I happen to know this Oregon Coast preview well as I sold a photo of the Heceta Head lighthouse as my first magazine cover, back in 1960. In those days it cost the equivalent of two gallons of gasoline for a single 4"x5" sheet of color film and processing. Filming would have taken a Hollywood budget. I would have liked to have captured the lighthouse flashing back in the day, but due to time and money this had to wait until last month, and the astounding advantages of a digital revolution, to make this work photographically.

So, here is a pragmatic excuse to actually use your freedom-of-the-road machine exploring the back-roads of America. Just as purist fishermen (read “expensive equipment”) spend huge amounts of money to fly-in fish wilderness Alaska, get yourself a mega-pixel digital creative device you can stick out a window. Take a decent record of where you have been to support a self-employed Schedule C, taking gallery quality prints pressed onto T-shirts (Psst! Want to buy the URL photo-art-tee-shirts.com? Make me an offer.) to hang for sale on your awning in Quartzite, Arizona, during the world’s largest flea market/RV gathering every January.

Why would I, a professional photographer, encourage competition? I know a number of things for certain. It took a lot of traveling to arrive back at Heceta Head at precisely the right timing —47 years: 3 months: 12 days: 11 hours: 23 minutes: 44 seconds later, to catch the light I wanted. Also, I am 68-year-old-something, but even driving all over this incredible country to escape being captured and sentenced to a retirement community, those seconds of a life I have thoroughly enjoyed are ticking away.

There is probably no way I will be photographing Oregon Coast lighthouses, one more time. Or the Boco Chia lighthouse on Miami’s Biscayne Bay, so I simply need your help as a “travel photographer” to get the job of documenting “this land is our land,” done to help fulfill my impossible dream of developing all the chapters of our proposed coast-to-coast USATravelMagazines.com publishing empire.

Notice that I haven’t made it real easy for readers who may become competitors, as to exactly where these lighthouses are located on the Oregon Coast. That would be the same as cutting your meat into little bites. Real working photographers never retire; we just spend a lot of time thinking over what f-stop it would take to photograph that fabled “white light.” 

I am not kidding about needing help. Go to our www.AlaskaTravelMagazine.com. Take a look at the number of pages there. Than consider that we also own all the URLs (empty at this time) covering Hawaii to Florida, North Dakota to Texas.  Find out exactly what editorial standards are needed, and if the timing is right for us to hold a “family style” traveling digital video filming and computer editing workshop while developing www.BajaTravelMagazine.com, at our one-day corporate
www.E-TravelMagazines.com virtual headquarters. 

Having interactively flipped yourself through this video magazine, I am hoping on the next page we can offer you a Reader Rewards Rebate Coupon of ??% off —no matter if a camera is purchased online, or through a brick-and-mortar store — of the digital equipment we would be recommending as being capable of the development of your very own, “MyState”TravelMagazine.com.