© Jackie King / drr.net

Latest in our series on the Digital Railroad sponsored Lightroom Adventure Tasmania photographers is Jackie King. Jackie produces images ranging from hyper-realistic to avant-garde abstraction that define her idiosyncratic style. She honed her photography skills in the United States at the Maine Photographic Workshops and then with fine art photographer John Paul Capongiro. Jackie is the recipient of numerous awards, including UK British Professional Photographer and British Portrait Photographer of the Year, both in 2005. She serves on the board of directors for the British Institute of Professional Photography.

Jackie's Tasmania photos yet again show a different viewpoint on the rich subjects the adventure had to offer.


© Jackie King / drr.net

Inspired by the early mornings, luscious light and stunning landscape, Jackie captured ethereal atmospheres, finding peace and tranquility in the delicate mornings. Jackie's work in Tasmania, which contained a series called "Love & Clutter", was exhibited in June as part of a group show in London.

See more of Jackie's work in Marketplace!

Xulio Villarino is an independent photographer based in A Coruña, Spain. Xulio's Featured work in Marketplace includes environmental disaster recovery, sustainable energy and contemporary lifestyles along with extensive coverage of travel destinations throughout Spain.

Volunteers working recovery from oil spill, Pedriña, Muxía, Spain
© Xuilo Villarino/drr.net

The dwarfed bristle Vietnamese Araceli (Celi), eating an ice cream of cucurucho given to him by his owner, Mugardos, To Corunna, Spain
© Xulio Villarino/drr.net

A cow near a wind turbine, Lugo, Spain
© Xulio Villarino/drr.net

The wet suit of a volunteer covered with crude oil thrown by the black tide of the Prestige, Or Coido de Muxía, To Corunna, Spain
© Xulio Villarino/drr.net

Sveva Sanseverino shares with us images from "Inner States" a long term project about the Stars and Stripes.

God Bless America, New York, NY
© Sveva Costa Sanseverino/drr.net

"It first began after helping on Ground Zero. When the flag HAD to be flying everywhere. It was a strange flurry all over the city, on taxis, in delis.... mostly immigrants. Feeling no particular kinship to any flag, originating from a few countries, I decided to go on the road in my Van with friend/writer to delve deeply into the complexities of patriotism.

Joe, Truck stop, I-10, Arizona
© Sveva Costa Sanseverino/drr.net

Assembling images and interviews, illustrating the changing trends the Stars and Stripes has borne and is tackling with today. As a Symbol of Freedom .... a Brand... an Icon...

Patriotic Milk...
© Sveva Costa Sanseverino/drr.net
I am returning on the road, visa allowing, in September to do another stretch, combining the elections."

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Members are adding new images every day. Stay current before and during the Games with DRR's 2008 Summer Olympics Photo Feed.

Famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming holds the torch as the ninth torch bearer during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games torch relay in Beijing, China, Aug. 6, 2008. The Olympic torch relay began its final leg in Beijing from the landmark Forbidden City Wednesday morning.
© Xinhua News Agency/eyevine/drr.net

A young Chinese man shows his national spirit with face paintings of Olympic symbols and Chinese flags after an Olympic Torch Ceremony at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China, on August 6, 2008. The Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies will be held August 8.
© Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI/drr.net

The run up to the games has the organizers and athletes getting primed and ready for this summer's Olympic games. Digital Railroad members based in and/or traveling to China have stocked the virtual shelves of Marketplace with images documenting the preparations underway. See fresh new images from Colin Galloway, Ryan Pyle, Natalie Behring, Adam Dean, Bill Hustace, David Banks, Peter LLewellyn, and many others all in Marketplace.

Workers from Mongolian Cow attend a seminar on how to cheer at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Tongzhou, China
© Adam Dean/drr.net

If you're looking for a deeper select, see our library of more than 32,000 images for a wide selection of the people, culture, politics, and landscapes of today's China.

