Thunder Roads Magazine of Oklahoma/Arkansas May 2016 | Page 23

I guess I owe the suites an apology;
they loved it and I won the contest.
To make a photo that will blow
up to 40 feet long is a pretty good
trick. I got the owner to bring his
panhead to my shop, where I set up
studio lights and camera equipment.
I shot the bike not in one picture, but
like a panorama photo, where you
shoot overlapping photos and in the
computer merge them into one giant,
super-detailed photo. And the bus
photo has detail like crazy. You can
make out every screw-head, every
paint chip on this bike. There’s a fly
on the motor, and you can see the
hairs on its legs. It’s bizarre.
A vehicle wrap place; Outlaw
Kustomz, printed the photo and
“wrapped” the bus, and did a bang

up job of it, wrapping the bike photo
around every little curve, every bend,
over all the windows and body panels.
It was a site to behold.
The Tulsa Transit Authority
“unveiled” the bus at the Myers-Duren
Harley Davidson dealership with
much fanfare, media attention etc.
We’re checking with the
Guinness Book of World Records,
but this may be the largest photo of
a motorcycle in the world.
And then the snowball picked up
a little more speed...
The guy that owns Outlaw
Kustomz, Ryan Myers(no kin to MyersDuren HD folks) and I kept looking
at this giant photo, especially at the
engine. And that Panhead motor was
just beautiful, a work of art of there

ever was one. We thought the motor
looked good on that city bus... but
wouldn’t it look even better on the
wall of a bike shop, or somebody’s
man-cave or over a bar?
So, we’re trying a business
venture. I’m going to shoot these
highly detailed black & white photos
of the classic Harley motors; the
Knuckle-head, the Pan-head, the
Shovel-head and the Iron-head
Sportster, and Outlaw Kustomz is
going to print them as wall art. We’re
still working out details, but we’re
thinking two sizes; wall-size, (about 8’
x 8’) and then a smaller version about
4’ x 4’. We’re thinking about calling it
“Motor Walls”... www.motorwalls.com
Who knows how big this snowball
is going to get?