Whilst it is overcast and tipping down with rain here in England, I’m once again dreaming of the tropics – I can’t wait to head to the South Pacific in October if all plans work out, should give us plenty of time to get some more tropical photographs to keep me inspired through the next winter I am in England. If we time it right we perhaps won’t be back in the county until well into spring, wishful thinking I know. So here is a small collection of images I regularly look at when the days are dreary, knowing I’ll eventually be standing in similar surroundings again with my toes in the ocean. Can’t wait.

These photo’s were taken over my last two trips to the beautiful islands of the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean – pure paradise.

Nine photographs of the architecture and the skyline of Hong Kong from my recent trip.. all these images are represented by the Malaysian stock photography agency: Photo Asia, to see them here please visit photoasia or here if you want to license straight from me via my photoshelter archive.

The jagged tooth like tower blocks, looking up from the Happy Valley Racetrack.

Looking over Hong Kong Park:

The Lippo building, designed to look like Koalas climbing trees!

Looking out from the traditional Star ferry, looking towards Central and Wan Chai.

The neon Hong Kong skyline:

All my images are represented by the Malaysian stock photography agency: Photo Asia, to see them here please visit photoasia or here if you want to license straight from me via my photoshelter archive.

Photoasia, a Malaysian photography stock agency expressed an interest in representing my recent photographs of Hong Kong from my trip in January, and pleased to mention that they were kind enough to use one of my images of the Hong Kong skyline on the front page on their website which was a pleasant surprise, thanks PhotoAsia!

Link: My portfolio on Photoasia
Link: Photoasia website

Just a quick post of some of my favourite ‘movement’ photographs of Hong Kong. In such a fast moving city like this, it seemed the right thing to do to try and show movement within some of my images. This is just a few select photos from my full album that can be found here: Stock Photography Photography of Hong Kong – 2010

Above: Woman flagging down the trams on Johnston Street, Hong Kong.

Above: Looking towards Amiralty from Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Above: Love this image of the hands on his shoulders as they speed past. Cheung Chau island

Above: Speeding through the tiny streets – Cheung Chau island

Above: Street movement – Heading out of Wan Chai, Hong Kong

This is just a few select photos from my full album that can be found here: Stock Photography Photography of Hong Kong – 2010

Some recent photographs of Chinese New Year in Hong Kong 2010, I was fortunate to spend just over a week in Hong Kong in the week leading up to the Chinese New Year, the colours of the decorations were incredible, the amount of shops and stalls selling red and gold coloured festivities was staggering! This is just a few select photos from my full album that can be found here: Stock Photography Photography of Hong Kong – 2010

This is just a few select photos from my full album that can be found here: Stock Photography Photography of Hong Kong – 2010

I have been taking stock photography for the last few years, and have always just had it represented by Alamy Ltd, the largest stock photography agency in the world and have had very good results so far. Over the last year, I have spent quite a lot of time photographing with a good friend, Will Giles (More here) – a leading botanical expert on exotic and tropical gardening. He certainly knows his onions, or bananas I should say, he has a regular slot on BBC Radio Norfolk, has a weekly double page in the Eastern daily press newspaper, writes for many of the leading botanical magazines, published his own books and many other things – as well as travelling round the world lecturing on exotic botanicals.

So we have now amassed quite a large number of stock photographs between us over the years, and now the time has come to combine forces and launch a dedicated stock photography website, primarily will be focused on exotic and botanical stock photography, but will also include my existing commercial and editorial stock library as well.

By stating our own stock photography agency we can keep all the photos in house, as well as being able to offer better pricing as there will be no middle man, we hope to have the largest independent exotic botanical stock library by the end of the year. We currently have over 2500 editorial and commercial images on there, and our botanical selection is growing by the day, as fast as my upload will handle it!

We currently have at least 5-6 thousand exotic botanical images in our offline library, so these will all be added over the coming months.
If you would like to have a look at the botanical and commercial stock photography library please click here.

Thanks,
Chris

Out taking stock photographs a few weeks back, I thought I would stop by the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia – an iconic piece of modern architecture, weird looking but great so for taking photos of with a super wide angle lens. I was using my Sigma 10-20mm on my Canon 40D here, and also using the Cokin filter setup, which I had modified to sit closer to the lens – with Cokin Neutral Density filter 2 stop I think it was.

Also a photograph at the bottom of the beautifully curved part of the UEA, interesting shape and certainly complements the Sainsbury Centre very well.

It was an excellent bright and overcast day, dodging the rain clouds. Personally I love being out taking photographs under heavy clouds, I makes for much more dramitic photography than just bright blue skies..

A few pictures of Norwich Cathedral in Norfolk that I photographed for my stock portfolio recently.

The cathedral never ceases to amaze me, it’s hard to comprehend that it was completed in 1465, having taken over 300 years to build – it’s hard to imagine these days. Incredible.

Norwich Cathedral is one of those places you can go back to a million times and you still just stand there in awe at the 315ft spire.

View more of my stock photography here:

Out taking a few stock photo’s the last few evenings before the weather really turned, taking advantage ofthe golden light on the local straw bales and freshly cut wheat fields, was great to be outside in the dwindling sunshine. Here are just a couple of pics from the outing, a couple of the bales hay in the evening light, also an image of the leaves on a horse chestnut tree starting to turn to brown as I left the field.

I’ve just updated and added a large number of stock photographs of around the Norwich area, including pictures of The Forum Millennium Library, Norwich Castle, The Royal Arcade, Castle Meadow and Norwich Lanes.

There are also a number of photo’s of the surrounding churches, such as on St Benedicts Street, St Giles and St Gregory’s.

We now have over 150 image of Norwich available for instant purchase for rights managed, licensed download for editorial use. Please see my site for more details.

To view my images please click here : Stock Photography Norwich

Thanks,

Chris – www.11thStudio.com/stock