ASK TongFang has been selected to manufacture the contact-less inlays for the 17 million RFID tickets of the XXIX Olympiad. Security is a high priority in the preparation of the games, and RFID tickets will be used for the sales and verification of tickets to eliminate counterfeiting.
© Sebastien Nogier/Ip3press/drr.net

These photos show the test pilots of Scaled Composites, aerospace engineer Burt Rutan's amazing company based in Mojave, California. Rutan & his company designed and built White Knight and SpaceShipOne which together won the $10 million X-Prize in 2005. SpaceShipOne now resides (for all time) in the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Burt Rutan and White Knight One
© Jim Sugar/drr.net

On July 28th, Rutan & Scaled will roll out White Knight II, which will carry a new, larger SpaceShipTwo. SSII will carry a maximum of eight people, six paying passengers and two pilots. It is a suborbital spaceplane for carrying future space tourists. White Knight II is the four-engine lifting body that will haul SSII from the ground to approximately 60,000 feet before releasing the smaller rocket ship.

© Jim Sugar/drr.net

The photo above shows the group of six test pilots in a group with Burt Rutan and also with White Knight One in the background. The pilots include Mike Melvill, Brian Binnie, Peter Siebold, Matt Steinmetze, Clint Nichols, and Mike Alsbury.

Photographer Jim Sugar has been photographing Burt Rutan and his amazing flying machines for more than 25 years. His first photos of Burt occurred when Rutan founded the Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1983. Since then his photographs have chronicled Rutan's career through several dozen aircraft both in flight and on the ground. At present, Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, employees more than 300 people. Scaled's six test pilots comprise the greatest collection of civilian test pilots ever assembled and arguably the finest collection of test pilots since NASA started the Mercury astronaut program.

See more of Jim Sugar's images in Marketplace.

Dave Welling has been photographing wildlife and the natural environment for almost 20 years and constantly seeks out new locations for scenic and wildlife subjects.

Rugabo Silverback Mountain Gorilla, Zaire
© Dave Welling/drr.net

"A self-taught photographer, I began my career "focusing" on wildlife and the environment, two areas I feel very passionate about. I believe if you concentrate on the things you know and love it will be reflected in your work. In the late 1980's I visited the Virungas Mountains in Zaire to photograph highly endangered mountain gorillas (there were less than 500 in the wild at that time). I was one of the last people to photograph the magnificent silverback gorilla, Rugabo, the only mountain gorilla killed in the genocide that struck that area soon after my departure. My images of Rugabo brought home to me the power of photography as a means of recording those precious things we have lost.

Mountain Lion Sitting on Rocks on Craggy Hillside, Montana
© Dave Welling/drr.net

Since then, I have concentrated on creating images of wildlife, and their habitat, that capture something of the essence of the animal as well as the environment in which it lives. For over 20 years I have also worked with a phenomenal wildlife rescue facility that has cared for over 50,000 wild animals. At this facility, I have been fortunate to work with and photograph African lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, gray wolves, mountain lions, exotic birds and reptiles and native wildlife, many of which were confiscated from private parties who kept them illegally as pets. I have become very interested in the illegal trade in wildlife for pets and am working on a book about the animals I have known at this facility, including Navarre, a gray wolf, that I helped raise from a small pup and worked with for over 15 years. I hope this book will help alert the public to the magnitude of this worldwide problem that causes significant species loss and habitat destruction."

Turret Arch Through North Window Arch after Snowfall, Arches National Park, Utah
© Dave Welling/drr.net

See more of Dave's images in Marketplace.

Photo Credit: Ghilsain & Marie David de Lossy/Cultura/drr.net

Our latest ad, featuring an image from Ghilsain & Marie David de Lossy, appears in the Communication Arts Photography Annual special edition (August 2008). With the deluge of advertising we are seeing promoting microstock, Digital Railroad's Marketplace offers a clear distinction in breadth and quality of images. Photo buyers looking for a fresh images-- created by professional photographers expressly to meet the needs of creative professionals in advertising, design and publishing-- should make DRR their first stop for great images.

