Zach Matthews
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Shannon –
With that much experience, I’m sure it won’t take you long to get noticed if you put your work where editors can easily find it.
Zach
Shannon –
Multiple submissions are fine so long as you let the editors know you have submitted to other publications.
Joel –
Your homeowner’s insurance should certainly cover this kind of theft if you haven’t already pursued it.
Damn. Ironically, my father in law was in that exact same position last week. He was hunting in a western state by invitation. He had been invited to hunt elk. While stalking, he came across a true trophy muley. Not wanting to overstep his welcome, he let it go, since he hadn’t ever asked permission to take a deer. Later they gave it to him of course, but that’s the kind of guy he is.
Zach
Here’s a timely article underscoring why I insist on the use of real names, which as far as I can tell is unique in the fly fishing internets.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/03/angry.internet/index.html
I genuinely believe the respectful tenor of this board is due to this one rule.
Zach
John –
Your scenario is completely true if we posit that the author/photographer only visits a location a single time.
John –
You’re dealing with slightly higher levels of the outdoor press than the fly fishing industry, but generally speaking, fly fishing magazines prefer to have the author turn in the photos with the copy and for both to be good enough to run. One of the reasons you see a lot of the same names in fly fishing magazines is that there’s a limited number of people out there who are (a) decent writers (b) decent photographers and (c) willing to do both more or less for love, since the pay is insufficient to make a full-time living. Fly fishing magazines have the luxury of tons of people wanting to be published, so naturally out of hundreds of potential applicants, a few are going to be qualified in all respects.
If you were editing a turkey hunting magazine, maybe there wouldn’t be so many qualified, literate people trying to submit (especially on the writing side), and you’d be forced to use stock or assignment photographers to match what your handful of writers could turn out. Ironically, that would probably lead to better photo support overall. But, with the rise of digital photography, there’s less and less difference between the output of a qualified pro and the output of a decent amateur, especially if you only have room to run maybe 4 pictures in the entire article. I would argue that anyone can produce acceptable images a few times in an outing, and the main difference between a pro and a skilled amateur is the number of quality photos you get out of a pro.
Thus, yes, the article drives the bus, not the photography. I’m afraid photographers are a dime a dozen compared to qualified writers (speaking as someone who has edited a section of a magazine for the last three years).
Zach