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NEWSLETTER - April 2007



While the internet has grown to be an essential tool for picture researchers as many millions of images have become searchable online, it can still be very hard to track down good images of more obscure locations worldwide, particularly up-to-date images. Our network of almost 9000 photographers in 120 countries means that even if someone does not have a shot of a location you need, if they live locally they will probably be happy to shoot it on spec for you. Some recent examples are:

- Wichita State University, USA
- Turkbuku, Turkey
- South Downs, England

Too easy? How about these for specific requests!

- Munich subway station at Trudering, Germany
- Great East Window, Church of St Peter and St Paul, East Harling, Norfolk, UK
- Signer's Monument at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in NC, USA
- Hotel Tequendama building, Bogota, Colombia


In many cases images have been uploaded within a couple of days of these specific requests from researchers. So, if you are having difficulty sourcing images, stop wasting time and try our Picture Search service today. It's free!


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Ethiopian Fountain Grass or Feathertop or Pennisetum Villosum *** High Resolution 11 MPixel Digital File from Canon 1Ds . This image requires sharpening for best results in print or web *** stock photo
Blue Pearl Photographic are proud to announce the launch of their new website. Buyers can see photographs at much larger sizes than most image websites - a real boon when trying to select images.

Blue Pearl Photographic specialise in abstract and nature images which are used mainly for artworks. The latest work galleries on the website are updated monthly.

All images on the website are available for licensing at commercial rates.
 
Richard Osbourne
Blue Pearl Photographic
United Kingdom
Tel: 01603 629437
Fax: 0870 836 2301
Email: richard@bluepearlphoto.com
http://www.bluepearlphoto.com


Andy Smith is a freelance photographer based in Leeds in the North of England. Andy specialises in commercial, corporate and editorial commissions and travel stock photography. His work is often used in business to business and business to consumer publications/reports. Andy has a practical and down to earth approach and is just as comfortable working alone as he is alongside creative professionals under direction toward a common goal.

As well as servicing International corporations with work in Europe and the Middle East, Andy has a solid base of satisfied local client base who continue to benefit greatly from his work.

To see this work and more please visit Andys online portfolio of work where you can also find information about a constantly growing stock of creative images.
 
Andy Smith
Andy Smith Photography
United Kingdom
Tel: 0044 (0)7917 573 045
Email: smithandy2@mac.com
http://andypsmithphotography.com
Womman on a balcony stock photo


Bonifacio citadel overlooking the yacht basin , Corsica , France , Europe . stock photo
Dick Mundy LRPS will be back in Corsica in May for 10 days and if anyone is interested in any particular views/situations he will be happy to get images on spec. Don't expect any tourism pics, just the places and pics he wishes to avoid - that's why he travels "out of season"(!) but when the weather is good.
 
Dick Mundy
Dick Mundy Photography
France
Tel: 01.64.28.79.69
Email: mundy.in.france@wanadoo.fr


South of Russia based photographer Vladimir Sidoropolev has over 30 years of photographic experience. He is a widely experienced photographer and works for both editorial and advertising clients
 
Vladimir Sidoropolev
Vladimir Sidoropolev Photography
Russia
Tel: +7 918 46 26 837
Email: vladiscom@km.ru
http://www.photographersdirect.com/sidoropolev
Rural still life . South of Russia stock photo


Macro view of a red cactus stock photo
Alan Skyrme has just returned from a trip to the Amazon and has new stock images of Manaus available.

In addition to his studio in Curitiba (Brazil) he will be establishing studio facilities in UK in May with a view to dividing his time between Europe and South America during 2007 and thereafter.

He is available for commissions in the UK, Italy and Spain during May and July. Details of his schedule are available on request by e-mail.
 
Alan Skyrme
Alan Skyrme Photography
Brazil
Tel: 55 41 3018 8851
Fax: 55 41 3016 8850
Email: enquiries@shootstock.com
http://www.alanskyrme.com


Anyone seeking new and different images for commercial or personal purposes might find Kevin Scott's Radial Symmetric Images of special interest.

