DoobieDucks Wild West Story Treating Yourself issue #21
I am so honored and humbled to be published again in Treating Yourself Magazine. My story Wild Wild West and images, I captured specifically for the publication, are featured in the recent issue #21.
I first contacted Marco Renda, the editor, back in 2008, my objective at that time was simply to get some of my images published. I have been a photographer my entire life, and believe me, I have submitted my wildlife, scenic, floral, and still life pix to many a magazine in the past 20 years and, in most cases, getting no replies from anyone.. Most publications acquire their images from stock photo agencies or have their own photography staff doing the work for them, so to crack the nut and get inside, have your work considered, is a big step. But Marco is an active member at ICMag and I thought, has certainly seen my images here, so I had some un-intentional help.
I was quite surprised to hear back from him in a personal email. His initial response to my images was friendly and warm hearted, but more important to me, was he was interested in publishing some pix for me. I had no idea at that time how my intent and purpose for my images would change because of this newly found friendship and relationship with him and his publication.
I ended up writing an auto-biographical story about my photography and submitted some of my most unique and finest cannabis images for consideration. Those were published in 2008 #14, and since, many more of my stories have been published, along with my images.
As a long time chronic pain sufferer I then found myself getting to know patients world wide on the Internet and offering those patients my feelings, compassion, advice, and any help I could muster up. I was then beginning to realized that just my images were capable of putting a smile on the face of others suffering and that was huge, a big deal. Some of these patients don’t smile very often, they don’t have anything to smile about, they’re in pain, or sometimes even worse, dying. The appreciation I get from my published work is so gratifying. Thank you Marco and Treating yourself for your belief in me, my stories, and my images.
My most recent Wild West story is a true story of the stigma medical marijuana faces in our rural ranching and farming communities in the Wild West. I hope some of you get a chance to read it, and please, if you do, I'd like to hear from you, would you post here in this thread your comments and criticism of it. Thanks DD.
I am so honored and humbled to be published again in Treating Yourself Magazine. My story Wild Wild West and images, I captured specifically for the publication, are featured in the recent issue #21.
I first contacted Marco Renda, the editor, back in 2008, my objective at that time was simply to get some of my images published. I have been a photographer my entire life, and believe me, I have submitted my wildlife, scenic, floral, and still life pix to many a magazine in the past 20 years and, in most cases, getting no replies from anyone.. Most publications acquire their images from stock photo agencies or have their own photography staff doing the work for them, so to crack the nut and get inside, have your work considered, is a big step. But Marco is an active member at ICMag and I thought, has certainly seen my images here, so I had some un-intentional help.
I was quite surprised to hear back from him in a personal email. His initial response to my images was friendly and warm hearted, but more important to me, was he was interested in publishing some pix for me. I had no idea at that time how my intent and purpose for my images would change because of this newly found friendship and relationship with him and his publication.
I ended up writing an auto-biographical story about my photography and submitted some of my most unique and finest cannabis images for consideration. Those were published in 2008 #14, and since, many more of my stories have been published, along with my images.
As a long time chronic pain sufferer I then found myself getting to know patients world wide on the Internet and offering those patients my feelings, compassion, advice, and any help I could muster up. I was then beginning to realized that just my images were capable of putting a smile on the face of others suffering and that was huge, a big deal. Some of these patients don’t smile very often, they don’t have anything to smile about, they’re in pain, or sometimes even worse, dying. The appreciation I get from my published work is so gratifying. Thank you Marco and Treating yourself for your belief in me, my stories, and my images.
My most recent Wild West story is a true story of the stigma medical marijuana faces in our rural ranching and farming communities in the Wild West. I hope some of you get a chance to read it, and please, if you do, I'd like to hear from you, would you post here in this thread your comments and criticism of it. Thanks DD.
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