Photographers Rear View Mirror-50 years Behind the
Deadline
Sponsorship Amount
150000
Individual Donations Allowed?
Current Sponsors
No
none
Benefits to Sponsors
Nationwide exposure as we travel the U.S.,Spain,Sweden,S Korea,Japan.Your sponsor name would be exposed at interviews,photo & book signing events, on book credits & on the website, other advertisement agreed upon.
Target Audience
35100
Media Exposure
Logo Exposure
Estimates of 500,000 would see logo as we travel the U.S.,on the website 300,000-500,000 hits, visible in book.
Is Existing
yes
Logo Appearance
Logo can be on our RV, on our website, in the book, a brochure available when we are at RV parks and tourist stops on our trip.
Logo Presentation
That would be discussed with the sponsor for their input.
Comments
Our photography is one of a kind, taken over a 50 year span, & the photographer able to go back and reshoot our 100 photos is a once in a lifetime event. The photography we have is so unique and varied it is hard to explain what a great opportunity this would be for a sponsor to be associated with this project in the time frame that is available.
Detailed Event / Project Description
Introduction to Photo Shoot Trip 2010
This photo shoot trip is designed to serve four purposes. To introduce “Winfield” as a world class photographer; to introduce people to our website and to get them to pre-register for our planned 2011 publishing of Winfield’s first photo coffee table book – “A Photographers Rear View Mirror – 50-Years Behind a Camera”; get visitors to our website to register for our FREE weekly Newsletter; and re-shoot photography to complete the book section on before and after images.
Winfield’s Photo Shoot Trip is planned to start on March 15, 2010 with he and his wife traveling by ground, air and boat starting in March of 2010 for a 6-8 month trip encompassing approximately 56,811 miles (44,642 air miles, 11,669 ground miles and 467 boat miles) to 5 Continents; 21 states in the U. S.; 10-major photo cities with many other cities in-between.
We plan to publish a weekly newsletter of our trip. Clare will write and publish this update. There will be photos that we take; “Teddy’s Corner” giving you updates on how Teddy, our cat, is taking to being in our Recreational Vehicle in close proximity to us for 6-8 months. Also a column on restaurants we eat at and their food. I am not a food critic but I do know what good food taste’s like. I am a reformed Steak and Potatoes person. I still like steaks and potatoes periodically but since my heart surgeries today I eat more vegetables and salads than I used to. I also quit smoking the day I went in for a 6-way bypass surgery in 1997. All these stories can be accessed through my newsletter. Also, since I am a Fresh Water Tropical Fish Hobbyist and have been since 1953, I will have a column on fish stores and hobbyists I meet and see their facilities. Also, a daily chronology is planned and stories of our exploits, except when there is no news because of extreme boredom or cancellation of a particular day due to “lack-of-news”. However, looking at our schedule of photos to be taken, I really don’t expect any boring days or even minutes. We will talk about Winfield’s health in his health column, since he will celebrate his 69th birthday two months after the start of this trip on May 10, 2010.
We will also have stories by one of our writers pertaining to my photos. Every photo I took during the last 55-years has a story (over 30,000) and I will tell all in our story profiles. The photo of 25-South Korean orphans taking their nap on the floor, the same floor they sleep on; the same floor they ate on; the same floor that is their entire world until they are adopted by some caring future parents. My two adopted daughters are in this photo and I intend to go back and re-shoot the same photo again over 40-years later and I don’t know how many thousands of children who slept, ate, played in this same type room. The photo of a submarine inside San Francisco Bay sailing towards the Golden Gate bridge and ultimately the freedom of the Pacific Ocean. The skipper of this sub who would not live to make admiral, can be seen on the tower giving orders to sail under the Golden Gate Bridge and the young Navy photographer standing half in and half out of that Bell Shaped 2-seated helicopter with his 8-1/4” focal length 7”X7” roll film F-56 aerial camera in his hands and with the 4X5” Speed Graphic film still camera set up for color photos sitting on the seat just behind him but safe inside the chopper. I won’t be re-shooting photos of this sub because like all the other ships who’s photos I took over that 1/2-century of photo taking was decommissioned in 1995 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day it was decommissioned. I will show destroyers and destroyer escort ships; Aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Snohomish Country – LST 1126, a world war II landing craft transport and early U. S. Navy airplanes, some of which I flew in and some of which I just flew air-to-air photography of. How about the story of when I flew aerial photos of the grocery store I worked at when I was going to high school in Alameda, California. It was Lucky Stores, Inc. located on South Shore Center in Alameda or the aerial photos of Alcatraz Island I took just months before the American Indian Movement takeover of the island in 1969. Or the aerial photos I took of Sea World in San Diego, California just after it opened and before any landscaping had been done to the park. Or the photos I took of Palomar Observatory during the early 1960’s. Part of my wanting to publish my works in this book is the fact that I have outlived most of my subjects. All the ships are gone; all the airplanes are tourist attractions or in a museum or destroyed. Coit Tower is still there standing on a hill in downtown San Francisco next to the bay. The bridges I photographed in the late 1960’s are still there maybe a little worse for wear. The San Francisco Bay Bridge went through a bad earthquake in 1989 with some damage and had to be repaired before autos were permitted to cross again. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 just months after I photographed him aboard the USS Kittyhawk, CVA-63. The photos of the missile carrying Russian ships bound for 1962. Or the Ricky Nelson show in Yokosuka, Japan. I actually talked to Ricky between sets. I don’t have these photos anymore. The unprocessed film was taken by the Public Affaires Office or by other offices because of their then security classification. But I flew and took photos on my own time during my entire career as a Navy photographer and those you will see in my book.
