On the way to mother's day out class - 3 yr old Anna: "What's Daddy doing today?"
Elise: "He's at work."
Anna: "What's Nana doing today?"
Elise: "Well, she's at her work, too."
Anna: "What's Papa doing today?
Elise: "Papa's talking to some people at a radio station about a very important project he's working on."
Anna: "We should pray for him."
Elise: "Okay." and she prays aloud that the meeting would go well and the radio people would catch the vision for the project and agree to help promote it.
Anna: "Amen!"
I know others were praying as well, but how can you lose with the faith of a child on your side? We've seen it before. Children just don't know any better than to believe their prayers will be answered. As we get older we tend to over think things or let our senses convince that faith just isn't reasonable. Children don't have that problem, and I've been amazed sometimes to watch adults pray about something, and nothing happened until their children prayed, too.
Anyway, the meeting went well. I didn't want to name the station until after I knew for sure they were on board with the project. The local Renda Broadcasting affiliate, KOMA, did catch the vision for the Portraits of Hope project and agreed to help promote it. I'm not sure at this point if the promos will run on their sister stations, KOKC, KMGL, and KRXO. But they will promote the premiere of the display. We're working on the timing and location for the premiere.
So, for the next few weeks, I will continue to photograph cancer survivors, and I'll be contacting area businesses and asking them to contribute.
With the radio station on board, the promotion for the project is significantly increased, as well as the doors to get the display into some key area businesses and malls, increasing the value of sponsoring the project. In other words, the businesses that sponsor the project will get significantly more recognition. Some on the promos on radio. They'll get even more recognition by the number of people who will see the display (where there will be a list of the sponsoring businesses) at the premiere and at the other locations where it will be displayed.
There will be different levels of sponsorship. The goal is to raise enough support to more than cover the cost of the project. Any money received over the cost will be donated to Stephenson Cancer Research Center. (Costs include creating the display and the finished, framed images, and providing each survivor with a print of their portrait.)
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Imagine
I was blown away by this video - "A Day Made of Glass" from Corning on the SchoolTube.com website. The imagination and creativity that went into this is amazing and inspiring. I don't know how far away this technology is, but sci-fi future is becoming closer to reality. (Makes me think of the Star Trek IV movie where Scotty picks up the computer mouse and says, "Hello. Computer?".)
Can you imagine the applications of this in the photography industry for presentation and distribution of images?
http://bit.ly/oO7Xkq
Can you imagine the applications of this in the photography industry for presentation and distribution of images?
http://bit.ly/oO7Xkq
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Portraits of Hope
I have an appointment with a radio station tomorrow. The program director seems genuinely enthused about the Portraits of Hope project. He even said there may be an event coming up in late Spring that they could tie it to and kick it off. That's what I'm praying for. Please join me in this. Pray that they really will catch the vision for it and get on board to help launch it.
With radio backing it, it will increase the value of supporting it. Local businesses who contribute will not only get recognition in the display and promotions that I do on Facebook, blog, and Twitter, but also in the radio promotions. They will be able to view it as a more effective advertising expense, and write it off on their taxes that way as well. This should help them feel more free to contribute, which will make the project a more effective fund-raiser.
In addition, if it can be tied to a specific event, and the launch of the project be highly promoted through a medium such as radio, it will make it even more appealing to area business and maybe even malls, to set up the display in their business and promote the fact that the display is now at their location. It should draw traffic into and benefit their business. And, since I will donate a portion of the proceeds from any portrait sessions booked from the public display of the photos, that will make it an on-going fund-raiser. I really want to give cancer as big of a kick in the teeth as I possibly can. So, I'm really praying the pieces of this project all come together to make it as big and successful as it possibly can be.
With radio backing it, it will increase the value of supporting it. Local businesses who contribute will not only get recognition in the display and promotions that I do on Facebook, blog, and Twitter, but also in the radio promotions. They will be able to view it as a more effective advertising expense, and write it off on their taxes that way as well. This should help them feel more free to contribute, which will make the project a more effective fund-raiser.
