very large. As a result, I've broken it into the orders that
exists within the ungulates- and so far, I've got the
Perissodactyla- odd-toed ungulates. I've also added details of the
Flights we took in Tanzania and
Kenya and a review of the airlines.
August 15- Added a review
of our Safari provider-
East African Safaris.
August 14- Completed the
gallery Northern Tanzania in 3D.
These are the remaining 3D shots in Tanzania that do not fit into the other
galleries. I've also added very detailed maps of Northern Tanzania in a
section called Route Details. These maps are from Google Earth and have
overlays of GPS data showing exactly where we were, and I've added additional
details to help tie together with the galleries.
August 13- Completed the
gallery
Ngorongoro Crater Area in 3D. These contain 3 different 3D viewing
formats, so you have more viewing choices depending on your preference!
Also added a gallery of the
Carnivores (2D) we
saw in Tanzania. There are some really great shots in this gallery!
August 12- Started adding
images to the
Ngorongoro Crater Area in 3D. About 70% done so far.
August 10- Added the
Primates (2D) gallery to Tanzania. This contains 2D photos of various
monkeys and baboons we saw while we were there.
August 9-
Serengeti in 3D is
completed- 30 new 3D's!
August 8- Started adding
Serengeti in 3D in
Tanzania, as well as the gallery of
Reptiles (2D) that we
saw there.
August 7- Added
Trip Details of the African trip as
well as many photos and details of the
Lodges we stayed at in
Tanzania. These were some pretty scenic places.
August 6- The
Animals in 3D
gallery is complete, with multiple formats available (cross-eyed, parallel, and
anaglyph (red/blue)). Enjoy!
August 5- Added a few
Animals in 3D in
Africa. I'm trying something new- multi-format images not using the JPS
Stereo Applet I've used elsewhere on the site. This is due to Microsoft's
total screw-up with Java. Please give me some feedback on how this works
for you in the Animals gallery.
August 2- Added 3D
previews for the
Serengeti,
Ngorongoro Crater, and other
Northern Tanzanian
sites. Also, I added a section on the
People of Tanzania-
not in 3D, just a 2D human-interest gallery. This differs from other
content on my site in that I express much more personal opinions than usual,
which will be the norm in the Africa3d.net set of galleries.
August 1- Started adding
the gallery framework for Africa3d.net, my new subdomain (which is not working
just yet- you can visit from the main site or go to
Africa). So far, just
Tanzania
has been partly finished. Due to the large amount of photos taken, plus
video and a lot of animals (most of which are in 2D), I am expanding the scope
of this site to go beyond 3D, while keeping that aspect front and center.
There will be many, many 3D scenics, and 3D animals where I was able to get them
(they move a lot, pesky little things :), as well as links to other resources,
personal feelings, and even video and sounds. Stay tuned to this major new
addition to the site!
July 27- Made major
overhaul to front page- using the new Montage style I experimented with last
month in the US galleries. I waited until now so I could incorporate
pictures from my just-completed honeymoon in Africa for the front page montage.
Pictures from Africa will be forthcoming, but with 2700 of them to sort through,
it's going to take some time. In the
Space gallery, I added a 3D of Planet Earth taken from the Mercury Messenger
spacecraft during a flyby of Earth in 2005.
July 4- Made update to
Dallas/Fort Worth in 3D
sub-site to include a great new photo I took of Dallas (under
Dallas
Skyscrapers 1)
July 2- Added half a dozen
new photos in Oklahoma in the Southern US
gallery. These are photos taken on Talimena Drive. This should, for
now, wrap up the updates to the US. Stay tuned for some new updates later
in July, from an all-new area!
July 1- Added new previews
to the Southern US gallery
that are in Oklahoma. We drove over the very scenic Talimena Drive.
June 30- Completed the
Eureka Springs
gallery in Arkansas. The makeover of the Arkansas gallery is done, and
there are now 56 new 3D's for Arkansas, for a total of 72.
June 29- Added more photos to the
Eureka Springs
gallery. About 2/3 done now.
June 28- Started adding photos to the
Eureka Springs
gallery in far northwest Arkansas. About 1/3 done so far.
June 26- Completed the
Other Arkansas
gallery, which is a catch-all gallery of Arkansas- non-Hot Springs or Eureka
Springs. About 1/3 of these are from the old Missouri/Arkansas gallery,
the rest are new this year.
June 25- Complete the
Hot
Springs, Arkansas gallery, with scenic shots and details of the bathhouses
and a glimpse into perceptions of health from a century ago.
