January Highlights from Nature Picture Library
The renowned nature specialist have started a new year and a new decade by adding some great new content to their site. Read their January 2020 Highlights blog to find out the full story behind the pictures.
Danny Green has returned from Svalbard with great polar bear images, Sergio Hanquet documents the rich marine life of the Canary Islands, and Ann and Steve Toon have great animal behaviour from the Kalahari. You’ll also find out about the latest images from Wild Wonders of China, the grey seals of Heligoland, some of Britain’s smallest bees, intriguing new "kaleidoscope images" and Azerbaijan’s mud volcanoes.
You can view a more extensive gallery of images from the last month here. There is also a January 2020 highlights gallery on NaturePL’s print site, for anyone wishing to order a poster, print or gift.
Photo © Ann & Steve Toon / naturepl.com.
Website: www.naturepl.com
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4Corners Images - Spectacular Sri Lanka
Travel specialist photo library 4Corners presents the colourful diversity of Sri Lanka in photography from Ben Pipe, Jeremy Flint and many more.
From Jaffna to Galle, Negombo to Trincomalee, by rail and bicycle and 4WD, 4Corners photographers have captured the Spirit of Serendip, its smiles and scents, its beaches and temples and the noisy pageant that marks the January Perahera Full Moon, celebrating Lord Buddha’s arrival in Sri Lanka.
See all of their images of Sri Lanka hereand their Sri Lanka gallery here.
Image: Duruthu Perahera Full Moon Celebrations at Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara Buddhist Temple ©Ben Pipe / 4Corners Images.
Website: www.4cornersimages.com
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Jim Erickson Reveals The Art of the Portrait Secrets
Erickson Stock is renowned for decades of excellent stock photography and film. Here in this new video series Jim Erickson lets us in on his secrets to getting brilliant portraits.
Jim Erickson says, “People are by far the most difficult subjects to photograph, but they are fascinating to us all.”
This is a video series on the Art of the Portrait that you won’t want to miss.
Website: www.ericksonstock.com
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Mary Evans’ Greatest Hits
The New Year traditionally ushers in the awards ceremony season, so Mary Evans Picture LIbrary thought they’d present their own mini-version, rounding up a selection of collections, which are not only consistently popular with researchers and photobuyers, but are also completely unique and exclusive to the historical specialist photo library.
If you’re a follower of Collection of the Week, you’ll know Mary Evans represent a wide range of contributors which are both large and small, very wide-ranging or specifically niche. All of them have merit - that’s why they choose to represent them - but the following collections have broad appeal, are only available through Mary Evans Picture Library and are therefore worth a revisit. Click on the collection names to see a representative selection of images from each.
The Illustrated London News Collection, consisting of full runs of nine different publications, is an incomparable visual record of the 19th and 20th centuries. While we have around 30,000 images from the archive online, there are hundreds of thousands more in the physical volumes which are housed here at the library. Consisting of the ILN itself, as well as The Sphere, The Graphic, The Tatler, The Sketch, The Bystander, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Britannia & Eve and The Illustrated War News, this is their first port of call whenever we are asked to search for people, places of events.
The Grenville Collins Postcard Collection is an eclectic cornucopia of visual delights; something of everything, but nothing you’ll have seen before. Another postcard collection, Pharcide, has a more topographical flavour, with a focus on North America.
If you’re a fan of history programmes, you may have seen Peter Higginbotham on your TV screen as he’s an expert on workhouses, asylums and orphanages. His extensive collection of postcards and photographs documenting this aspect of social history is consistently in demand.
The Ronald Grant Film Archive, the image collection of the legendary Cinema Museum in Kennington, is an excellent resource for film stills as well as more general cinema history, while their exclusive representation of the Studio Canal archive is a magnificent collection of first-class stills and portraits from the best of twentieth century British film.
The Robert Hunt Library specialises in military history, particularly 20th century warfare and conflict, while Onslow’s Auctioneers’ archive of historic posters is an accurate reflection of life in wartime as well as the tastes, interests and aspirations of society through the twentieth century.
If it’s classic art and illustration you’re after, then the Dawn & Peter Cope Collection and the Medici Society are your go-to destination for some of the very best illustrators and graphic artists. Likewise, Mary Evans are proud to represent two scions of the social photography genre, Roger Mayne and Shirley Baker.
The TP Archive is a delightful melange of fun and fascinating ephemera, while the glamorous Jazz Age Club collection shines a spotlight on the fashion and entertainment of the art deco era. And a final mention to the always-popular London Fire Brigade archive as well as the high-flying Royal Aeronautical Society.
Don’t forget, this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you would like a search, a quote or have any questions about using Mary Evans Picture Library, please call them on 020 8318 0034 or email them at pictures@maryevans.com.
Website: www.maryevans.com
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Nature Picture Library 2019 Competition Winners
Nature Picture Library’s photographers enjoyed great success in the major 2019 photography competitions. Ingo Arndt’s dramatic puma and guanaco image was a category winner in both Wildlife Photographer of the Year and GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the year, while Stefan Christmann won several awards with his unique emperor penguin coverage.
Alex Mustard, Pal Hermansen, Claudio Contreras and Robin Chittenden also won awards, and many of our photographers received honourable mentions.
Read their 2019 Competition Winners blog to find out more about these award-winning images and the stories behind them, and take a look at their new gallery featuring all the winning and commended images.
Congratulations to all those photographers who were successful in 2019 competitions – and good luck for the new 2020 season!
Photo © Ingo Arndt / Minden / naturepl.com.
Website: www.naturepl.com
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