I will offer a perspective about pictures of arrivals at OSH.

Some years ago, I flew my Globe Swift to OSH. Flew the arrival to Rwy 27, the usual right traffic. Russell Munson, the photographer for Flying magazine for many years must have been out taking photos on the arrivals because a couple of months later one of my friends stopped me and said "that's a nice photo of you in Flying." I looked at him like he had two heads and said something intelligent like "Photo? What photo?". That month's issue of Flying had a number of photos of aircraft landing at OSH among other OSH pictures, and sure enough, there I, Ann, and the Swift were. Up on a wing tip, gear and flaps down, turning base for rwy 27. Great shot. I wanted a copy for my wall.

I did some detective work and came up with an e-mail for Mr Munson. Asked what I could pay for a copy of the photo. Mr munson was very nice but explained that he only took the pictures for use in the magazine and the books that he published. The photo was not for sale. I can tell you that I would have eagerly paid $50 plus shipping for a copy of that photo. Not for sale.

So I have a coffee mug from that visit, plus the photo plaque that the good folks in the Antique Classic area make after taking your picture proudly standing in front of your parked airplane.

But I still would like a copy of that photo. And I'll bet that a bunch of other pilots would like a picture of them arriving at OSH also. Now that digital photography has made pictures essentially free, and photo printers can provide almost instant gratification, I am surprised that no one, either EAA or a vendor, has set up a booth that sells photos of individual arrivals. If one in 10 pilots buy a photo, a profit could be made. And EAA has some great photographers on tap.

Best of luck,

Wes
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