Categories listed on this page:
Concepts and Moods
The Concepts and Moods section of our stock photography collection centers around contemplation and quietness and also includes concepts such as celebration, shopping, and objects. These are listed in alphabetical order by subject.
- Abstracts
- Amusement parks
- Balloons
- Cats
- Family: canoeing, walking
Fireworks and celebrations- Flight: airplane wing with clouds below
- Graffiti
- Graphics
- Hands: clasped (photo at right), cooking, computing, etc.
- Meetings: Patio chairs/tables and boxes of bags and binders for a conference
- Objects: closeups, unusual views
- Patterns in architecture: stairways, bricks, bridges (wooden and suspension)
- Patterns in nature: rocks, cave ceilings, leaves, branches, clouds, ice on branches
- People relaxing (lake, beach)
- Photography: People photographing, people with cameras
- Reflections in water: trees, boats, buildings, etc.
- Scenics: landscapes, back roads, paths into woods
- Shopping: store displays, people buying and selling
- Signs: Neon at night
- Time: clock towers, neon clock at night
- Worship: stained-glass windows, church interiors, people sitting in churches
See samples on the Concepts & Moods page
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Nature and the Seasons
The Nature section of our stock photography collection focuses on scenics and plants, and covers all four seasons.
- Spring
- Flowers, flowering trees
Summer
- Trees
- Cypress swamp
- Sea oats and sand dunes
- Autumn
- Leaves: fallen (photo at right), on trees
- Trees: singles, groups, reflected in water
- Landscapes
- Winter
- Branches coated with ice
- Snowy hillsides
- Snow-covered trees
- Bare branches against blue sky
- Leaves in frozen puddles
Nonseasonal
- Sunsets
- Clouds
- Rock patterns
- Cave ceiling (basalt) (photo at right)
- Tree bark
- Streams
- Poison ivy
See samples on the Nature page
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Places
The Places section of our stock photography collection focuses on Italy and also covers Scotland, other parts of Europe, and North America. This is by far the largest group of images we have.
Italy
Visit our Gallery. Our first exhibit shows a new sample of images of the interiors of some churches in central and northern Italy.
Our Italy subjects are listed in geographical order, sweeping the country from northwest to southeast.
General
- Graffiti
- Architectural details (windows, doors, gates, chimneys, roofs, etc.) (photo at right)
- Shrines
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Northern Italy
Val d'Aosta
Aosta
- Roman forum
- Roman amphitheater
- Church bell tower, with clock
- Church interior
- Cathedral façade, with frescoes
- Piazza Cernoux
- Alps
- Cervino (Matterhorn)
- Mountain roads
See samples on the Other Italy page
Torino and Piemonte (Piedmont)
- Torino (Turin)
- Mole Antonelliana
Covered sidewalks- Parco San Valentino
- Piazzas: Carlo Felice, San Carlo, Castello, etc.
- Palazzos: Reale (photo at right), Madama
- Po River
- City life: streets, stores, outdoor vendors, flower markets and vendors, restaurants, bars, courtyards, streetlamps, signs, Christmas displays and decorations (day and night)
- Cityscapes
- Piemonte
- Saluzzo: streets, alleys, homes, archways, orchards
- Abbey of Staffarda (inside and outside)
- Abbey of Vezzolano
- Castelnuovo don Bosco
- Castello Masino
- Lago di Orta
- Countryside (vineyards, views of Alps, etc.)
See samples on the Torino & Piemonte page
Venice and the Veneto
Venice
- Canals and bridges (including Grand Canal at night)
- Gondolas and gondoliers
- Work boats: vaporetti, ferries, delivery boats, taxis, construction equipment, Carabinieri, etc.
- Churches: San Marco (St. Mark's), Santa Maria della Salute (photo at right), Santi Giovanni e Paolo (also inside), Santi Apostoli, San Giorgio, Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Santo Stefano (inside), etc.
- Palaces: Palazzo del Doge, Ca' d'Oro, façades along the Grand Canal, etc.
- Shop displays: masks, glassware (also in Murano), florists, dolls, newsstands, linens, etc.
