PORTUGAL: LISBON

Gordon Burgett
P.O. Box 6405, Santa Maria, CA 93456
(800) 563-1454 / fax (805) 937-3035 / gordon@gordonburgett.com



 
You might also enjoy Gordon’s blog called Burgett_travel_writing


 

Remnants of the earthquake that leveled Lisbon 

A peacock in the Botanical Garden politely uses the stairs

The graceful skeletal remains of the once largest church in Lisbon, now a reminder of the massive 1735 killer earthquake.

An off-the-path, poorly tended park that is nonetheless a hidden find of exotic plants, towering palms, and aloof peacocks


 
 

The King Consort's technicolor Palacio da Pena

A nineteenth-century Disneyland

Days of hiking possible just outside of Lisbon

Finished in 1885 and now a popular museum, the Portuguese realm ended here, within sight of Moorish ruins key to the 1147 battles of independence. 

King Manuel II's bedroom sits atop the towering peaks of the Serra de Sintra in the summer royal retreat 30 minutes south of Lisbon.

Dense forests and moss-covered boulders dot the rugged, windswept coast ideal for day picnics or backwoods camping.

If you wish to use any of these photos, either directly pluck them or contact me and I will send them as you wish. I can also show you 68 additional good to excellent digital photos about this topic if you wish to see them in either thumbnail format or as above. Just let me know. The above photos have not be changed through Photoshop or other process so if you wish to further edit them (or see them in black and white), go to it!


The purpose of this page is to show you one way to make your digital photos easily accessible to interested travel editors, while an industry-wide protocol is created around the submission of these pictures.

You submit the manuscript with a cover note, as explained in the seminar "Writing Travel Articles That Sell!" and in the book Travel Writer’s Guide. In that note you indicate the number of photos displayed on link page (5-15 of your best is probably enough, to keep the loading time and storage size to a minimum), plus you tell the website link where they can be found. (That would be www.gordonburgett.com/Portpix.htm in this case.) This presumes that you have a webpage. Some are inexpensive, though you must also pay for the bytes stored; lots of photos displayed forever will add up. (If you have no website, check www.kodak.com or another free site to see how you can post photos at no charge for others to view and download.)

Put a short title under each, then add a caption for each photo below the title. Keep it a sentence or so long, about two lines deep in type. With the general topic (Portugal), your name, address, phone, fax, and email link at top, the only thing missing is the item above, following the photos, that urges the editor to download the photos they want to use. (They know you expect to get paid so no comment is needed about that.)

And that's it. It's the copy that sells unless, by a miracle, you have an extraordinary photo (a whale eating a swimmer or the Leaning Tower suddenly standing straight up). To sell that story and photo you go directly to the news editor for the big bucks!
 

Gordon Burgett

 


 

Gordon Burgett

gordon@gordonburgett.com

(800) 563-1454