They are unique and evolved from his original film and digital photos. The name Kevin Scott is shared by other photographers, including one in California, where he was born and raised. Please don’t be confused - he now lives in the UK.

His personal website www.kevinscottphotography.co.uk contains a wider variety of work and he welcomes your comments.
 
Kevin Scott
KEVIN SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY
United Kingdom
Tel: 01892852746
Email: kevinscott5@hotmail.com
http://www.photographersdirect.com/kevinscott
Radial Symmetric Image of a Camellia stock photo


A young woman ( 25 30 ) standing on Parker Ridge with Mount Athabasca in the background in Banff National Park , Canadian Rockies , Alberta , Canada stock photo
Josh McCulloch, one of Canada's premiere outdoor photographers has just launched his keyword searchable e-commerce stock website at http://archive.joshmcculloch.com

Josh's site features rights-managed and royalty-free stock images, with a focus on adventure sports, outdoor lifestyle, and landscape images. All images are from Western North America, with a large collection of photos from Coastal British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies.

Josh's website features make it easy to license images 24/7/365:

- Automated RM and RF image pricing online
- Immediate image downloads after secure online credit card payment
- Free instant "comp" downloads
- Private lightboxes to organize your images
- Model Released people images
- New images being added monthly

Search Josh's archive now to find the right image for your next project!
 
Josh McCulloch
Josh McCulloch Photography
Canada
Tel: 250-216-8028
Email: josh@joshmcculloch.com
http://archive.joshmcculloch.com


James Brunker has recently returned from a photographic trip to the Mendoza and San Juan regions of Argentina and added many new images to his Magical Andes Stock Library. Images featured include collections from Mt Aconcagua, Calingasta Valley, Talampaya and Ischigualasto National Parks and Salta. Other recent additions include images from Trujillo and nearby archaeological sites (northern Peru) as well as many new images from Bolivia (including festivals) where James is based. All images are keyword searchable online.

If you are ever looking for high quality imagery from the Andean countries please get in touch!
 
James Brunker
Magical Andes Photography
Bolivia
Tel: (00591) 72542159
Email: magicalandesphotos@yahoo.com
http://www.magicalandes.com
Spectacular rock formations and skies in Talampaya National Park , Argentina stock photo


Boy in bubble bath stock photo
Here's looking at you kid!

A great image is one that attracts your attention and provokes a reaction, in this case amusement. APL is pleased to promote its conceptual range headed this month by featured photographer Nick Green. Nick spans an extensive range of topics pushing the boundaries of our imagination and having some fun in the process.

APl would love to hear your views on their conceptual images and their NEW website design so please let them know your comments.
 
Tamsyn Jarvis
Adams Picture Library t/a apl
United Kingdom
Tel: 0208 964 8007
Fax: 0208 960 8609
Email: tam@adamspicturelibrary.com
http://www.adamspicturelibrary.com


Artistic Photo Stock / Robert Wojtowicz Photography is a growing collection of Fine Art Botanical, Animal and American Travel images available for Rights-Managed licensing.

Professional quality high resolution digital files are ready for immediate download. RM licensing and file downloads are now fully automated and available online at:
RWimages.com

You can calculate the price for your specific image use, purchase a non-exclusive Rights-Managed License and instantly download a high resolution (approx. 50MB) digital file, as well as create unlimited number of private lightboxes and use advanced stock archive search engine to quickly and exactly find the images you are looking for.

The images have been published in numerous publications, most recently in National Geographic Traveler magazine, and are purchased as prints by fine art photography collectors from all over the world.
 
Robert Wojtowicz
Robert Wojtowicz Photography
United States
Tel: ( 847 ) 514 0699
Email: rw@nym.hush.com
http://www.RWimages.com
leopardess ; female amur leopard ( panthera pardus ) stock photo


Part of the Holocaust memorial at Radegast railway station in Lodz , Poland . Visible is the Hall of Towns with the Column of Remembrance . From where 200000 Jews were sent to Nazi death camps stock photo
Stan Kujawa has been busy photographing Poland, taking photos of landscapes and townscapes and he will be visiting the Picos de Europa (Spain) in May 2007 and Poland in June 2007, passing from Calais in France all the way through to Poland. Please contact him for commissions in these areas.
 
