The latest updates from libraries featured on this site

Ecoscene
Ecoscene now has an online search facility. Clients can preview images and order high res files. More than 3000 images already on the database and hundreds are being added each month.

Billie Love Historical Collection
Billie Love has assembled a collection of historical images dating back to the 19th century and covering a wide range of subjects in black and white and colour.

World Religions
A comprehensive collection of religious images assembled by Christine Osborne and other contributing photographers.

Sylvia Cordaiy Photo Library - Very interesting new contributors

Chris and Sally Gable placed all their transparencies with this library at the end of 2000, approx. 5,500. Since then they continued their travels this year and the total is now over 6,000 covering 61 countries. Chris and Sally have been travelling overland since the 7th April 1997. A little background information, Sally has a degree in Geography and Cartography from Oxford and an MSc in Remote Sensing (satellite imagery etc) from UCL. Chris is from New Zealand and has degrees in Marketing and Economics. Chris has worked as a geologist in Australia, been a tour leader for Dragamon and is currently writing a zoology paper at the University of Otago on animal behaviour, with the intention of working for The Natural History Unit. Both have won photographic awards, Chris winning a highly commended place in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in 1991. They are now based in New Zealand, where Chris is studying and Sally has been working as a cartographer, as she had also done in London for Readers Digest and Dorling Kindersley, whilst they were planning the overland adventure, Sally is now travelling again.

Listing of the Gable's overland travels:

April 7th 1997, left U.K. headed through France and Spain, arriving in Africa at Ceuta on the 24th April 1997. They then criss-crossed Africa until 14th September 1998 photographing in the following countries: Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia , South Africa, Swaziland, Mauritius and then onward to Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece , Italy, Switzerland, France, Monaco, Sicily, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Germany Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France arriving back in the U.K. 13th October 2000. After a few months sorting and listing the

pictures, each image is identified with date taken and latitude and longitude and description. They left the U.K. on the 2nd November 2000 for Cambodia, then on to Hong Kong and Macau, arriving in New Zealand December 2000, since then they spent the first two months of this year photographing both North and South Islands. All the above material is now on file and available to publishers.

New material, now available, includes The Galapagos Islands, Madagascar and the Seychelles Plus, the great 'J' class yachts, vintage and classic boats from the America's Cup Jubilee, from the event in August 2001

Other News from Sylvia Cordaiy ;

Our other photographers have travelled extensively over the last year, shooting wonderful images to update existing files, including some of the following: New Zealand (again), Nepal, India, Turkey, Italy, Greece, France (over 7,000 images on file), Spain, Ireland, Norway, U.S.A. (over 7,000 images on file), South America, Caribbean, plus considerable coverage of London ( over 13,000 images on file), U.K. counties particularly Sussex, Wiltshire and Yorkshire, Natural History , The Environment and associated issues, Agriculture, Livestock and Pets. We continue to expand the collection of backdrops and special effects.

Londonstills.com
This is a completely new picture archive dedicated to London, presenting the capital city in a new perspective. The collection covering everything from the bustle of Notting Hill Carnival to a lazy afternoon fishing in the Regent’s Canal.

Alan Copson Pictures
Comprising a file of around 20,000 images based on the work of photographer Alan Copson, Alan Copson Pictures specialises in European Cities. Particularly detailed coverage of London. The treatment given to the subject varies from blue-skied realism to black and white abstract. A showcase of work can be seen in the keyword-searchable online catalogue at www.alancopsonpictures.co.uk.

John Miller Photography
John Miller has a wide ranging collection of images featuring landscapes, travel, food and interiors.

Stock Scotland
Stock Scotland have extensive files of Scottish images and a new on-line search facility on their website.

Mark Azavedo
Mark's new site features both his commissioned work and his stock library. The library covers a wide range of social and religious subjects.

Wildlife and Countryside Images
Wildlife photographers Frank Blackburn and Michael Gore have combined their libraries to produce a distinctive photographic archive aimed at the design and advertising markets.

New material from Christine Osborne Pictures
Christine Osborne Pictures / MEP has new stock from the following areas : Guinea Conakry, Mauritius, North Cyprus, Iran, Greece, Singapore. Also religion. Visitors to the Millennium Dome will find images from both libraries in the Faith Zone. New CD-ROMS on World Religions, Arab Travel, Middle East Food and the acclaimed Patterns and Textures featuring exotic images from all over the world. Photographers will be visiting Uganda, Mozambique, Egypt, Mali and Eritrea in the first quarter of 2000. Commissions accepted, details copix@clara.net and co@MiddleEastPictures.com

La Routa Maya - the Maya Route
Picture Researchers seeking New Images of the Central American Maya sites, many only to be found in remote and overgrown rain forest, should contact John Noble at Wilderness P.L. La Routa Maya transcends political borders to unite five nations with a shared Maya heritage: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. This collection covers many of these impressive sites, plus the colonial, cultural, and colourful aspects seen en-route.

Steve Newman has an extensive collection covering Northumberland. He also takes photos of DIY and leisure activities. As a photojournalist, he has an opportunity to test new pieces of kit.

WildCountry is a collection of images taken by David Paterson. He concentrates on landscapes, mountains and general travel with specialist collections of Scottish Highlands and Nepal.

Capture ^TMAbbie Enoch of Travel Ink markets a library management software package. Capture^TM is a fully featured picture library management system which incorporates an image/database browser with Web capabilities so images can be viewed, selected, and marketed over the internet. It has a series of flexible modules which can be adapted to suit almost all needs - from the library requiring sophisticated management and sales tools, to the single photographer who just wants to caption, bar-code and view images in an image database. For further details contact Abbie at capture@capture.co.uk or check out her web site www.capture.co.uk

Arctic Journey

'All women expedition reaches the North Pole : Yesterday (May 26 1997) at 22.45 central time, the women's polar relay expedition reached the North Pole. This is the first ever women's expedition to successfully complete the entire journey from Ward Hunt Island (northern Ellesmere Island) to the North Pole. '

Just out, October 99 .... "Matty McNair's book On thin Ice is a real first and a truly remarkable book. Its the story of a strong-willed woman who led a crew of housewives, office workers, mothers and doctors, students, or, to put it simply, women from all walks of life, to the North Pole. Most had never slept in sleeping bags and never experienced intense cold, much less walked on pack ice. The interactions are fascinating, the thin ice mesmerizing as Matty holds it all together to make it possible. What a tale!"
Rita Matthews, Polar Research Scientist and VP Explorers Club

The UK price will be about Ł17.50 and copies can be obtained from Wildnerness Picture Library Tel +44 1539 620196 or fax +44 1539 621293 or email Wildernessphoto@btinternet.com

Wilderness Photo Library hold images that document this Arctic journey all the way to the pole.

Underwater collections and much more
Ecoscene has just taken on an extensive collection of underwater images, including coral reefs, coastal waters of the UK, California, wrecks and much more. Sally Morgan of Ecoscene has new material covering her recent trips to Australia (Fraser Island and Great Barrier Reef), Thailand (Bangkok temples and traffic, markets, rainforests, ecotourism) and Virginia and Washington DC (Skyline Drive, forests, gardens, Williamsburg, Montichello, salt marshes, ospreys, buildings in Washington DC, traffic controls.)