In addition, if it can be tied to a specific event, and the launch of the project be highly promoted through a medium such as radio, it will make it even more appealing to area business and maybe even malls, to set up the display in their business and promote the fact that the display is now at their location. It should draw traffic into and benefit their business. And, since I will donate a portion of the proceeds from any portrait sessions booked from the public display of the photos, that will make it an on-going fund-raiser. I really want to give cancer as big of a kick in the teeth as I possibly can. So, I'm really praying the pieces of this project all come together to make it as big and successful as it possibly can be.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Survivor Project Update
New happenings on the Survivor Project.
First, I've created a brochure to help promote the project and am calling it "Portraits of Hope."
I found a list of support groups online. It wasn't up-to-date, but was accurate enough to get me in touch with the right people. I spoke with the coordinators for several groups. They were all thrilled with the project and eager to help. Most immediately thought of some people who would be great to include in the project, and now within less than two weeks, I've had several phone calls and emails from willing participants. I've only spoken briefly to a few of them, but their stories are inspiring and I'm eager to photograph them and to speak with them in person.
I'm still working on multiple options for the project. Most of the people I've spoken to the last week or so have been treated at OU, and that will facilitate getting the calendar project going. It seems a logical first step anyway, and I need to be photographing people for the calendar now so I can get the production work done and the calendar can be printed and available at least by August or early September.
Also, getting more portraits created will help add credibility to the project and hopefully get other area businesses on board to support the project and increase its effectiveness as a fundraiser, and hopefully get the display portion of the project rolling.
If you know of someone who is a cancer survivor who would be willing to participate, have them contact me. I'm a little hard to reach sometimes at my studio number, but they could call and leave a message, or leave a comment here, or use the contact form on my website.
If you would like to help financially with the project, either as an individual or business, please contact me. I'm looking for help in printing the calendars and in creating the display. Sponsors will be recognized in the calendar and on the display, and in any promotion or publicity for each, so businesses can count this toward their advertising budget.
Any funds raised beyond the actual cost of the project will be donated to cancer research. The calendar is being created on behalf of the Peggy & Charles Stephenson Cancer Center. Proceeds from the display will also benefit the Cancer Center, but if enough is raised, I would also like to split out part of it as a donation to the American Cancer Society.
First, I've created a brochure to help promote the project and am calling it "Portraits of Hope."
I found a list of support groups online. It wasn't up-to-date, but was accurate enough to get me in touch with the right people. I spoke with the coordinators for several groups. They were all thrilled with the project and eager to help. Most immediately thought of some people who would be great to include in the project, and now within less than two weeks, I've had several phone calls and emails from willing participants. I've only spoken briefly to a few of them, but their stories are inspiring and I'm eager to photograph them and to speak with them in person.
I'm still working on multiple options for the project. Most of the people I've spoken to the last week or so have been treated at OU, and that will facilitate getting the calendar project going. It seems a logical first step anyway, and I need to be photographing people for the calendar now so I can get the production work done and the calendar can be printed and available at least by August or early September.
Also, getting more portraits created will help add credibility to the project and hopefully get other area businesses on board to support the project and increase its effectiveness as a fundraiser, and hopefully get the display portion of the project rolling.
If you know of someone who is a cancer survivor who would be willing to participate, have them contact me. I'm a little hard to reach sometimes at my studio number, but they could call and leave a message, or leave a comment here, or use the contact form on my website.
If you would like to help financially with the project, either as an individual or business, please contact me. I'm looking for help in printing the calendars and in creating the display. Sponsors will be recognized in the calendar and on the display, and in any promotion or publicity for each, so businesses can count this toward their advertising budget.
Any funds raised beyond the actual cost of the project will be donated to cancer research. The calendar is being created on behalf of the Peggy & Charles Stephenson Cancer Center. Proceeds from the display will also benefit the Cancer Center, but if enough is raised, I would also like to split out part of it as a donation to the American Cancer Society.
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