Enjoy stunning stock photography at 'Hicker Photo'

Photography has become a child's play due to easy use of cell phone and digital cameras. Taking stunning and high resolution pictures is easier than before. There are a lot of sites around the net where you can enjoy browsing the stunning adventure travel pictures. I love to browse the travel and adventure travel picture sites as it is a way of having fun sitting at home.

'Hicker Photo' offers stock photography which is really stunning and you can have fun browsing through the stunning pictures. Let's learn about the term 'stock photography'

'Stock photography' consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.

A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money, but can also sacrifice creative control. Stock images can be presented in search able online databases, purchased online, and delivered via download or email.

'Hicker Photo' is one of the most popular travel stock photography and travel websites with over 3 million visitors per month. The site is owned by Rolf Hicker who is well known both internationally for his work as a nature, travel, and wildlife photographer and filmmaker.

Travel Information & animal, nature and travel stock photography by award winning photographer Rolf Hicker
Travel goes hand in hand with stock photography - both are our life and passion.

You can find free travel information and travel stock photography - collected over many years of traveling, and ideas for "not so known" destinations.

There is a collection of digital stock library of over 15,000 pictures. They offer rights managed animal (mostly wildlife), nature and travel stock photography as well as licenses for stock photos. These images are available in mediums such as high resolution files, quality fine art prints, and mouse pads with nature photos.

Useful links:
- 'Foto search' - a provider of royalty free and rights managed stock photography, illustrations, maps, video, and audio.

- 'Acclaim images' provides free photo research alongwith high quality, limited distribution digital images and art. prints.

Learn free online photography tips and techniques

Inernet has become a rich source of information for hobbies. You can search and get hobby ideas which helps you learn and choose them as your pastime. You don't need to join any course or read books to learn photography, world wide web has offered many useful resources and links where you can learn photogaphy tips and techniques for free.

* Photo.net is an online community with hundreds of thousands of active members and many more casual viewers visiting daily. It started in 1993 helping people who wish to become better photographers.

* Photography.comPhotography.com is a comprehensive online source of information for amateur and professional photographers alike. Providing in-depth articles on everything from equipment to techniques. Product reviews help users make important decisions on how and where to spend their money. Photography.com also offers an extensive collection of stock photos that can easily be searched and sorted to quickly find exactly what you're looking for

* Photography tips is intended to help beginners get started in photography, and become so good at it that they turn into advanced amateurs. It also offers useful tips and hints for accomplished photographers. You have to be a member if you want to access whole site content. But still you can access many site features.

Free Online Photography Course

Photography is one of the popular hobbies which is a profession as well. I still love to take pictures and it is one of the hobbies I enjoy most. As photography is directly linked to scrapbooking, you can easily use your photos to make artistic projects. I remember taking pictures with my first 'Yashica' camera. Now I have 'Sony'cybershot, 8 mega pixol which my 9 year old son can handle very easily. Even my cell phone has camera can take 2 mega pixol pictures and the pictures are really nice. I believe that despite of huge development in technology, you still need to learn about photography. Digital cameras has made 'photography' a child's play, as you can take high difinition pictures within seconds. Learning photography has become easier due to latest digital cameras, and by applying some tips and techniques you can create wonderful pictures.
This post is about a FREE online photography course and as it is from a professional photographer, you can learn it easily while sitting at the comfort of your home. Either photography is your hobby or not, you can still learn from this online tutorial.

Jodies Coston's Free Online Photography Course

Freelance photographer Jodie Coston offers a free online course in photography, covering everything from aperture to zoom.

The course is divided into 10 lessons, each presented with loads of sample photos and assignments at the end. Coston employs a friendly, personal style and provides plain-English descriptions of complicated subjects. Even better, host site morgueFile maintains a separate discussion board for each of the lessons, so you can ask questions, share info with your "classmates," etc.
This course is actually a couple years old, but it's still an excellent introduction to photography.
(You can't download the lessons as PDFs they're in HTML)

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- Photography tutorials at 'YouTube'

- Rick Sammon's Top Ten Digital Photography Tips at YouTube

- 30 Photos That Inspired Me to Learn Photography

(Note: Both pictures of this post are taken by me, with a 2 mega pixol Nokia N70 camera)