Re: [Leica] Once in a Lifetime

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

David, CONGRATULATIONS on getting
such an impressive thing done!

(And I'll definitely go see it if I happen
 to get near Washington in the next year.)

bmw

- -----Original Message-----
From: David W. Almy <dalmy@mindspring.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 8:23 AM
Subject: [Leica] Once in a Lifetime


>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.