While there are magazines with Contributor Guidelines that ask for certain things from freelance writers and photographers, others don't have any guidance at all.
However, they do give away a lot within their pages - for any budding diving / travel journalist these clues are as good as Contributor Guidelines.
Take this month's Sport Diver magazine (June 2008) as an example. You only have to go as far as page 3 to find your first opportunity.
The front cover of a turtle and diver is not from any freelance contributor, instead it is from the stock photograph agency, Image Quest Marine. This tells me that the editor is probably short of good front cover shots - so if you have any photographs that would be suitable, now would be a good time to market them. I can guarantee it will cost the editor less to use your photographs than those from an image library.
There are quite a few magazines that even advertise the fact they are always looking for cover shots. Bizarre eh? You would have thought the market would be flooded with underwater photographers clamouring to get their pictures on a front cover.
More about what editors look for in a front cover shot, as well as the other clues they provide in respect of their needs another time.
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Brendan
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