Stan Kujawa
Stan Kujawa Photography
United Kingdom
Tel: 07815 152006
Email: stan.pix@virgin.net
http://www.stankujawa.co.uk


This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Falkland's War in the South Atlantic. The war sparked by the Argentinean invasion of this British colony on 2 April 1982 cost the lives of 655 Argentine and 255 British servicemen as well as 3 Falkland islanders. It was brought to a conclusion on 14 June 1982 with the liberation of Stanley and the surrender of the Argentine forces.

In honour of the dead of both sides, a number of memorials and cemeteries were constructed around the islands. Andrew Gransden can supply high quality photographs of a number of these at San Carlos, Sea Lion Island (HMS Sheffield), Fitzroy and Darwin (Argentine). This includes the gravestone of Lt Col H jones VC, Commanding Officer 2nd Parachute Battlion, killed near Darwin in the battle for Goose Green.

Andrew also has an extensive collection of images from around the Falkland Islands and of the magnificent wildlife.
 
Andrew Gransden
awg Photography
United Kingdom
Tel: +44(0)7971 546303
Email: photos@awgphotography.co.uk
http://www.awgphotography.co.uk
British War Cemetery , San Carlos , Falkland Islands , South Atlantic stock photo


Niger . Sahara desert . Tuareg nomad girl pulls baby camel from its mother after it has nursed to tie it to a stake next to her tent . If left with its mother it would not let the nomads get some of the milk for themselves . stock photo
Victor Englebert, author of nine National Geographic text and photo stories, is travelling to Peru on May 15, and to Ecuador on October 8. He welcomes piggyback assignments.

Victor is also selling his vast collection of close to 100,000 travel images of Africa, South America, and Asia, which includes in-depth documentation of the lives and cultures of some 35 indigenous peoples in those three continents.

Victor’s 17 photo books include award-winning Wind, Sand and Silence: Travels with Africa’s Last Nomads and Aborigines of the Rain Forest: the Yanomami, besides nine self-published ones on Colombia and one on Ecuador.
 
Victor Englebert
Victor Englebert
United States
Tel: 1 610 965 0553
Fax: 1 610 965 0553
Email: victor.englebert@gmail.com
http://www.photographersdirect.com/englebert/search.asp


Nicola Campbell Photography has launched a new website.

Based near Malaga in Southern Spain, Nicola is available for freelance or commision work in Southern Andalucia. She also has a large back catalogue of images of Scotland and Spain which are now being made available as stock photographs.

Her speciallities include landscape, architecture, nature, industrial, commerce and product photography.

See her website for further details.
 
Nicola Campbell
Nicola Campbell Photography
Spain
Tel: 0034 638131175
Email: nicci@ncfoto.es
http://www.ncfoto.es
Sunset and Tree at Eskbank near Edinburgh stock photo


Harps stock photo
As an editorial photojournalist, Marco Secchi has photographed for magazine covers and feature stories, corporate companies including annual reports, brochures, web sites, billboards, lifestyles and products throughout Europe. Marco and his creative team are ready to take on any photographic challenge in any location from London to your backyard or around the world.

Marco is available for worldwide assignments and his images are available as high or low resolution digital files for editorial, advertising or web use. Marco also offers a service providing giclee prints or standard photo printing.

Marco's pictures have been exhibited internationally and two exhibitions are planned for France and Italy during 2007.

His re designed website is now online.
 
Marco Secchi
United Kingdom
Tel: 0845 0506211
Fax: 0845 2803228
Email: studio@sitheanphoto.com
http://www.marcosecchi.com


As New Years Day 2008 ushers in the year of the Beijing Olympics everyone will be scrambling to find unique images of China, because no-one will want to see those Getty and Corbis ones again. But PD clients can select images beforehand, as photojournalist Bruce Holmes will be there in June-July 2007.

