makes your life simpler by answering such nagging questions as:
do you write box car, or boxcar?
It's the photos that make or break submissions
While we're on the subject of article submissions, let's add a
very important note. Photos, not text, make or break an article
with us. You will note Tom's article deals a lot with the photo
side of his article-building effort.
We have budding authors who try to send us text samples to
see if we'd be interested in an article, and we respond:
send us
some photos with captions, please.
The reason for this is simple: if you can write at all coherently,
we have copy editors who can make you sound good. But if you
can't take a decent photo, then all bets are off. Photoshoping
bad photos gives you one consistent result: Photoshopped
photos that look bad. Unfortunately, there's not much you can
do to change that.
Good visuals matter most with us. If you can take a good photo
that's well lit, well-focused, and well-composed, then you
rise to the top quickly. If you study our article ratings, you will
notice the articles with the best-looking images tend to be in
the top 5 every issue. The articles with B-grade photos (and
we do run a few of those when the ideas merit it) tend to get
lower ratings in the reader feedback.
Sending MRH really large files
Files of 10 MB or larger size may give you problems if you try to
post it to our site as an attachment or if you try to send it to us as
an article. What do we recommend to solve this problem?
Dropbox is one good option, or the latest new kid on the block for
"internet cloud storage" is Google Drive.
