[Woodcarver] Charitable Fundraising challenge...

[Bill Judt]

Gentle Subscribers:

Take a look at this project, and see if it might fit your circumstances.
Please respond off-list to Steve Marsels at:
steve at stevemarselstudio.com

Bill
List Owner

My books are for sale at: http://wwwoodcarver.com/Books/Books.html
W.F. Judt,
46 Harvard Cres,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
S7H3R1
PH: 306-373-6649
Email: bjudt at sasktel.net
Website: http://www.wwwoodcarver.com


Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Bill Judt
World Wide Woodcarver Mailing List 

Dear Bill,

I enjoyed our telephone conversation yesterday afternoon.   Thank you 
for your most gracious offer of posting this a note concerning my 
project to your universe of wood carvers!

To the wood carvers, please allow this letter to introduce me. My name 
is Steve Marsel. I’m a commercial photographer involved in a public 
service project for the Pan Mass Challenge www.pmc.org The PMC is a 
charitable bicycle event in its 26th year that raises money for the 
Jimmy Fund, the fundraising arm of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. 
Last year the PMC, through its 4400 riders, donated twenty million 
dollars through its two-day, 192-mile ride.

My specific project is providing photographs for a brochure honoring 25 
riders, representative of the thousands, who ride each year. The 
pictures feature the riders in circumstances that allude to their 
careers or hobbies when they aren’t raising money for cancer. The 
brochure and a selection of very large (44” X 77”) color prints will be 
unveiled at a PMC event at the JFK library in June. I have provided a 
link to a PDF file on my website that shows the brochure in progress. 
That link is http://www.stevemarselstudio.com/PMC-1.pdf

All but two photographs for the project are completed. One of the 
subjects I have left to photograph is Karen Axelrod. Karen is the 
author of Watch It Made in the U.S.A.: A Visitor’s Guide to the 
Companies that Make Your Favorite Products.  
http://www.factorytour.com/ In her book, there is a section that 
highlights the New England Carousel Museum.

A carousel would offer a colorful, unique location for her photograph. 
We would like to portray Karen on a carousel “bike” wearing her bike 
gear. The need arises to have a bike carved and painted in the style of 
the horses on the carousel.  We would shoot Karen on a horse at the 
actual carousel for angle and light reference, then shoot her again 
here in my studio in Somerville, Massachusetts.   We would then 
electronically composite the two photographs so it appeared as though 
Karen was actually riding on a carved bicycle on a real carousel. We 
have done this before and had great success!

Each person who will receive this brochure raised at least double of 
the PMC’s expectations. This brochure will serve as a giant thank you 
to them for their continued fundraising in years to come. We’re hoping 
there is a talented wood carver out there who can share in our vision 
to show gratitude to the thousands of people who have individually made 
significant strides in a cure for cancer.

We look forward to answering any questions you have concerning this 
photo shoot and hearing any additional comments on the project.

 
Respectfully,

Steve Marsel

Steve Marsel
Steve Marsel Studio, LLC
561 Windsor Street
Somerville, MA.  02143
(P)    617-718-7407
(F)    617-718-7409
(C)    617-901-5209
 
www.stevemarselstudio.com
 
steve at stevemarselstudio.com


Steve Writes:
"My specific project is providing photographs for a brochure honoring 
25 riders, representative of the thousands, who ride each year. The 
pictures feature the riders in circumstances that allude to their 
careers or hobbies when they aren’t raising money for cancer. The 
brochure and a selection of very large (44” X 77”) color prints will be 
unveiled at a PMC event at the JFK library in June. I have provided a 
link to a PDF file on my website that shows the brochure in progress. 
That link is http://www.stevemarselstudio.com/PMC-1.pdf"

Check out the PDF link.





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