I was looking over a book called "A Thirty Year Retrospective" by Kenro Izu today. The book is filled with wonderful photographs of world famous ancient ruins and monuments (and even a few portraits). Mr Izu travels the world with a 300lb 14x20 Deardorf making photographs, he later would make large platinum prints from the 14x20 negs (a contact printing process).
Somehow me flying to Thai and carrying my lighweight linhof 4x5 with carbon fiber tripod does not seems so bad now. If Kenro can do the wonderful work he did lugging that huge camera to the the most remote areas of the world I certainly can do what I need to do with the 4x5! Heck I feel like taking my 8x10 now! Got to get me one of those 11x14s, 16x20 anyone?
