Lets address the hard one first, clients come based on your style, for me most of my clients come from either LA, or NYC, now most of mine are also just celectors buying one to three pieces, and in today's economy are not as many as a few years ago.

That is the business thick and thin. What you focus on will drive what you recieve in the form of income.

Now the publishing issue comes a bit easier. Go buy a mag you like, for the sake of posting let try say Glamour mag pay attention you not just the cover and articals but also they style of images in the adds. Now mimick those images until you get the style down for those mags, each month submit four to ten images directly to the publishers editor, include your contact information, stay away from saying anything else. That way the focus is your work, not your needs. Its a numbers game from then on if you match those styles, quality work, right sized image, dpi, focal point, framing, etc.

Editors seldom have time to read emails, they focus on images and the next addition. Now be ready to reshoot anything you submitted, they might want to add something or take something away. Be ready for rejections a lot of them. To them like my models to me, you are replaceable, nothing you do is going to be so different that they havent already seen it, or live with out it, they want speed and quaility in a hurry.

I used to use a rep. now with the internet I have to do most of the work myself. The digital age and all the new camera's drive the value of your work, stock websites are flooded with images, they go to them often its cheeper and sometimes even free for them, with every new camera there is thousands of new shooters, stay on focus, be ready, and keep shooting no matter how many times they say no.

Yay! Another "Capital Spud"!! I'm originally from Boise but now live in NE Oregon.  I look forward to your expertise!