We’ve scheduled a photo shoot for the car for April 27 at the Bonny Doon Airport. The managers are great folks and, like us, very community oriented. Brooks Institute-trained Santa Cruz photographer Jeff Luhn will do the photography. Larry, of Larry’s Electric, is bringing his boom truck. Why a boom truck, you might ask? Well, we want to simulate a photo of the car being photographed from a helicopter. Something like this, which I got a screen capture from “Dust to Glory”
To recreate this shot on an airport runway, Jeff says we need 25 pounds of flour. I’m guessing whole wheat.
(The above shot is of Eric Solorzano’s car, actually being chased by a helicopter).
We’ll be inviting the airport neighbors to come out and I should have some World Diabetes Day items to give out. If there’s time we hope to give some folks a ride in the car.
The photo will be used on hero cards that we’ll be printing. They’ll have the photo on the front and the warning signs of diabetes on the back. Our first run will be in English, but in advance of the Baja 1000, we’ll also do a print run in Spanish. We’ll be autographing these and giving them out to fans.
We’re also working with the International Diabetes Federation on an event in the Bay Area in early June. More on that once we firm up a few details.
