Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All, A brief announcement of sorts: There is a new exhibit open at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, entitled "Business Wings." It contains 19 large photographs, all but one of which were taken, by yours truly, with Leica equipment, per LUG standards. When I say large, I ain't kidding; among 18 along one wall, five are 4x6-FOOT digital Lambda blowups. One shot, on the opposite wall, taken with an 8x10 Deardorff and a 360/6.8 APO Symmar on Velvia, was enlarged to 20x40 (or 800 sq.) feet. This is not a misprint. Been working on the project since December. The exhibit, now up/open, will be there through May of 1999. The Museum estimates that 9.2 million visitors will wear down the carpet during that time. They even gave me two credit lines, wisely complying with my wife's iron willed demand. Yikes. I've begun a detailed "How I did it, what I learned" post for the LUG and a mini Web site also is nearly done, but thought that if any of you are going to be in Washington in the next year (or are already here), I'd mention it so that you can stop by. I'd really enjoy a critique. (And as Roger used to say, "Shields up.") Cheers, David W. Almy Annapolis, Maryland