Sean Flanagan, a graphic designer working on an ad campaign for the upcoming SIA08 (SnowSports Industries America) conference, contacted me ask permission to use an old family photo of ours for one of the ads. In his words…
I am…working on a new ad campaign for SIA (Snowsports Industies America) a non profit association in DC that educates people about snow sports and works to increase snow sport participation each year. We are working on a new ad campaign for their upcoming annual show, with the theme “One Family. One House.” I recently came across your family portrait (circa 1982) on a google image search for retro family portraits. [The ad] will only appear in industry trade magazines like Ski Press, none of your main stream consumer magazines, since SIA is a trade organization and they only deal with the local shops, not the riders or consumers.
Thanks for your time, the picture has a great retro feel and would be perfect for the ad, and the theme.
After passing it around to the rest of the family, we’ve given our okay, and Sean was kind enough to give me permission to post the ad here. Thanks much, Sean!
Addendum: I was curious as to where Sean found the photo, since I couldn’t find it either in my Flickr stream or on my website, so I did a quick Google Images search for ‘retro family portrait‘, and what do you know — that photo is the third hit! Oddly, it comes up as part of a forum thread on Archinect, a site for architectural designers. They’d hotlinked the image from an entry on Dad’s website. I’m glad Sean was able to track us down, circuitous as the route might have been.