{"id":12473,"date":"2006-07-18T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/worlds-largest-photo\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:13:00","slug":"worlds-largest-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/worlds-largest-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Largest Photo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reports that &ldquo;What is believed to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.lycos.com\/wired\/story.asp?section=Science&amp;storyId=1547155\" target=\"_blank\">world&rsquo;s largest photo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/ocregister\/homepage\/abox\/article_1210585.php\" target=\"_blank\">was successfully created<\/a> in a hangar that had been converted into a massive camera at the former <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Toro_Marine_Corps_Air_Station\" target=\"_blank\">El Toro Marine Corps base<\/a>:&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 30 people showed up Wednesday to see the fuzzy, 28-by-108 foot black-and-white image taken by six photographers from the nonprofit Legacy Project. The photo, taken Saturday, shows the control towers, palm trees and a portable toilet.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was created using the centuries-old principle of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camera_obscura\" target=\"_blank\"><i>camera obscura<\/i><\/a> after a gumball-size hole was opened in the hangar&rsquo;s wall, allowing a tiny beam of light to enter.<\/p>\n<p>The image then appeared upside down and flipped left to right on a sheath of light-sensitive fabric the length of one-third of a football field and about three stories tall.<\/p>\n<p>The cloth was exposed for 35 minutes. The photographers and 60 volunteers developed the image by moving the fabric into an enormous, 1-foot-deep tray.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty cool stuff, especially considering how they made use of the hangar before it was razed&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/photography\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115317074140387973?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reports that &ldquo;What is believed to be the world&rsquo;s largest photo was successfully created in a hangar that had been converted into a massive camera at the former El Toro Marine Corps base:&rdquo; About 30 people showed up Wednesday to see the fuzzy, 28-by-108 foot black-and-white image taken by six photographers from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/worlds-largest-photo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Photo?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}