June 24- Broke Missouri and Arkansas apart to make way for many
scenic photos of Arkansas. Also, I separated
Arkansas
into 3 galleries to include subsections on Hot Springs and Eureka Springs.
June 22- Added 6 new 3D's
to the Northeast US
gallery, from the New York City area. Two of them are beautiful sunset
shots from Central Park. Some of these 3D's are unusual compared to most
of my work.
June 21- Completed the
Wineries
gallery, as well as the
Getty Museum
gallery in Los Angeles. All the California updates are done, and a total
of 94 new 3D's have been added, plus a few 2D's for extra credit. Also put
up some previews in the
Northeast US
gallery from New York City, specifically, sunset views in Central Park, plus a
few others.
June 20- Completed the 3D
Alcatraz gallery. Started putting up the
Wineries
gallery, which so far only has two vineyards in Sonoma County in it. On
subsequent trips this gallery will be expanded. About 1/3 done so far.
June 19- Started putting
up the
Alcatraz gallery in San Francisco. About 1/3 done so far. Also
I've updated the Canada navigation
page to match the new style.
June 18- Completed the Muir
Woods National
Monument 3D gallery in the California subsection, along with the
Golden Gate
Bridge 3D gallery and
San Francisco
3D gallery- which focuses on the City of San Francisco itself. I've also
updated the Texas
and Arizona
navigation pages as well, to fit with the new photo montage style I'm deploying
throughout the site.
June 17- Added 3 new shots
to Southern
California in the Santa Barbara area and 3 new shots to
Northern
California north of San Francisco. I decided to make a new look for
future geographic navigation pages, starting with the
California
gallery. Instead of a plain map with links, I created a photo montage of
the best shots for a backdrop to a translucent map, making for a much more
attractive, and fitting, entry page. I've also adopted this for the
United States map- it's
now made up of a representative composite of some of the best pictures I have of
the US. I'll be migrating this design throughout the site over the next
few months at the map-level. I won't for now change the design of the
galleries themselves (way too much work).
June 14- Added another
preview gallery of the
Wineries
area north of San Francisco.
June 13- Added previews to
a new San
Francisco gallery. As well, added previews in totally new galleries
for Alcatraz,
Muir Woods,
Golden Gate
Bridge, and the
Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
June 12- Reworked the US galleries map to break out
California into it's own subset of galleries, similar to the Texas and
Arizona galleries. This will accommodate many more pictures in more
manageable galleries. New galleries to come: San Francisco, Muir
Woods, Golden Gate Bridge, and the Getty Museum. In addition to these will
be additional new pictures in the Northern and Southern California galleries,
including Wine Country and Santa Barbara. These are from three trips made
in 2004 and 2005.
June 11- Completed a new
gallery of
Aerial Sydney, mostly taken from the Sky Tower. There are also a
couple of shots from my 1999 helicopter tour of the city. Completed main
Sydney gallery-
carved out of the old New South Wales gallery and greatly added to from our 2005
trip. I've also added another time-lapse video in this gallery, this time
of the milling crowds at Circular Quay. All the 3D's from our 2005 South
Pacific vacation that included Fiji, New Zealand and Australia are now in place.
June 10- Completed a new
gallery of our
Sydney
Harbour Cruise. All 3D's were taken from a boat and it also includes
two time-lapse video segments- one of our passage through a bridge that had to
open up for us, and the other of our approach to the Sydney Opera House (a
spectacular approach!).
June 9- Completed the update of the
New South Wales gallery in
Australia new images from the Blue Mountains. Since there were already
pictures from there from my 1999 trip, I have ripped the old gallery apart and
added the new photos into it. The same goes for the photos of Sydney that
were previously in this gallery- there will be three different Sydney galleries
as well, hopefully soon. One extra I threw into this new gallery is
another time lapse video- this one is a 12x speed-up of a gondola ride in the
Blue Mountains.
June 8- Completed the
South Island
gallery of New Zealand. There are 32 more 3D's in place, and 7
gigantic panoramas (I've tried to tread the line between giving you as much
detail as possible, yet sparing you long download times).
All New Zealand galleries are now in place! New South Wales will be
next.
June 5- Added a few more
pictures to the gallery. About 70% done.
June 4- Completed the
West Coast
gallery in New Zealand- 33 new New Zealand 3D's are in place! Started
putting up 3D photos in the
South Island
gallery of New Zealand. This gallery contains the remaining 3D's from New
Zealand, spread across the South Island, including Queenstown. This
gallery is about 60% done.
