From Photo-Era Magazine:
- Children in the Snow.
- The Quartz-Meniscus Lens.
- Introduction of Figures in Landscape-Work.
- Photographic Greeting Cards.
- Balance by Shadows in Pictorial Composition.
- Mounting and Framing Photographs.
- The Photographer and a Goat-Ranch.
- In Nature's Studio.
From Science and Invention:
- Science Measures the Athlete.
- World's Largest Clock.
- Making Microphotographs.
- How Cartoon Movies are Made.
- A Miniature "Sky."
- Curing Soldiers' Ills with Electricity.
- Largest Electric Crane Lifts Complete Tug-Boat.
- Wintertime Uses for the Electric Fan.
- Monster Italian Searchlight.
These are articles written around several photographs—not merely illustrated by them. Besides the classes of magazines mentioned there are numerous others—almost any publication that uses illustrations in fact—which are in the market for illustrated articles. Such magazines cater to outers, hunters, sportsmen, business-men, physical culturists, travelers—almost every class of reader.
Having produced and sold articles written around the illustrations, the writer-photographer cannot other than form an idea, now and then, of an article a magazine should want which may be illustrated; but to which the illustrations are supplementary rather than basic. In such cases, the writer will have greater chance of acceptance if he, by means of his camera, makes several photographs to illustrate the text.
Even if an article is acceptable without illustrations, it will bring a bigger cheque nevertheless if it is illustrated. If the lack of illustrations makes the article unavailable, then the photographer has the means of making a cheque grow where none grew before. His camera stands him in good stead. There is no editor but prefers an illustrated article to an unillustrated one—unless his magazine is pictureless from policy.
Then, from having his pictures printed without his name attached, the photographer blossoms into a writer whose work appears under such a head as "'How Fruit is Raised on the Moon,' by John Henry Jones, with Illustrations by the Author."
Although the jump from the making of photographs to the writing of non-fiction is easy, you may slip at the first attempt. But hammer away and soon the nail will go in. "For know ye, there isn't a magazine-editor in the business who wouldn't buy an article from his worst enemy if he thought it was good stuff for his magazine."
The photographer must not only "smell out" news; but he must, by the sensitiveness of his "nose" tell just how much the news is capable of being worked up. He will find it comparatively easy to write illustrated special-articles where before he sold just photographs. And such ability stands not far below that of the fictionists.