Larry McManus

Larry McManus is one of the most talented large format aviation artists and photo realistic aviation artists in the industry. He specializes in large format, detailed fine art wall images. He is an award winning professional aviation photographer and graphic designer with over fifty years of experience. His aviation prints have been published and sold around the world, and they're currently represented by photo houses and galleries in New York, Spain, England, Colorado and California.

For several years Larry has been creating amazing, large detailed historical images for The National Museum of World War II Aviation flying collection located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We are now offering these images for sale to the public for the very first time.

There are no shortcuts in creating a final large format photo illustration. Larry starts by editing the shots down to the ones that will be used in the final master image (usually around 6 to 10). This is where his background as a designer/artist comes in. The final 2GB master image can take forty hours or more of painstakingly detailed work to combine all the photos, re-illustrate parts of the plane and scene, add reflections, take out the landing gear, mask the plane and seamlessly integrate the plane into the background. The final stage is to color correct and balance the contrast in the final image.

The final image is then printed on special Fuji Crystal Archive and Kodak photographic papers with a fine luster finish, and finally, Larry individually signs each one.