[Tex/LaTex] Adding figures on first page of documentclass article

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I'm using the default article documentclass for a document that is just supposed to hold the accompanying figures for a paper.
This is what I'm doing:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{ {path} }
\geometry

\begin{document}\vspace{-10ex}
\title{My title}
\author{Author 1        \and
        Author 2 \and
        Author 3 }
\maketitle  
\\
\\

\center

\section*{Accompanying Figures}

\begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[width=7cm]{twoapproaches.pdf}
\caption{Two approaches to mutli-class vehicle classification}
\label{fig:1}      
\end{figure}\\  
% Few more figures
\end{document}

On the first page I have to put a rather long diagram, but it always shows up on the second page. I thought maybe it just doesn't fit. I reduced the image size but it only comes on the first page if I make it really small. I have an entirely empty first page! How can I fix this? How can I edit the margins/font size of the default article document class?

Best Answer

One suggestion is to use float package and H position, forcing the figure to stay in its position in the text. Just add \usepackage{float} to your preamble and start your figure as \begin{figure}[H].

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