Alpine Pass Airbus A220-100 · Wing view
The acrylic print is made in Germany, your photo sealed behind gallery-grade acrylic glass.
- Glossy and Deep: The acrylic glass deepens the blue in the shadows of the ridges and lets the snow shine.
- Razor-Sharp Details: Printed at full resolution, so the ridges and the panel lines on the wing stay crisp.
- Ready to Hang: The hanging system is fitted on the back, so the picture sits slightly off the wall.
The fine-art print is made on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, a 325 g/m² paper with a barium sulphate coating.
- Darkroom Character: The baryta coating gives the paper the silk sheen and fine texture of a classic darkroom print. The snow stays bright, the shadows of the ridges deep.
- Razor-Sharp Details: Pigment inks on bright white paper keep the ridges, the panel lines and the lettering on the wing sharp.
- Ready to Frame: A white border on acid-free, museum-quality paper: 1 cm on 20 × 30, 2.5 cm on 40 × 60, 3.5 cm on 60 × 90 and 5 cm on 80 × 120 cm. Shipped unframed, ready for the frame of your choice.
Four sizes in the original 2:3 ratio: 20 × 30, 40 × 60, 60 × 90 and 80 × 120 cm. Fine-art prints ship unframed. Acrylic glass arrives ready to hang. The signed edition, Positive Climb, comes in 80 × 120 cm only.
Shipping is included in Germany and the rest of the EU. Printed to order in Germany and shipped by parcel service. From order to your door it takes about 3–5 working days within Germany and about 4–8 elsewhere in the EU. A fine-art print in 80 × 120 cm takes about 9 working days within Germany and 11 to other EU countries. All countries and special cases are on the Shipping page. If you need a print by a certain date, write to me before you order. If your print arrives damaged, email me within 14 days of delivery with your order number and two photos, and I’ll arrange a replacement or a refund.
Manufacturer
Made to order by Saal Digital Fotoservice GmbH, Zeppelinstraße 36, 91187 Röttenbach, Germany (www.saal-digital.de) or by WhiteWall Media GmbH, Europaallee 59, 50226 Frechen, Germany (www.whitewall.com).
Seller and contact in the EU
Aaron Püttmann – PilotstoriesArt, Alt-Praunheim 53, 60488 Frankfurt am Main, Germany · hello@pilotstories.art
Safety
Acrylic glass prints are heavy, especially at 60 × 90 and 80 × 120 cm. Hang them with screws and wall plugs suited to your wall and to the weight. Carry and unpack them with both hands and hold them by the edges. Keep packaging material away from small children.
Care
Dust acrylic glass with a soft, dry microfibre cloth; for marks, use a little clean water. No alcohol, glass cleaner or abrasive cloths. Hold fine-art paper by its edges. Hang prints out of direct sunlight and away from heaters.
Alpine Pass
The story behind the frame
I won this flight. Zurich Airport ran a competition in 2018, and the prize was a seat on a special flight over the Swiss and Italian Alps, flown for the view alone.
A Saturday in December, fresh snow on every peak.
On a December afternoon the light comes in low from the side, and every ridge throws a long shadow. The wing of the A220 reaches out over the Italian Alps, the winglet points at the peaks, and the wing skin picks up the blue of sky and snow.
The details
I sat at a window over the wing, the 28 to 70 mm zoom at 36 mm, stopped down to f/10 so that everything stays sharp, from the window to the last ridge. The wing runs through the whole frame and leads the eye to the winglet. Behind it the ridges stack up, the valleys already in shadow, the peaks still in the sun.
When I took this, the type had carried the Airbus name for a few months. Until the summer of 2018 it was the Bombardier C Series. The wing is carbon fibre, built in Belfast, 35.1 metres from tip to tip, and Airbus gives the windows as 28 by 41 centimetres, the largest on any single-aisle jet. Good news for everyone who books the window seat.
This one is for everyone who goes quiet when the Alps appear under the wing.
From the window seat, December 2018
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