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Themes: Our current interest is landscape, nature, street and cityscape photography and for 2023-2024 we will publish features, articles and interviews with creators from all over Greater Toronto Area.

Generally speaking, we are interested in a wide variety of topics, from creativity and media production, to culture, and lifestyle. Artists, designers, educators, photographer and videographers are welcome to contribute!

If you have an interesting idea please get in touch.

WRITING

Do you write? Our blog is the core of our site and we welcome written contributions.

If you have a draft or an idea about an article we want to hear from you.

PHOTOGRAPHY / ART

Do you take photos or do art and design? Talk to us about your portfolio and we’ll see if your content works with our upcoming blog posts or events.

Get in touch to collaborate.

VIDEOGRAPHY

Do you shoot video? We are expanding our content and we are happy to publish your video content. We are especially interested in portrait aspect reels and landscape aspect ratio video for YouTube.

WHY CONTRIBUTE?

Getting published is great for your portfolio! Contributing to our blog as a writer is an opportunity to promote yourself and develop core digital communication skills. A photo or video clip contribution is welcome too!

WHY SUPPORT TDOT SHOTS?

Tdot Shots was founded to support the photography and creative community in Toronto. We are a grassroots organization and have rewarded our supporters with photo walks, photo contests, and events around the GTA (Greater Toronto Area).

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

It’s easy. You are welcome to reach out via email or complete the submission form.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT CONTRIBUTING

Unless we are working with a sponsor and have a budget we are asking for volunteer contributions. In return we credit you clearly, promote your work as often as we can, and keep you in mind for when we offer paying gigs.

You retain full rights to your work. We will never share your work with a third party and we’ll only use it on our websites and social pages.

We republish writing, photos, video and art. Many blog articles start life as a 250 word caption on Instagram.

MEMBERSHIP AT TDOT SHOTS’ COMMUNITY

Our contributors receive a half year of premier membership at Tdot Studio our community site, and this membership includes access to special events, online courses, and other perks.

HOW TO SHARE YOUR FILES / FILE SPECS

We find a shared folder created in Google Drive works best. Create a Google document for your text.

Writing: 200 words is fine for a draft. We will let you know whether we need a longer article after we review your writing. Content ranges from 500 words for a short blog post to 800 words for a longer feature article.

Photography: Images should be at least 2000 pixels on the short side. Larger images are useful as they allow us to crop. Lightly edited images are best (no extreme vignette, sharpening or saturation). Wide aspect ratio images and portrait images are welcome – however the lead image on our posts is usually wide/landscape.

Video: Individual video clips are fine and edited sequences with at least 3-4 shots are best. 1080p is the minimum and 4k is welcome. MP4s are fine. If we need higher quality video we will let you know.

SEND US AN EMAIL

If you have read our guidelines, have something worthy to contribute, or want to ask a question, drop us a note. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Submit an article / photo: Vis the Submit page.

Email us: Via the Contact page

Thank you for contributing to Tdot Shots!

Mike Simpson
Founder of Tdot Shots and Tdot.com