- Homes: windows, balconies, boat docks, decorations, etc. (including the extra-colorful houses of Burano)
- Ghetto (Jewish quarter)
- People: working (delivering goods, making glass, buying and selling at markets, building construction/maintenance), relaxing, rowing, walking, dining, feeding pigeons
- City life: streets, piazzas, stores, outdoor vendors, fruit/vegetable markets and vendors, eating outdoors, restaurants, bars, courtyards, streetlamps, construction, signs, laundry hanging, graffiti, Christmas displays and decorations (day and night)
- Verona
- Castelvecchio
- Ponte Scaligeri
- Adige River
See samples on the Venice & Veneto page
Liguria
Cinque Terre:
- Vernazza: harbor, town (photo at right), people, coastline
- Monterosso al Mare
- Noli Ligure: city wall, towers, beach, fishermen
Emilia-Romagna
- Ravenna: 6th-Century mosaics, Roman mosaics
- Brisighella: medieval town center, Via degli Asini, clock tower, fort, orchard on hillside
- Bologna:
- Covered sidewalks
- Torre degli Asinelli
- Roofscapes (cityscapes from atop the tower)
- University of Bologna: anatomy dissection room, library
- Seven Churches of the Abbey of Santo Stefano
- Sunday-morning antiques street market
- Ferrara: Cathedral, Castello d'Este, street scenes
- Modena: Cathedral (also inside), street scenes
- Parma: Duomo (also inside), Battistero (also inside)
- Countryside: landscapes, farms, churches (Santa Maria in Castello, Pieve del Thò)
- Piacenza: Piazza Cavalli, street scenes
See samples on the Emilia-Romagna page
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Central Italy
Florence and Tuscany
- Florence
- Duomo (also inside)
- Tower of Giotto
- Churches: Santa Maria Novella (also inside), San Francesco
- Arno River: landscapes, crew rowing, sunset
- Ponte Vecchio
- Palazzo Vecchio (courtyard and outside)
- Cityscapes from Tower of Giotto
- Siena
- Piazza del Campo
- Palazzo Pubblico
- Duomo
- Street scenes
- Cityscapes
- Shop displays: ceramics
Pisa
- Cathedral (also inside)
- Leaning Tower (photo at right)
- Statues, piazzas
- Arno River scenes
- San Gimignano:
- Piazza Cisterna
- Towers
- Street scenes
- Outdoor market
- People working (silversmith, baristas)
- Church of Sant' Agostino (also inside)
- Monteriggione
- Abbey of Sant' Antimo (also inside)
See samples on the Florence & Tuscany page
Umbria
- Perugia
- Piazzas
- City life: streets, pedestrian alleys, outdoor vendors, restaurants, bars, signs, laundry hanging, people going into church for a wedding, students working against AIDS and drugs
- Churches: San Domenico (also at night), Sant'Agostino, Duomo, etc.
- Cityscapes
- Gubbio
- City life: streets, outdoor vendors
- Roman theater
- Churches: Duomo, San Francesco
Palazzi: dei Consoli, Ducale - Shop displays: ceramics, oil
- People: walking, talking
- Assisi: Cathedral of San Francesco (St. Francis), street scenes, people
- Todi: Cityscapes, street scenes, homes, Cathedral, people relaxing
- Orvieto: Duomo (also inside)
- Spoleto: Duomo, castle, San Pietro, Ponte delle Torri (Bridge of the Towers), street scenes
- Bevagna: piazzas, Roman Baths museum, street scenes
- Villages: Montefalco, Castel San Giovanni, etc.
- Countryside, hill towns, farms, vineyards, farmer pruning olive tree (photo at right)
See samples on the Umbria page
Marche
- Camerino: churches, street scenes, graffiti, people walking/talking
Rome and Lazio
- Rome
City life: streets, stores,
outdoor vendors, greengrocery and flower markets and vendors, city
police, eating outdoors, bars (including the bar famous for the
best coffee in Italy, "Sant'Eustachio il Caffè"), courtyards,
sculptures, obelisks, graffiti, construction (photo at right),
Christmas displays and decorations (day and night) - Folk dancers and musicians
- Roman antiquities: Colosseum (including "gladiators" outside), Palatino, Pantheon (also inside), Forums, Teatro di Marcello, Bocca della Verità, Temple of Vesta, Temple of Virile Fortune, arches, columns
- Piazzas: Navona, Campo dei Fiori, di Spagna, Venezia, Cavour, del Popolo (some also at Christmas, some also at night)
- Churches and Basilicas: San Giorgio in Velabro, Santa Maria in Trastevere (also inside), Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Santa Francesca Romana (also inside), San Paolo Fuori le Mura (also inside), Sant' Eustachio, Santa Maria sopra Minerva (also inside), Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza (also inside), Sant'Andrea della Valle (also inside), San Luigi dei Francesi (also inside), Sant' Agnese in Agone (also inside), San Pietro in Vincoli, Santa Maria di Loreto, Santissimo Nome di Santa Maria, Sant' Anselmo, Chiesa Valdese (also inside), etc.
- Palazzos: La Sapienza, etc.
- Fountains: Trevi, Tartarughe, Sant'Eustachio, various at Piazza Navona, etc.
- Monuments: Vittorio Emanuele II, etc.
- Shop displays: greengrocers, antiques, wicker, florists, etc.
- Verano Cemetery (scenics, people placing flowers)
- Villa Giulia, Villa Borghese
- People: working, shopping, dining, talking, walking, hanging out laundry
- Cityscapes (including from the top of St. Peter's)
- Tiber River (also at sunset)
- Trastevere
Vatican
- St. Peter's Square (also at Christmas): fountains, sculptures, colonnades, façade of San Pietro, etc.
