We welcome photo submissions from all over the region! Following is a list of our upcoming photo needs through 2007. Following are notes on submissions and coverage area. Below is a look ahead to our next five issues. We're looking for feature photography and cover images, and we're connecting covers to the stories inside the magazine, so we're not just looking for general mountain scenics. We're looking for scenes with and without people, for outdoor recreation from soft to extreme.
We can especially use more images from Kentucky, South Carolina and Alabama as well as our other coverage states:
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Click HERE for a full editorial calendar.
For each issue's travel destinations and weekend getaways, we are looking for scenics, town shots, people, outdoor recreation, historical attractions, etc. - all should be shot within the season they are to appear (green, autumn, winter).
SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR 2007-2009
November/December 2007
DEADLINE: August 10
• SPECIAL COLLECTORS' ISSUE - BLUE RIDGE FLAVORS
• PHOTO ESSAY: Holidays in the Hills. Festivities, decorations, snowy landscapes, warm fires, ice skating and other ways of celebrating and enjoying the winter season.
• FEATURED DESTINATION: Calhoun, Dalton and Hartwell, Ga.
January/February 2008
DEADLINE: October 10
• PHOTO ESSAY: Written in Stone. Old cemeteries, rock formations, stone walls, stones in a creek and all variations.
• COVER: Green season travel - looking for scenics and outdoor recreation with or without people. Theme for this year's travel guide is "9 Trips that will Change Your Life."
March/April 2008
DEADLINE: December 10
• PHOTO ESSAY: Wind and Water
• FEATURED DESTINATION: "Near" Southwest Virginia (including Roanoke, Salem and Blacksburg/New River Valley)
• WEEKEND GETAWAY: LaFollette, Tennessee and Norris Lake
• CULINARY DESTINATION: Asheville and Highlands, N.C. NOTE on culinary
destinations: some of this photography will be assigned (restaurants and dishes) but we will also need cityscape shots.
May/June 2008
DEADLINE: February 10
• PHOTO ESSAY: Disappearing History: What have we lost and what are we losing?
• FEATURED DESTINATION: West Virginia panhandle (Harpers Ferry, Berkeley Springs, Martinsburg)
• WEEKEND GETAWAY: Blue Ridge, Georgia
• CULINARY DESTINATION: Charlottesville and Little Washington, Va. NOTE on culinary destinations: some of this photography will be assigned (restaurants and dishes) but we will also need cityscape shots.
July/August 2008
DEADLINE: April 10
BLUE RIDGE COUNTRY'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
• PHOTO ESSAY: The Next Generations: What and who are the future of our mountains? We're looking for images reflecting those ideas in all their incarnations.
• FEATURED DESTINATION: North Georgia towns of Hiawassee and Blairsville
• WEEKEND GETAWAY: Western Maryland and Deep Creek Lake
September/October 2008
DEADLINE: June 10
• PHOTO ESSAY: Outdoors: How to enjoy the wild red, orange and yellow yonder? We're looking for images of people recreating, as unstaged as possible, from soft to extreme adventure in the Appalachian mountains.
• FEATURED DESTINATION: High Country, N.C.
• WEEKEND GETAWAY: Charleston, W.Va.
• CULINARY DESTINATION: Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. NOTE on culinary destinations: some of this photography will be assigned (restaurants and dishes) but we will also need cityscape shots.
November/December 2008
DEADLINE: August 10
• PHOTO ESSAY: Traditional Art/Craft: Artists, artists' hands, the work they create, the environments that inspire them, the spaces they work in.
Looking for late fall and winter shots for our featured destination and weekend getaway:
• FEATURED DESTINATION: Northeast Tennessee (Bristol, Johnson City,
Jonesborough)
• WEEKEND GETAWAY: Upcountry, South Carolina at and around Lake Jocassee
2009 PHOTO ESSAYS SCHEDULED SO FAR
January/February 2009
A Blanket of Snow: The shapes and landscapes created by snow and ice.
Deadline: October 10, 2008
March/April 2009
The Moment Between: Looking for the transition between that short time between winter and spring, when the young greens are glowing almost like fall, and the brilliant burst of flowering color that arrives after.
Deadline: December 10, 2008
OUR COVERAGE AREA
All shots must have been taken in our coverage region: the mountains of nine states: VA, WV, TN, KY, AL, GA, MD, NC, and SC.
Click here for a list of counties.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Blue Ridge Country buys one-time North American rights, with said rights including use of photos on company promotional materials and on its website. We require a one-year exclusivity on any image appearing on BRC covers before it is submitted elsewhere. We do not acknowledge as binding the terms of individual photographers' submittal forms. BRC pays upon publication.
Submissions may be slides, medium or large format transparencies or high or low-res digital - submit on disk or via e mail as .jpgs, .tiffs or in .pdf files, or contact us if you wish to use ftp. High-resolution digital should be submitted as raw .tiff files. We rarely are able to use print film photos in photo essay. Please include caption info with your submissions and contact sheets with any digital submissions.
Please include cutlines or identifying information for all photos - especially specific geography (where/when was a photo shot). Any full-facial photos of people must have releases or permission.
Address:
Cara Ellen Modisett, Editor
Blue Ridge Country magazine - photo submissions INCLUDE ISSUE MONTHS
3424 Brambleton Ave. SW
Roanoke VA 24018
E mail submissions: photos@leisurepublishing.com
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please don't submit non-digital images (slides,
transparencies) for more than two issues in advance - there are definite limits to our time and storage space here. Post this calendar wherever you find it most handy for future reference.
NOTE ON DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS AND FILE NAMES
Whenever possible, assign short file names to your photos. Anything beyond 12 characters (plus file extension) and we must rename from this end to be able to use them. If you'd like suggestions for file name conventions, click HERE. We do understand that many of you have already-established archiving and submission systems and this may be too disruptive.
If you have any further questions, please email Cara Ellen Modisett/Editor. You may also call(540) 989-6138.
