Yesterday I received a check and some contributor copies of the October 2008 issue of Rural Montana Magazine. They published a photo I took of a tiger swallowtail butterfly. This isn't a huge magazine, but it's sent out to over 250,000 customers who belong to this electric company. They don't have this issue up online yet, so I can't show you the picture itself. That's also due to the fact that our external hard drive that stores our photos is being serviced right now. And yes -- Rick & I are freaking out over that! However, the magazine has other issues that feature my photographs, if you want to take a look ...- August 2007 -- Neil picture
- January 2008 -- mountain goat picture and snow picture
- May 2008 -- grizzly bear picture
- July 2008 -- phylox blossom & ant picture and lily picture
The swallowtail butterfly picture makes 7 photographs I've had published in this magazine. They only pay $10 each time they print one, but there have been times they've paid me more. As I said, it's not a huge publication, but it's a start and it's always fun to see my pictures in the magazine. This upcoming year they're offering $100 for cover photographs, so I'm really going to start working on that. It's a contest and they said they will choose more than one winner throughout the year. Wish me luck!
Cool , well done Rena!
ReplyDeleteWOW! Rena these are wonderful pics...I hope you had a camera with a wonderful zoom feature on it when you took the grizzly bear pic...I would hate to think you were that close to the bear...yikes! Good luck on the cover shot...you have quite a talent...
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ReplyDeleteThanks Brenda! That particular grizzly was in the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center, so I was safe. I think I took that picture with my Canon Powershot. If you go down in my posts there are some others I took at the same place recently. I do, however, have other bear pictures that I WAS that close to. We had a lot of bears (black, not grizzly) coming into our yard this spring. I got some really good pictures of them. I'll try to post them sometime. :)
I keep telling you one day I'm going to say "I knew you when" Heehee
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Gorgeous photos, Rena! I have a feeling you'll get that cover shot soon!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nancy & Kelly.
ReplyDeleteMost of the covers are nature pictures. The one I posted here was a special teen issue, but most others have some sort of nature photograph on them. I'll see what I can do! :)
Congratulations on your newest published photo!
ReplyDeleteGood Luck on the cover contest - go Rena!!!
Well done! Alwys nice to get recognition, and money is a bonus!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sruble & Dee!
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