Join award winning wildlife cameraman Gil Arbel in a once in a lifetime experience – documenting the most spectacular wildlife events, in the most remote locations on earth.

You don’t need any experience as Gil treats you as a guest and you can enjoy the ride or work your cameras – up to you. The most recent trip led by Gil was to spend time among wild Gorillas, which produced some great material: Gorillas in the Mist

Nice and cosy – our office is built into the hill side and heavily insulated. Butterfly garden in front of the main window looking like a ’still life’. Business as usual for us… BT Business Broadband has finally come up trumps by being one of the few national services not to fold up under the weight of snow. Staff also working from home on shared server access.

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2009 was a period of great acceleration for us, unlike trends in the industry, so we are looking forward to working with contributors and customers alike through 2010.

Contact us for still pictures (or motion footage) on global warming, Copenhagen and the future of our planet. Our collection offers a million pictures that really matter.

Click on the image below to see a Pick of the Best.

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Western Climate Change
Desertification
Renewable Energy
Rising Sea levels
Extreme Weather
Flooding
Drought
Overfishing and Pollution
Environmental Rare/ Endangered species

Specialist Stock have shared a selection of our very best wildlife and travel images online with Media Storehouse so you can buy photo gifts, fine art prints and box canvas prints – just in time for Christmas.

Click on any image to start buying…

It is little known that certain pods of killer whales around the world have evolved extraordinary measures to attack and eat sharks – including some of the biggest sharks. Read more online and in this Saturday’s paper…

UPDATE: Aside from the news wires, Specialist Stock is the only specialist library to have any coverage of the flooding in Cumbria owing to our strength in environmental issues. Photographer Ashley Cooper, one of our main providers for our Green Collection, sent in a number of strong images over the last few days. This enabled us to get coverage in at least five national papers, including the main images on two front pages.

We are sorry and respect the loss of life as a result of these floods.

Specialist Stock photographer Ashley Cooper is ‘in’ the floods at Cockermouth with his camera. Sadly his iPhone was in his pocket which is now underwater. We are receiving pictures over the net still and offering them to the national papers for Saturday and Sunday.

We are sorry and respect the loss of life as a result of these floods.

Tigress Productions, using material from Specialist Stock, generated higher viewing figures than average on Tuesday night with 1.3 million viewers tuning in to Five for the latest in the Nature Shock series…. Death Fog!

…Just back from a rewarding week of conferences for Specialist Stock staff. Pleased to have found some new contributors keen to sign up with the fresh perspective on environmental pictures and video that we are looking for. The new genre of photographer!

The feeling in the industry was that both photographer and agency have to diversify, where they sell and specialise in a unique produce to survive. We have always had a good variety of sales channels through our video and stills customer database and we are focusing our product on our world class Green collection.