Probably the quickest and easiest way to break into travel-writing is to write short articles of about 250 to 600 words. There are literally hundreds of publications in the market for pieces like these: short articles reviewing a great restaurant, an outstanding little B&B, an unbeatable travel deal, and so on.

If you shoot digital, you have a distinct advantage over the film photographer. One of the most helpful features of the digital camera is the histogram, if you know how to use it.

There seems to be something of a mystique that’s grown up around the stock photo industry. Blair Howard, freelance photojournalist, the author of 29 books, 600 articles and 3000 published photographs talks about working with Stock Photo Agencies in this four part series.

There seems to be something of a mystique that's grown up around the stock photo industry. Blair Howard, freelance photojournalist, the author of 29 books, 600 articles and 3000 published photographs talks about working with Stock Photo Agencies in this four part series.

There seems to be something of a mystique that's grown up around the stock photo industry. Blair Howard, freelance photojournalist, the author of 29 books, 600 articles and 3000 published photographs talks about working with Stock Photo Agencies in this four part series.

There seems to be something of a mystique that’s grown up around the stock photo industry. Blair Howard, freelance photojournalist, the author of 29 books, 600 articles and 3000 published photographs talks about working with Stock Photo Agencies in this four part series.

Editors NOTE:  Blair is giving a workshop in in Philadelphia on June 22 - 25. To Find out more CLICK HERE.