We prefer digital photos but will accept 35 mm slides. You will need a camera that can produce  high quality JPEG format images when sized to 300 dots per inch are 8 by 10 inches or 2400 x 1600 pixels minimum or larger.

The next best capture setting is the highest-quality JPEG or TIFF.

Digital photos should be sent on a CD, DVD, or flash drive with a paper printout of each shot. Be sure to label the disk (or flash drive) with your name and title of the article.

Be sure to include a caption for every photo. Step-by-step photos should be in color.  The captions can be included at the end of your text story. Be sure to label the photos and captions so we are able to match them up correctly.

Image files should not be corrected or manipulated for color, sharpness, size, cropping, or color mode unless you know what you are doing – and even then we prefer to have an image that has been only been resized (and nothing else) as our starting point. Please label image files that have been altered for content or aesthetics as "altered images".

If you feel you need to place your photos within a text document to better present your story, please also send us your photos and text separately as individual files since we ultimately will need them as separate files.