I belong to several National and Local Recreational Vehicle (RV) Clubs in the
U. S. and plan to join these great people during their national or regional rallies.
01) The Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) located in Cincinnati, Ohio at 8291 Clough Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio 45244; 513.474.3622 / 800.543.3622 - Website URL: http://www.fmca.com;
02) Special Military Active Retired Travel Club (SMART) located in Pensacola, Florida at 600 University Office Blvd. Suite 1-A, Pensacola, FL 32504 850.478.1986 Toll free: 800.354.7681 – Website URL: http://www.smartrving.net/id3.html - Email: rvsmarttrvl@att.net
03) Southern Oregon Special Military Active Retired Travel Club (SO-SMART)
We will be at the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) Albuquerque, New Mexico Rally at the end of March 2010. Then we will be at the Southern Oregon Special Military Active Retired Travel Club (SO-SMART) in June 8-12 at the Mt. Hood Village RV Resort at Welches, Oregon.
Finally we will be at the Special Military Active Retired Travel Club (SMART) National Muster at Entre County, Pennsylvania from September 8-12 at the Centre County Fairgrounds, Centre Hall, Pennsylvania.
Contacts will be made to the Historical Centers, Visitors Centers, Chamber of Commerce’s and Tourist Bureaus to inform them of our intent and to obtain their cooperation.
Clare and I also intend to jump (skydive in tandem) out of a perfectly good airplane to announce to the world that people can have a life after heart surgery. I first did this out-of-necessity when the RC-45J I was flying in lost one engine and seemed like it was about to loose the second engine. The pilot gave us the choice and two of the four of us bailed out. They landed the planesafely and I had to give the pilot a 5th of Whiskey for landing the aircraft safely. I, with wet regret, gave the bottle to him that night at a local San Diego bar.
Some re-shoot and new photos destined to be shown in my upcoming book, “A Photographers Rear View Mirror – 50-Years Behind A Camera”, are going to be aerial and ground and from the water photography.
Photos to be taken or re-taken are the Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico; We plan aerial photos of Alcatraz Island National Park; San Francisco Bay Area Lighthouses; Coit Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, Benicia-Martinez Bridge, San Francisco Bay Bridge, Dumbarton Bridge; cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, California and possibly Monterey and Santa Cruz also and Las Vegas, Nevada; The Mormon Temple in the Oakland, California hills; the Oakland Coliseum where the Oakland Raiders football and Oakland “A” baseball teams play; Mothball Fleet at Suisan Bay, California; Sea World in San Diego, Balboa Park, Smuggler's Cove off of Baja, California, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Airport, and Palomar Observatory located in north San Diego county; Mayan temples in Mexico; the bridges from Alameda to Oakland, California; University of California at Berkeley; Cliff House Restaurant on the Pacific Coast Cliffs in San Francisco; We will be passing through and photographing the Lake Tahoe; We plan, while attending the SO-SMART Muster at Mt. Hood to do aerial photos of Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta, Mt McLaughlin, Mt Jefferson, 3-Sisters, Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Crater Lake; we also plan a stop in Salt Lake City, Utah to photograph the Moran tabernacle in Temple Square; If possible we plan to photograph Mono Lake; We plan to photograph Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) in San Francisco and planned photo trips to each of the other 20-California Missions as well as the 17-Spanish Missions in Texas, the 20-Spanish Missions in New Mexico and the 8-Spanish Missions in Arizona; planned aerial photography of the cities of Jerez de la Frontera, Sevilla, Rota and Valencia in Southern Spain; pictures of the Hans Christian Anderson’s “Little Mermaid” Statue and parts of Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark; The Giant Buddha Statue (Daibutsu) and the Ofuna Kannon Buddhist Temple, close to the Ofuna Station both in Kamakura, Japan; Niagara Falls in New York, New York and Onterio, Canada; the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Statue of liberty National Monument and Ellis Island in New York; possibly the Greenport Tall Ships Challenge in Greeport, New York; Chief Crazy Horse Memorial statue, Mt. Rushmore Black Hills National Forest, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, Custer State Park; and Badlands all in South Dakota; Hoover (Boulder) Dam and Lake Mead located between Arizona and Nevada and the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and finally downtown Las Vegas.
In summary, I would like to invite you and your friends to join our newsletter Photo Shoot Club and see our exploits during the trip and read about us doing all these things. Go to http://www.photographersrearviewmirror.com> and join the “Follow Us on our Photo Shoot & Reshoot Trip” Team”.
