Recently I was in the Yucatan on vacation. About halfway through I started taking photos with the CrossCam app. Here is a selection of the best photos I took.

A stereoscopic photo requires taking two pictures, far apart, to achieve a stereoscopic effect (i.e. the illusion of depth). Typically these photos are taken with a setup where you have two cameras attached to a pole, and they are activated simultaneously.

While my Galaxy S23 actually has three cameras1, they're too close together to properly capture the stereoscopic effect.

Fortunately, you can get around this by taking one photo, and then walking two or three steps to the right, and then taking another photo. This takes some practice (and means that you can't take photos of moving subjects). The CrossCam app does most of the work of aligning the photos so that they look correct when viewed in stereo. These photo pairs were taken with a distance wider than the inter-eye distance, to exaggerate the depth.

On the beach in Sisal:

Restaurants managed these beach parasols and would take food orders

Roadside cenote:

Looks like the entrance to a dungeon
This was taken while standing on the last rung of the ladder before it entered the water, the water was very clear, but it makes the depth confusing

Various photos at Chichen Itza:

View down into a much larger cenote in Chichen Itza

Photos taken in Izamal:

This church was built on top of a pyramid during the colonial era. The streamers were moving in the wind, causing the disagreement between the two views.
Looking down on the terraces on the pyramid in the center of Izamal
View of a street from the side of the same pyramid

Various market photos:

In Merida, the market stall would close their rolling shutters at night. In more commercial areas, the streets were lined with this type of store. This photo was taken on the outside of a large market complex called "Mercado Lucas De Galvez."
Caged birds in the live-animal section of the market
In the back of a bulk candy store, not the same market as the above photos

Other miscellaneous photos:

View into a church in Valladolid
Entryway to a busy restaurant in Merida, "El Lagarto de Oro". Generally I found restaurants with good Google reviews disappointing.
Church courtyard (different church)
One of the most striking stereoscopic photos
Graffiti at night in Merida
Disney characters seemed quite popular in the Yucatan

  1. Telephoto lenses for various zoom levels. It might be possible to take stereoscopic macro photography with these though, if you compensated for the various zoom levels.↩