getting the right picture - hopefully

Himself and I are off to Rome in October and I outlined an article that I propose to write and pitched it to an editor. I got a very quick reply saying that unfortunately they have recently printed an article about Rome (sod's law) but they would be very interested in the photographs that I said I could provide to back up my article and have asked to see them. I know it's not an offer of anything and maybe they were just being polite but it made me happy.