Digital Railroad member Dorit Thies created these beautiful images now available in Marketplace and shares this story about their creation:

© Dorit Thies/drr.net

"After having done many health and fitness shoots for the past couple of years, 'Beauty' photography has become my latest passion. Make-up artist Iris Moreou and I have collaborated on a few shoots lately which were based on our own concepts. Our inspiration in this case came from flowers and plant elements.

© Dorit Thies/drr.net

Right after the shoot I offered the series of six images to Monika Steinberg,
the former Editor in Chief of "Foam" magazine and she immediately jumped on it. We got the spring '08 cover of "Foam" magazine plus a 6 page spread of beauty images.

© Dorit Thies/drr.net

After being on the news stands for two weeks I got a call from LORAC cosmetics
and got hired to shoot their fall campaign. A good example on how success comes when believing and following your gut instinct and giving yourself an assignment."

See more of Dorit's work in Marketplace and her archive.

New to Digital Railroad and available for licensing through Marketplace: Juice Images, a premium brand, lifestyle collection high on emotion, real life and a springboard for your imagination. The hallmarks of the Juice collection are a zest and freshness which captivate the client and resonate with the aspirational consumer.

For images that are high-end, polished, evocative and layered with style get some Juice for edited, model released collections reflecting the rhythm of life.

© Juice Images/drr.net

© Juice Images/drr.net

Get more Juice in Marketplace - and through June 30th save 25% on this terrific new collection!

Picturehouse Chicago is coming soon and we'll be ready to see our buyer friends in the Windy City.

We'll be featuring our new display (shhh, super secret), announcing some fantastic new collections, giving away (as usual) natty tees and our latest must have accessory, the exclusive DRR designer shoulder bag.

Photo buyers can register to attend FREE. So, if you're in Chicago, April 16th, be sure to come by and say hello to our Chicago-based MidWest Sales Manager Christopher Beauchamp, check out some fresh images and get your free cool merch. I mean isn't that the real reason we go to trade shows?

© Blend Images/Erik Isakson/drr.net

Blend Images has just loaded a set of fresh, new images to Marketplace. We're big Blend fans at DRR and no wonder: great photographers and fresh images featuring lots of diverse talent-- always in demand by buyers. And, if you haven't heard, not that we're keeping it a secret, Blend has added a new 500K file option for purchase at the incredible price of just $49.

Like we said, what's not to like?

Delighted to see the work of Jimmy Williams added this month to Marketplace. Too many superlatives to be contained in a single blog entry so we'll let the pictures do the talking.

© Jimmy Williams/drr.net

Jimmy Williams’ most recent passions include two series that have been compiled over the past few years. In VIVA L'ITALIA you will take a journey through Italy seeing its many splendors accentuated by Williams’ fine art style of photography. As he toured the rolling hills of Tuscany and the dramatic coastal regions he captured the heart of Italy found in its people and their many persona.

© Jimmy Williams/drr.net

SOUL is Williams’ intimate portrayal of Southern Blues Musicians, their families, and other local subjects that portray the heart & soul of the Southern United States.

© Jimmy Williams/drr.net

Recent commercial accomplishments include campaigns for Barilla, Hyatt, Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa, Lowe’s, British Virgin Islands Tourism, Costa Cruise Lines, Carnival, and more.

See more of Jimmy's images in Marketplace.

Photo Credit: Sephi Bergerson/drr.net

Crack open the current issue 1:2008 of ASPP's "The Picture Professional" to see our new full page ad. Thanks to member Sephi Bergerson for sharing the story behind the image.

Photo Credit: © Bowater/Mira/drr.net

Look for this image of The Palais Royal by member Bowater/MIRA in the May issue of ELLE Brasil.

Do you know of other killer photos of Paris in the Marketplace? If so, cut and paste the image link from Marketplace into the "comments" of this post and let the rest of us see your editing chops.

Here's one of my personal favs by Galen Rowell also from the Mira collection.

Merci!

High end travel tour operator Abercrombie & Kent feature multiple images from Digital Railroad Marketplace in a new catalog promoting exclusive private tours of "Africa: Desert Kingdoms and Natural Splendors."

Photo Credits: Jardin Majorelle in the Ville Nouvelle of Marrakech, © John Warburton-Lee/Danita Delimont/drr.net; Tower of Spices, © Sam Bloomberg-Rissman/drr.net

Photo Credit: Priest with Cross, Ethiopia, © Wolfgang Kaelher/drr.net

Traveling and photographing on assignment throughout the United States and Europe for several decades, Jessie Walker has uniquely captured design statements in thousands of homes as well as formal and informal gardens and an outstanding variety of holiday and studio set-ups featuring collections of antiques.

© Jessie Walker/drr.net

Magazine Credits include: American Style, Architectural Digest, Better Homes & Gardens, Cottages & Bungalows, Country Living, Country Living Gardener,Country Sampler, Home Magazine, House Beautiful Decorating Ideas, Midwest Home Chicago, Old House Interiors, Romantic Homes, Woman's Day and more.

Honored for the photography of interiors by The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Jessie Walker continues with a stream of new assignments capturing innovative likenesses while continually adding fresh images to her stock library. ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) Member. SAA (Stock Artists Alliance) Member.

See more of Jessie's images in Marketplace

© Image Source/drr.net
Just in time for the Beijing Olympics, our friends from Image Source has just added to Marketplace some terrific new images featuring Olympic themed images. All model released, all the time.

This month's ad from the ongoing "Believe Your Eyes" campaign for photo buyers, includes a portrait of blues musician Macavine Hayes image produced by Digital Railroad member Jimmy Williams during a long term project to document blues guitarists located in the rural south. Creative Review is the UK's top creative advertising trade publication. Look for Jimmy's wonderful image in the May issue's inside front cover.

With a concentration of top photographers, media companies - publishers, advertising, design, broadcast, corporate-- and picture libraries, London's photo community is incredibly vibrant and diverse. It was therefore wonderful to see so many picture buyers, photographers and agency members turn out to attend the BAPLA Picture Buyer Fair this week.

Opening night reception, BAPLA Picture Buyer's Fair, London, May 7, 2008
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During the opening night reception, BAPLA announced annual awards for newspapers with the highest percentage of images published with proper photo credit. The winners were The Sunday Independent with 73% pf published images credited; Telegraph with 64%. The Sun was chastised for having the lowest percentage with only a mere 37% of all published images appearing with a credit.

Digital Railroad UK Sales Manager Andy Mitchell meets picture buyers at BAPLA.
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The most well received featured at the show for Digital Railroad was our Research Network. After being introduced to the service, several buyers were so excited by the potential to tap 1000's of member archives for fresh images, they entered requests for images before leaving the show floor.

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UK Member Support Manager James Jones demos Digital Railroad archives to Angela Murphy.

Of course, no BAPLA fair would be complete without "tipping a few jars" with editors and picture buyers at Cantina, an annual tradition. As usual, the place was packed with revelers spilling out on to the sidewalk to enjoy laughs among friends and colleagues.

London's photo community gathers at Cantina Augustus Pub post-BAPLA, May 7, 2008
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See more images from this years event and mark you calendar for next year!