Your search for opportunities to get your photographs and articles published shouldn't be limited to the big names in diving. There are plenty of magazines that cover scuba diving for a geographic area as opposed to nationally or globally.
One such magazine is South Florida Adventures based in Fort Lauderdale. I met the editor, David Raterman, at the Florida Dive Show last December where we discussed ideas for his magazine. While we were chatting one of the women who had been on my seminar joined us - within five minutes I'd coached her to the point where David agreed to take a look at an article she said she would put together on diving from kayaks. I'm not sure if she ever completed it. But the point is, this was an easy way to get published. and unlike other free magazines, David does pay (I seem to remember it would have been about $100).
But for that you would probably get your name in the mast head as a contributor and maybe a photo and short profile in the contributors page. More importantly you would have a published article to your name for your clip file.
In last years scuba issue there were articles which could be, with a little bit of coaching, matched in quality by most beginners.
Don't overlook local opportunities, and remember, editors need to fill their pages every month with interesting articles, there's no reason why you shouldn't be the author of one of them.
Keep writing....
Brendan
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