So I was doing my daily email check Monday night when I came across a notification that I had new FlickrMail. So I opened it and was shocked by what I read. The email read:
Hello KD –
My name is Gabby Salazar and I am the editor of the new
Nature’s Best Photography for Kids Magazine (check out our
main publication at www.naturesbestmagazine.com). Your
images are great (I love the image of ice that was on CNN
and I checked out your website) – we publish young
photographers under 21 years of age. If you are interested
in submitting please email me at
gsalazar@naturesbestforkids.com for submission guidelines.
Best –
Gabby Salazar
So of course I sent a reply off right away telling her I’d love to submit some of my work to the magazine. She sent the submission guidelines my way today and after deciphering what she wanted (and getting a little help doing what she wanted from a geeky friend of mine) I was able to get started on my path to submission and publication! Hooray! I’m still a bit in shock but apparently I’m the only one. Seems like everyone saw it coming a mile away. Here I am, two days later, still thinking, “They want to publish…me?” It’s so surreal and I’m loving every minute of it. If anyone has any ideas of which photos to send in, I need to pic at least 20 but no more than 40 so give me some ideas! There are a few obvious ones that will be sent in, but I’m not sure about the rest. Any advice would be appreciated!
I have the day off tomorrow so I’m hoping to go out and do some shooting at the Zoo or Botanical Gardens. I’m not sure what’s in bloom at the Gardens now that the daylilies have died. However it might be worth it to venture out there since Wednesdays before noon admission is free. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what I feel like in the morning. Either way, it’ll be a good day since I’ll get to go out with my camera. Nothing better than that!
I’m slowly but surely getting all my photos posted to Flickr. I’ve got about 200 or so on there now but there’s still about 10 folders that I need to go through and watermark. I should be posting them to my actual website but until my tech-savvy friend has time to really give me a great site, I’ll stick to Flickr. Speaking of Flickr, the business cards I ordered from Moo.com (a site associated with Flickr) came yesterday. I’m really stoked about that. They look great! I can’t wait to start handing them out. Now I feel really professional! Business cards and publishing all in a couple days…how cool is that?
Anyway, I hope to get some feedback from those of you who read this. Any and all is much appreciated. As usual, thanks to all who support me. A special thanks to those geeky nerds who keep me together and help me out when technology leaves me baffled once again. And another special thanks to those loving and caring friends who get excited about the little and big events surrounding my passion for photography. I’d be lost without all of you!
Kd
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