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Cameron & Company/Metreon
Contact: Gene Kahn
415.902.6448

“Environmental Journey” Aerial Photography Exhibition Launches at Metreon in San Francisco

Robert Cameron’s Exhibition, “Environmental Journey: Aerial Photography of the Pacific Rim,” opens this week at Metreon in San Francisco for a three-month run. This major show of mural-size photographs combines dramatic vistas -- viewable only from a helicopter -- with a statement about the quality of the air and water that sustains the Pacific from Anchorage to San Diego.

The fifty-five works of art in this exhibition range in size up to six feet by ten feet. They are digitally produced and printed on archival paper by Color 3 lab in San Francisco – a pioneer in this new field. Here are giant cane field fires in Maui, Hawaii, mountain climbers on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite, and a gray whale off the coast at La Jolla. Viewers can walk right up to a photograph of a waterfall with the feeling they are a part of it.

The incredible detail in these giant images results from two technologies: the gyrostabilizers that hold the camera steady in these “tripods in the sky,” and the color correction made possible by digital reproduction. The result is a visual experience that puts “giant screen TV” to shame.

The exhibition has been specially designed for the ground-floor hall at the corner of Fourth and Mission Streets, right at the entrance to Metreon. Tickets to the show are only $5 for adults and free to children with adults. An adjoining gift store offers moderately priced, full-color books from which these photographs were selected. Over a career of more than forty-five years, Robert Cameron has authored and produced fifteen books of aerial photographs, ranging from “Above San Francisco” to “Above Paris” and “Above Washington, D.C.”

Exhibition hours are 11:30am - 6:00pm, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Call 415.902.6448 for further details and to arrange group showings.