- San Pietro: inside, crypt, cupola (also inside) and roof area (photo at right)
- Castel Sant'Angelo (also at night), starlings swooping over castle and over angels on Ponte Sant' Angelo
- Crowd standing in the rain for Pope John Paul II's Easter benediction
- Lazio
- Viterbo: medieval town center, churches, Christmas decorations
- Cerveteri: medieval town center, Etruscan tombs (necropoli)
- Grottaferrata: Byzantine Abbey of Santa Maria in Grottaferrata (outside and inside)
- Terracina: the Cathedral and the Roman Tempio di Giove Anxur
- Ostia Antica
- Villa Adriana (near Tivoli)
See samples on the Rome & Lazio page
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Southern Italy
Campania
- Pompeii: street scenes, cityscapes, homes, shops, thermal baths, gathering places, temples, sculptures, mosaics, etc.
Amalfi Coast
- Amalfi: Duomo (photo at right), Piazza Duomo, shop displays (limoncello, ceramics, puppets), outdoor cafes
- Positano: beach, boats on beach, people playing in surf, high waves breaking over quay, shop displays (ceramics, clothing, artwork, secondhand goods, produce), cityscapes, Duomo, artist painting a seascape
- Coastline: towers, shore
- Capri
- Capri: landscapes, cityscapes, street scenes, churches, homes, medieval quarter, Piazza Umberto, shop displays (limoncello, ceramics), outdoor cafes, non-Roman-Catholic cemetery
- Anacapri: shop displays (shoes, ceramics, produce), Church of San Michele with painted ceramic floor
- Marina Grande (port): cityscape, boats
- Sorrento
- Harbor at night and at sunrise, with boats at anchor
- City at sunrise
- Vesuvius across the bay
See samples on the Campania page
Puglia
- Alberobello: trulli (conical roofs)
- Martina Franca: medieval quarter, trulli
- Lecce: Roman amphitheater
See samples on the Other Italy page
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Scotland
General
- Ferries (primarily Caledonian MacBrayne)
- Trains
- Lighthouses
- Drystone walls
- Phone boxes
- Highland cattle
- Black-faced sheep
- Gorse in bloom
Islay
Finlaggan (seat of Clan Donald and the Lords of the Isles from ~1350
to 1494) - Distilleries: Bowmore and others
- Towns and villages: Port Charlotte, Bowmore, Port Askaig, and others
- Churches: Kilnave, Kilchoman, Kildalton, Bowmore (also inside)
- Celtic crosses: Kilnave (photo at right), Kilchoman, Kildalton
- Cemeteries: Nereabolls, Bowmore, Kilnave, Kildalton, Kilchoman
- Lochs: Indaal, Gruinart, Finlaggan
- Standing stones
- American Monument
- Landscapes
See samples on the Islay and Jura page
Jura
- Paps of Jura: as seen from Jura, from Islay (also snow covered), from Colonsay
Standing stone: Camas an Staca - Craighouse: Jura Distillery, Jura Hotel
- Cemeteries: Keills, Tarbert
- Small Isles Bay (photo at right)
- Loch Tarbert
- Streams
- Knockrome village
- Farmer and native Gaelic speaker
See samples on the Islay and Jura page
Colonsay and Oronsay
- Oronsay Priory and Celtic cross
- Strand connecting two islands at low tide
- Kiloran Bay
- Landscapes
Mull, Iona, and Staffa
- Mull:
- Tobermory and Tobermory Bay
- Duart Castle
- Lochbuie stone circle
- Calgary Bay
Iona:
- Abbey (inside and out) (photo at right)
- Celtic crosses: St. Martin's, St. John's
- Nunnery
- Staffa
- Basalt pillars
- Fingal's Cave
- Landscapes
Lewis
- Callanish Stone Circle
See samples on the Other Scotland page
Skye and area
- Clan Donald Centre, Armadale Castle and gardens
- Fairy Bridge
- Eilean Donan Castle (photo at right)
- Landscapes
Oban
- Dunollie Castle
- McCaig's Tower
- Harbor and cityscape
Inverness and area
- Inverness city
- Urquhart Castle
- Culloden Battlefield
- Clava Cairns (photo at right)
Orkney
- Italian Chapel
Kirkwall – city, cathedral, and Bishop's Palace - Skara Brae
- Ring of Brodgar (photo at right)
- Stones of Stenness
- Broch of Gurness
- Brough of Birsay
- Yesniby cliffs and shore
- Village of Birsay
- Dovecote and stream at Woodwick
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England
London
- Tower of London
Tower Bridge - Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament
- Westminster Abbey (photo at right)
- Westminster Cathedral
- Hampton Court Palace (outside and grounds)
- London Eye (ferris wheel)
- City scenes (Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden, Millennium Bridge, etc.)
