Museum Exhibition

Dear Everyone,

I have been asked to supply panoramic images as backdrops for a collection of 25,000 model vehicles, which are to be displayed in cabinets in the Coventry Transport Museum here in England. www.transport-museum.com Coventry is the place in the UK where names such as Rover, Triumph, Jaguar, Armstrong Siddley, Alvis and more, were born. Sadly the last mass production car manufacturer is pulling out of the city but the heritage is good, the collection is large and well managed (they have Thrust SSC which holds the Land Speed Record).

The models will be displayed in cabinets with 3mm foamex mounted panoramas 300x1500mm curved behind them (this is a fascinating display technique because it bends the perspective back to something like its original). The cars will be arranged in the semicircular space in front of the image. We have trialed the idea and it works.

The concept has been expanded to encompass cities around the global, views that will immediately place the visitor in Paris, New York, Barcelona, etc. As we are considering vehicles it would be good to include a road but do not let that be a limiting factor, if featuring a road means we have to see the car park of Sydney Opera House I would rather not feature the road, I want the definitive tourist's view of many cities. So, I am seeking assistance from the community to source panoramic images for possible inclusion in this display.

If you feel you have something that will be of use can you please email me jpegs (please add any copyright watermarks and info that you wish), at this stage I need a catalogue pans to mull over. In addition, please advise the fee that you would charge for the use of the shots in this context, the budget is limited and may be a deciding factor. When a selection has been refined I can agree terms and request high res tiff be sent by ftp.

I hope I have covered all the relevant factors at this stage but if you feel I have missed an issue, let me know.

I am also going to post this message on PanoToolsNG

Thank you in anticipation

Ian Kerr