On the trail I used the stick-pick a lot. This device allowed me to connect my camera to my trekking pole and take pictures of myself. I discovered that my camera would take three pictures in a row if I set it to continuous shutter and set the timer. So I could get three pictures for the hassle. To avoid three identical pictures I would make funny faces and/or swing the camera around.

In doing so I often captured two similar pictures with the background very slightly offset. Well the lovely thing about that is... that's how we see! So if you trick your two eyes into seeing two slightly askew images then you get a stereoscopic or 3D image to look at. That way I get to feel like I'm back on the trail.

Here is a webpage with instructions on how to view them:
http://starosta.com/3dshowcase/ihelp.html

Hi anyone still checking this thing for updates... I'm wishing I was on the trail too now.

My trail name is Histogram or Histo for short ... no I never had mine removed ... and I don't have allergies. I study math and science and a Histogram is a type of plot used in statistics, aka a bar graph. Well I thought it might be cool to see how it would look to plot the number of miles I hiked each day. You can see the final result on the previous post.

But I wanted to watch it change and grow. So I took a picture of it every day. Yup everyday I had to remember to whip it out. While my initial enthusiasm about the idea led to my name, the duty of remembering to photograph it every day was sometimes an irritation. Some times its the silly little things that keep you going when things get tough and you are digging for one more reason to get up and walk.

I snuck in a beautiful background each day because, well, it was hard not to on the PCT. And here is the final product: https://vimeo.com/52904796