Wildlife and Outdoor type magazines???

[Abbe Osram]

Hi guys,
could you please point me into the direction of some wildlife and outdoor magazines? Lots of people write to me and tell me that they like my pictures and I got the idea to contact some wildlife and outdoor magazines to check out if they would be interested if I shoot some pictures for them. The trapping and hunting for food doesn't work out so well and I thought it would be nice to get some money into the hand and food into the stomach. ;-))

thanks for any link or tip
cheers
Abbe

 

[jakunen]

You could try Country Walking (country.walking@emap.com), or TGO (http://www.tgomagazine.co.uk/)

 

[greg2935]

National Geographic would be the best to get published in. Good Luck

Greg

 

[arctic hobo]

As a bit of a snappy man myself (film though, not digital) I'd say what you need to do is build up a portfolio of good pictures, that you can show interested people. That way they can get to know your work. Also, getting it up in a local cafe or a local gallery is a great start, and looks good on your photography CV if you know what I mean. Also, don't give up, approach many different companies. Even your local paper is a great achievement! Good luck :biggthump

 

[R-Bowskill]

There are two ways of doing that, one is to approach magazines directly, for that I'd reccomend you get a copy of the writers and artists yearbook, the other is to send your photo's to a picture agency. They'll take a cut but if the pictures are good they'll get used time and time again so you'll have an ongoing income.

Don't limit yourself to 'outdoors & wildlife' magazines. Some that pay the best prices are things like womens magazines, including the cheaper ones and 'in house' publications for large companies.

It could well be worth joining something like the beurau of freelance photographers or your local equivalent as they will be able to give you help and advice on all the legal side of it, copyright, what rights you're selling and so on which is important.

If the magazine says it accepts slides don't send colour prints, find the name of the right person, probably the picture editor. and keep a copy of anything that prints one of your pictures, even if they don't pay you. For some reason editors are more willing to use someone that another editor has thought worth useing.

Hope this advice helps.

 

[Abbe Osram]

Hi to all!
thank you very much for all the info and advice.
I mailed already an e-mail to 3 magazines and got one answer back saying that they contact me if they write something about swedish lapland.
Maybe they where only nice with me but still handing out the pink slip anyhow who knows maybe something comes out of it. Its like with my traps, maybe tomorrow I catch something.

cheers to all
Abbe

 

[Viking]

There are lots of huntin magazines and also some other smaller magazines in sweden that might be interested in your pictures.

Check also for friluftsfrämjaändates and STF member magazines

 

[ChrisKavanaugh]

I'll collect some links later ( short on time) Conservation groups are very fond of publishing magazines ( now if they would all use 100% post consumer recycled paper :? Audoban,World Wildlife fund, Sierra Club, EARTH FIRST! etc.

 

[tomtom]

i send pictures to devon wildlife for their newsletter.. but you cant expect to get payed for that kind of thing!

 

[Justin Time]

The BBC Wildlife magazine runs an international wildlife photographer of the year competition. Find out more here