June 3- Continued putting up images in the
West Coast
gallery. About half done now.
June 2- Started putting up 3D photos in the
West Coast
gallery on the South Island of New Zealand. Just over 1/3 is in place so
far.
June 1- Few minor changes
on the site, nothing noteworthy, except:
Added
RSS feed
capability, for those of you who use that feature! You can paste this URL
into your feed reader:
http://www.3dphoto.net/3dphoto.rss I will provide more info in the
near future. You can also get the URL from the

button on the
front page. If you are using Firefox, you can add it to your Live Bookmarks by
clicking on the

button in your URL bar at the top. There is also a feed for the
Forum section of the
site:
http://www.3dphoto.net/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss that will alert
you when new posts have been made to the Forum.
May 23- Completed the
Christchurch
gallery in New Zealand.
May 22- Added more shots
to the Christchurch gallery-
about 75% done with this one. Also, included now is a video clip from some time
lapse video I shot in Christchurch. Still looking for optimum way to
present video content- I'd like to put some other time lapse videos on the site
as well. Let me know if you have any problems (it is at the
Bridge of Remembrance photo).
I have added Search capability to the website. For now, it is
on the main page only, but it will be added to the main pages throughout the
site. Perhaps the crude results page isn't as friendly as Google's results
page, but at least you now have the ability to go straight to material within
the site, if you wish.
May 14- Added a few more
shots to the
Christchurch
gallery.
May 12- Started adding 3D
images to the
Christchurch
gallery on the Southern island of New Zealand. Only 4 images so far, but
it's a start. Should be adding the others in that gallery over the next
few days.
Apr 20- Major
behind the scenes updates have been happening to to the site- I have moved to a
new server (many thanks to my previous host, Royce, for hosting this site for 8
years!). I am now hosted on
LunarPages. You
will notice faster downloads of the images as a result.
Also,
I have now added
3dphoto Forums,
an all new area of the site. Here you can read announcements about the
site, post questions, post your own 3D photos, ask for member feedback,
discuss equipment, 3D techniques, etc...
It's a whole new dimension
to the site! And, for the first 10 people to sign up and meet some
minimum requirements, I will ship a free 3D picture set from my
online store.
Mar 18- The
North Island
gallery in New Zealand is now complete. These are the remaining photos
that are not in Auckland or in Rotorua and surrounding area, and includes
perhaps the most
surreal photo I have ever taken.
Mar 17- The
Rotorua
Area gallery in the Central North Island of New Zealand is now complete.
Mar 7- The
Auckland, New
Zealand gallery is now complete.
Mar 5- Added 3D images of
the island of Viti Levu,
the main island of Fiji, and added additional photos to the original Fiji
gallery, which consisted only of photos on
Beachcomber Island,
so now my 1999 trip photos are updated with additional 2005 photos. In
addition, I've added a gallery from Fiji from a day trip cruise we took to some
Outer Islands.
Also cleaned up the Links page to other websites,
and added a few fresh ones to it.
Feb 27- Added many new
previews of Sydney and the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Due to the
number of new pictures, the old NSW gallery has been chopped into four
galleries- Sydney,
Aerial
Sydney,
Sydney
Harbour, and New South
Wales. Some of the old pictures remain in the new galleries, mixed in
with many, many new ones. For now, most shots are previews, but for the
older ones that had content already available, I've kept them available, even
though the newer content is not yet in place.
Feb 20- Added previews for
the rest of the
South Island
of New Zealand. Note: This gallery contains 7 2D panoramas as well.
The South Island is so beautiful, that panoramas are really the best way to show
it, even if only in 2D!
Feb 19- Added previews in the
Christchurch
Area and the
West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Feb 18- Added previews in the
Rotorua
area and general
North Island
of New Zealand. Also added a link to a children's educational coloring
book about Easter Island in the
store.
This is not a product of my website, but a worthwhile item by Susan Pfeil in her
upstart Professor Kiwi
educational series.
Feb 6- Started updating
the look and feel of the online store to be more
intuitive and friendly. Also added a few products.
Jan 29- Added previews of
Auckland, New
Zealand.
Jan 22- Added new previews
from our 2005 trip to the South Pacific. First previews are additions to
Fiji, including the Main
Island,
Beachcombers (where I stayed in 1999 also), and a
Fiji Island Cruise.
Will also be adding New Zealand, new Sydney and Blue Mountains in New South
Wales in the near future.
Whats
New- the 2005 Archive