Digital Railroad members are responding to the high price of gas with an incredible array of image related to oil, gas and energy production - both traditional and alternative. Here are just a few samples of oil and energy related images we've received in the last few weeks:

A trader reacts in the oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange after oil hit a record high of over $147 per barrel on July 11, 2008 in New York. The price increase was spurred by fears of supply disruptions and growing tensions with Iran following their missile tests earlier this week.
© UPI Photo/Monika Graff/drr.net

Conserv Fuel Gas Station sells Biodiesel and Ethanol, Brentwood, Los Angeles County, California, USA, June 2008
© Peter Bennett/Ambient Images/drr.net

Off shore oil drilling operations off the coast of Thailand
© Gaylon Wampler Photography/drr.net

General Motors Chairman and CEO G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. speaks during a news conference before General Motors 100th Annual Meeting in Wilmington, Del. June 3, 2008. Later Wagoner Announced new products and capacity adjustments.
© Brian Branch Price/drr.net

Gas dribbles from the nozzle in one of the gas stations in Qazvin, 83 Miles (150 Km) from Tehran, Iran, April 28, 2006. The price of gasoline in Iran is 165 Rials per liter, about seven cents ($.07 USD) per gallon. (As of April 2008, The Huffington Post reported "Baghdad subsidies let Iraqis pay only about $1.36 a gallon." - Editor's Note)
© UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah/drr.net

Also see:

Tim McGuire - Concept gas pump handle over interstate
Peter Bennett, Torin Boyd, Jeremy Sutton Hibbert - Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Paul Andrew Lawrence - Aerials of Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline
Tony Cordoza: Concept Oil Drums
Russell Gorden - Energy Research and Production in Argentina
Peter Bowater: Oil Production in Africa, Amazon, Australia, North Sea, Papua New Guinea, Scotland
Royalty Free - Moodboard, DesignPics, Images Source, Joe Sohm and more

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Peter McArthur combines wit and irony with his exceptional skills as an image maker. We love Pete's work at DRR and trust you will too. See more in Marketplace and subscribe to the RSS photo feed to get new images delivered to your desktop as soon as Pete spins them out of his Culver City studio.

© Pete McArthur/drr.net

Ring of computer mice surrounding cheese on yellow
© Peter McArthur/drr.net

Little man returning home in a money forest
© Peter McArthur/drr.net

Retro station wagon with earth on its roof against orange over yellow
© Pete McArthur/drr.net

With media coverage for China now focused on the Beijing Olympics, to provide an alternative view of the Chinese and what's on their mind, Digital Railroad member Adrian Fisk makes his "iSpeak China" story set available exclusively in the US through Marketplace.

"For the last few centuries the west has dominated economics, politics and culture. But now there is a shift towards the east, in particular China, a country of 1.4 billion people of which we know little about. It is the young Chinese who will inherit this new found global influence, but who they and what do they think about life. I have just returned from a 12500 km journey through China to find an answer to this question. I looked for young Chinese aged from 16 – 30 years, gave them a piece of paper and simply told them they could write what ever they wanted to on the piece of paper. The results were fascinating."

Each image includes a brief bio about each person depicted in the series and a translation from the Chinese (where needed) for each quote or reflection provided by the subject.

'Before I die, I want to see a united China. Both united with its self and with the world.'
Wendy Xhang - 20 Yr Law Student studying in Canada, Great Wall of China
© Adrian Fisk/drr.net

'I want to save peoples lives.'
Heng She Dong - 16 Yrs, Junior high school student, Qinghai Province
© Adrian Fisk/drr.net

'Now days many young people do not care about the development of China and the world. They only care about themselves and ignore other people and things around them.'
Jia Jia - 25 Yrs (Day) Mobile phone after sales service / (Evening) Studying marketing management / (Night) Professional nightclub dancer, Guangxi Province
© Adrian Fisk/drr.net

Images are available for licensing immediately as a story set exclusively to publishers in the US through DRR Marketplace. For a price quote, please contact images@drr.net or call toll free +1.877.203.3772.

Images from Digital Railroad members covering the Beijing Olymics don't tell a happy story. As we get within 10 days of the start of the games, will the situation improve? For the health of the athletes, let's hope the air clears soon.

Chinese security guard keeps watch over the Bird's Nest Stadium in Olympic Green in northern Beijing, which is shrouded in a heavy cloud of pollution. July 14, 2008
© Natalie Behring/drr.net

See more pre-Olympic highlights and stay tuned throughout the games with our Olympics RSS Photo Feed