Bruce will begin his journey in St Petersburg, before taking the Trans-Mongolian Railway from Moscow across Siberia to Irkutsk and Lake Baikal then via Ulaanbaatar to Beijing. But apart from photographing the imperial grandeur of Beijing and Xian, there’s more. For Bruce will be pulling on his hiking boots to join a small group trek along sections of the original Great Wall in Hebei Province, far removed from the madding crowds of tourists, and camping each evening at typical northern Chinese villages.

Bruce can provide images, a photo essay, or a travel article and image package. For requests or assignments please contact Bruce directly.

 
Bruce Holmes
Bruce Holmes Photography
Australia
Tel: +61 417 470 579
Email: bruce@bruceholmestravel.com
http://www.bruceholmestravel.com
Walking the National Trail alongside Hadrians Wall in the north of England . stock photo


tahr collection " A little yoga to start the day " stock photo
Hornbil Images Pvt. Ltd. is glad to announce that its CEO Mr M. Balan has been nominated as Associate to the International League of Conservation Photographers(ILCP), an initiative committed to promote environmental and cultural conservation through photography. Mr Balan, a noted wildlife photographer of India is one among the 11 photographers nominated this year and only the third Asian to receive this honour.

Hornbil Images have further included in their stock an extensive collection of travel and wildlife imagery of their German partner agency Arco Images for which Hornbil are the representatives in the Asian region. You are sure to find travel and nature images of the world on their website www.shootandstock.com
 
Balan Madhavan
Hornbil Images Pvt Ltd
India
Tel: 0091 471 2332476
Fax: 0091 471 2332476
Email: info@hornbil.com
http://www.hornbil.com


PhotoStock-Israel.com where images, imagination and reality meet.

PhotoStock-Israel.com is proud to announce the launch of a new web site with powerful search capabilities and online licensing and download. PhotoStock-Israel.com specializes in all aspects of Israel including religion, archaeology, agriculture, travel, people, nature and day-to-day life.

PhotoStock-Israel.com also have a vast collection of travel images from around the world such as Mongolia, Thailand, India, Midwest USA, California, Myanmar and others. Moreover, they also carry model released general stock collections of sub cultures, emotions, objects and more.
 
Ilan Rosen
Ilan Rosen Photography
Israel
Tel: 972-54-2159159
Email: ilan.photography@gmail.com
http://www.PhotoStock-Israel.com
Old style balance scale and weights of different sizes stock photo


Man and woman dancing at Malaga fair stock photo
Azure Republic Photography is the work of photographer Malcolm Brice. Presently incorporating around 1900 images through sample galleries and an ever increasing, online searchable image library with keywords and categories.

This representation of his work shows the versatility in his approach to differing subject matter with the aim of being able to produce images that can easily facilitate use in travel, advertising, fine art and editorial. From the commonplace to the unusual and 'off the beaten track' there are images for a diversity of needs.

Images are available for use worldwide under copyright license or they can be purchased as decorative and exhibition prints. All scans, predominantly from Fuji Velvia, are made at Hi Res on an Imancon scanner. Digital files are made to size from RAW files.

Take a look at the web site and register on the image search page to make use of a personal lightbox.
Check out the links page and view a contribution of creative imagery and other images placed with a general stock agency, thereby increasing further worldwide exposure to his online collections.

Finally if you can find what you're looking for send a request by e-mail. Malcolm is always happy to discuss new commissions and projects.
 
Malcolm Brice
Azure Republic Photography
United Kingdom
Tel: 00 44 (0)7963 794959
Email: info@azurerepublicphotography.com
http://www.azurerepublicphotography.com


Patricia Fenn is a freelance photographer based in Crete. Her website shows just a representative selection of images (currently around 1,500 online and counting) from her stock photo-library of over 6,000 images covering a wide variety of subjects but with a special emphasis on landscape/travel and nature/wildlife of the Greek islands.

The website has keyword search and category search facilities coupled with large clear thumbnail images and lightbox facility.

Patricia will travel anywhere in Greece for that special image. She is covering 'The Island Games' in June/July which take place on the beautiful Greek island of Rhodes this year.
 
Patricia Fenn
Patricia Fenn Photography
Greece
Tel: (0030) 28950 31149
Email: patricia@acn.gr
http://PatriciaFennGallery.com
Summer beach babes stock photo
 
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