Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After responding to David personally, I figured I might as well post it to the LUG, too, as an example of some of my own Leica leanings lately. BTW - David's "longest post" makes for very interesting reading (just be in kind of a "book" mood when you start) and be sure to check out David's web photos - some great images at http://www.nasm.edu/GALLERIES/GAL104/bwings/bwswph.html ( David Almy wrote <snip>: I'd be happy to mail the poster to any Luggers who email me their snail mail address. (This offer is made only to those who have managed to read this far in what probably, at this point, is the Lug's longest single post.) Hi David - When I saw your post, my first thought was, whose life story is this anyway? Then for some reason I started reading. . . fascinating! Of course it helps that I love both airplanes and Leicas. I have even shot some 4x5 Velvia myself (no 8x10 yet), so really enjoyed that story, too. Using a van, forklift and gas truck puts a whole new meaning to the word, tripod! My own photo exhibit is going up tomorrow, albeit on a smaller scale. The classiest hotel in town, The Eureka Inn, is displaying my "North Coast Classics, Distinctive Light on Local Landscapes" as a permanent exhibit, which includes with each photo the specific driving directions on how to get to the scenes depicted. Visitors can take a travel directions brochure with them. In fact, the way I sold the whole idea of the exhibit was to help the hotel to entice people to stay an extra day and see some of our amazing North Coast California scenery. My slides are all from M6 on Velvia, which I enlarged (V35 of course) to 11x14 Cibachromes (don't you hate the word, Ilfochrome?), and a few are 4x5 color transparencies (Super Graphic with Rodenstock 135mm Sironar-N) enlarged to 16x20 (Omega D3 with EL-Nikkor 135). Both sizes are very conservative for the original film formats, and the detail on Cibachrome is wonderful. The prints will also be for sale, so I will know soon (opening is Aug 1) if any of this actually PAYS anything! Seeing about 20 prints on the wall will be very satisfying in any case, as I'm sure you are very aware. Getting out to Washington, DC for me is about as likely as you getting out to Eureka, so it may be awhile before either of us see each other's exhibits. Altho the scale of our exhibits are significantly different, I'm sure our feelings of accomplishment are very similar, so congrats on the National Air and Space Museum, keep up the great work, and yes, I really would appreciate very much a copy of the poster. Thanks in advance, Gary Todoroff