Monthly Archives: July 2011

Summit County and the Lowepro Pro Trekker 300 AW

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Efraín M. Padró

© Efraín M. Padró, All Rights Reserved I recently spent a week in Summit County, Colorado, photographing wildflowers and landscapes. I lived in Colorado for almost 20 years and like to visit regularly to shoot for stock. July is one of my favorite times to visit the High Country because the wildflower displays are at their peak and the daytime temperatures only reach the 70s. Summit County includes the towns of Breckenridge, Dillon, and Frisco, among others, and its accessibility (a little over an hour west of Denver) and number of trails makes it an ideal photo destination. We stayed near Dillon and most of the trails we hiked began within 3-4 miles from the hotel. One of my favorite outings was the Gore Range’s hike … Continue reading →

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Getting on Magazines’ Mailing Lists

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Efraín M. Padró

 All Materials © Efraín M. Padró/Padró Images, All Rights Reserved One of the most challenging tasks photographers face when trying to place their work in magazines is deciding which images to submit. It is highly unlikely that your beautiful (but unsolicited) pictures of, say, Mongolia, are exactly what an editor was looking for when she received your submission. On the other hand, when an editor contacts you directly and asks for the same images, you have a good chance of making a sale. Many magazine editors do have, in fact, a mailing list of trusted photographers who supply most of their stock images. Here are five suggestions for getting your name on editors’ mailing lists. Shoot the Golden Gate Bridge: … Continue reading →

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The First Photographic Kiss

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Efraín M. Padró

© Efraín M. Padró, All Rights Reserved In the history of the world there have probably been more first kisses than there are stars in the sky. That’s a lot of first kisses. But despite how ordinary first kisses are, they are still new and fresh and exciting to those experiencing them. So it was that I recently had the opportunity to visit Paris, France, and there I photographed the Eiffel Tower (and Notre Dame, and the Louvre, and…) for the first time. I figured the iconic tower had been photographed many times, but not as many times as there have been first kisses, and certainly it had never been photographed by me. In that sense my photographs were unique. Sometimes we get so … Continue reading →

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