The Legacy Project aims to accomplish exactly this. Members of the project are photographers who want to not only capture the largest photo but also capture and preserve a part of California's history.

An old hangar has been turned into the biggest camera that will capture an image of the former El Toro Marine Corps Station using the principle of camera obscura.

The base was decommissioned in 1999 after more than fifty years of service. Now that Lennar Corp. has bought the land, the entire place will be turned into a development that will include a museum district, suburban homes, a sports complex and a 375-acre park.

Since 2002, the Legacy Project has taken more than 80,000 photos of the old station to document the transitions it has been going through. The next biggest project now is to take a photo with a panoramic view of the old station, with a 33 x111 ft piece of white cloth covered in light-sensitive emulsion (20 gallons of it) acting as a "negative."

The fabric needs to be exposed for up to 10 days which will then be developed using 200 gallons of black-and-white developer solution and 600 gallons of fixer in a huge tub of pool siding.

This attempt to take the world's largest photograph with the world's largest camera (which will also be included in the Guinness Book of World Records) will end when the old hangar will also be torn down and the entire Marine Station will be gone for good.