Dear Reader,

As you may have noticed, our photo website is in the process of getting a make-over. We need photos for the banner, and we’d love it if they came from you.

Scroll down for details...

-- Bonnie

Bonnie Caton
AWAI Travel Division

P.S. Don’t forget: Next week we announce the Photo Challenge $2,000 Grand Prize Winner. Voting ends next Monday, October 26, so if you haven’t voted yet, go ahead and do so now. 

October 22, 2009

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Featured Publication: The Photographer’s Life
Website: http://www.thephotographerslife.com
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Wanted: Clean, Colorful Travel Photos That Create a Desire to Get Off the Couch and See the World

By Bonnie Caton in Portland, OR

The look of our website creates your first impression of us. So we want the photos up top to represent the excitement and fun that go with traveling and making a living doing something you love. Learning a new skill and using it to travel and make a living is an adventure. It’s life-changing. That’s what we want to capture.

We could always buy generic travel images on iStock and call it good. But what better way to represent who we are and what we do at The Photographer's Life than with amazing travel photos from our readers?

We could use five or six new images that we can rotate in and out of our banner. Here’s what we need:

** One good shot from this year’s Bonanza Creek Western-themed photo shoot in Santa Fe, to promote our workshop recordings...
** One photo that captures the look and feel of Cotacachi, Ecuador, to promote our upcoming Photo and Spanish Immersion Expedition there...
** A photo of Sydney or Melbourne, Australia, to promote our upcoming Photo Expedition...
** Three to four clean, colorful, magazine-quality travel images.

We will ONLY consider images that:

** Have model releases for any people in them.
** Have excellent composition -- meaning they’re free of clutter, have a straight horizon, possess one clear subject, and follow the Rule of Thirds where appropriate.
** Are properly exposed and in focus.
** Aren’t overly processed.
** Are at least 640 pixels wide by 370 pixels high, oriented horizontally (landscape) rather than vertically (portrait).

TIP: Copy space is a plus.

Take a look at our site to see where the main photo will go up top.

Our favorite shots will get a $30 gift certificate to the AWAI E-Bookstore and a photo credit when published on our site. You keep all of the rights to your photo, so if you’d like to sell it as stock, you certainly can.

Only THREE photos per person will be considered. To submit, use the ITWPA photo submission form. The deadline for submissions is next Monday, October 26.

[Ed. Note: If you have more than one photo that fits the above criteria, you might be able to sell your shots as stock and create a nice little side-income... or even a full-time living. Last weekend at the Ultimate Stock Photography Workshop, we heard from five professional photographers that earn a good living with their shots... and incredibly, NONE of them started out as professional photographers. In fact, they made the switch to photography after leaving their careers in retail, real-estate, law, social work, and design. If they can do it, so can you. Hear all of the inspiring stories and stock photo tips and strategies they shared in Santa Fe with the Ultimate Stock Photography Workshop-At-Home Package.]

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