Sometimes we get so caught up with making the perfect picture—tack-sharp focus, vibrant color, fantastic moment—that we forget the cardinal rule of selling photographs to magazines. Let me share a secret I’ve learned from more than 30 years of selling photographs to magazines from National Geographic Adventure to Modern Bride: Editors don’t buy photos they […]
The tougher and more expensive the shot is to make, the more money it earns. Right? One of the most complicated photographs I ever made was for an ISLANDS Magazine feature on the Out Islands in the Bahamas. We had to find a helicopter and a vintage airplane with floats (preferable a pretty yellow), two […]
One of the gifts of writing and photographing travel stories that I’m eternally grateful for is that you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on an African safari or Antarctic cruise to impress an editor with your work and break into the market. You can start honing your travel writing and photography skills without […]
