Once upon a time, we got quite a bit of mail in the office from students looking for magazine internships. We couldn't accommodate too many, being a small office with limited space and resources. But an email from Edmonton, Alberta caught our eye when a photography student pleaded: "Please don't make me spend my intern week in a Sears portrait studio." OK, he had us there.
So Scott drove to town. We met and talked about upcoming bits we might need for future issues. Then he wandered around taking photos and delivered all his images to us at the end of the week. These are the ones we liked the most. The first photo ended up on a page called Non-Linear Conversation in Issue 13: Beauty.
I don't believe Scott works in photography anymore but we hope he had a good week. Some people will always have Paris; we will always have this cat. This evil, evil cat. Here's how it turned out on the page (click for a pdf version).
(The cat illustrations, by the way, are by Aaron Leighton, who has gone on to do lovely award-winning things in Toronto. Aaron shocked and awed his way into our hearts and minds by sending us an email telling us our first design effort waaaay previous to our no-ads version needed fixing. He was right. Today, his approach is still known as the "You Suck!" method of finding freelance illustration work, second only to the "That's Pa-THET-ic!" method of finding freelance editing work.)