Spooky 3D Photos

Becky and I visited Lexington and Concord yesterday, and I used the occasion to experiment with some stereo photography. Here are some photos of "Authors Ridge" in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord (not to be confused with the more famous Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York, where Washington Irving is buried). The cemetery houses the family plots of Alcott, Thoreau, Emerson, and Hawthorne, and the graves of the famous American authors from those families.

These are cross-eye stereo 3D images. I created them simply by taking one picture, moving the camera slightly to the right, taking another, and then combining them in Photoshop. To get the effect, cross your eyes until the two images "overlap" and resolve. If you like this kind of stuff, check out the Stereophotography group on Flickr.