Stone circles, standing stones, and other ancient monuments
- Stonehenge
- Avebury
- Long Meg and her Daughters
- Merry Maidens
- Merrivale (Dartmoor)
Castles
- Farnham (Surrey)
- Guildford (Surrey)
- Old Wardour (Wiltshire)
- Restormel (Cornwall)
- Lulworth (Dorset)
- Okehampton (Devon)
- Old Sarum (Wiltshire)
- Leeds (Kent)
- Carisbrooke (Isle of Wight)
- Farleigh-Hungerford (near Bath)
- Pickering (North Yorkshire)
Cathedrals
- Guildford (Surrey)
- Canterbury (Kent)
- Salisbury (Wiltshire)
- Winchester (Hampshire)
- Chesterfield
Southeast: Hampshire, Kent, Surrey
Canterbury:
cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey, street scenes - Winchester: cathedral, street scenes
- Guildford: cathedral, castle, street scenes, riverside scenes
- Battle Abbey
- Small towns: Farnham, Fleet
- Villages: Ibsley
- Bishops Waltham Palace
- Waverley Abbey (photo at right)
- Leeds Castle
- Carisbrooke Castle (Isle of Wight)
- Donnington Castle
- Countryside
See samples on the Southeast England page
Southwest: Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset
- Stonehenge (at morning and at late afternoon, under cloudy and clear skies)
- Old Sarum
- Lulworth Castle
- Farleigh-Hungerford Castle
Old
Wardour Castle - Bath: Roman baths (photo at right), Bath Abbey, town scenes
- Salisbury: cathedral, street scenes
- Towns: Penzance, Truro, St. Ives, Lostwithiel
- Villages: Abbotsbury (incl. St. Catherine's Chapel), Avebury, Widecombe-in-the-Moor
- Dartmoor: standing stones, stone circles, stone rows, Sharp Tor, Bennett's Cross, landscapes
- Restormel Castle
- Merry Maidens stone circle
- Dolmen
- Abandoned tin mine
- Barrows
See samples on the Southwest England page
Midlands: Shropshire, Derbyshire, North Yorkshire
- Shropshire: Iron Bridge
- North Yorkshire: North Yorkshire Moors Railway and nearby scenery
- Derbyshire: Chesterfield: St. Mary's Church with its distorted spire
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Wales
- Chepstow Castle
- Caerphilly Castle
- Raglan Castle
- Cardiff Castle
- Tintern Abbey (photo at right)
See samples on the Wales page
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Other parts of Europe
France
- Metz: Cathedral, town
Germany
- Munich: Viktualienmarkt, Altes Rathaus am Marienplatz, Alter Peter, New City Hall, Cityscapes from Alter Peter, towers of Frauenkirche
- Bad Tölz, Isar River, and area, Bavaria
Switzerland
- Lugano
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North America
Scenes from many parts of the United States, plus Canada
United States
US Mid-Atlantic
Chesapeake Bay area
- William Preston Lane Memorial Bridge (Chesapeake Bay Bridge): bridge structure (photo at right), 1998 Bay Bridge Walk (individuals and groups), vehicles crossing bridge; sailboats in 1998 Whitbread Race
- St. Michaels, Maryland: lighthouse (straight and reflected), boats, Bay scenes, Chesapeake Bay Marine Museum at dawn
- Oxford, Maryland: sailboat moored in Bay at sunset (also with ducks in water)
- Tilghman Island, Maryland: oyster shells, boats
- Easton, Maryland: Old Third Haven Quaker Meeting House
- Washington, DC
- Monuments
- Cherry blossoms
- Capitol
- Smithsonian Institution "castle"
- National Building Museum
- Montgomery County, Maryland:
- Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad
- Wheaton Farmer's Market (grand opening celebration)
- Politicians: County Executive Doug Duncan, the late Maryland Comptroller Louis Goldstein
- Wheaton Sparkles on the Fourth (July 4) celebration: fireworks, bagpipers, balloons, people
- Traffic on the Capital Beltway at midday
- Neon signs at night
- Baltimore, Maryland: lighthouse in Inner Harbor, National Aquarium building
- Western Maryland: landscapes, mostly of Garrett County
- Northern Virginia: the Pope-Leighey House (exterior)
- West Virginia: Shepherdstown scenes at Christmastime, Harpers Ferry
See samples on the Mid-Atlantic page
US Southeast
North Carolina's Outer Banks
- Hatteras: Lighthouse, beach with sandbags (photo at right), strand from atop Lighthouse, Lighthouse Visitor Center
- Ocracoke: Lighthouse, Silver Lake, sunrise over Pamlico Sound
- Rodanthe: Fishing pier
- Ferries (Hatteras-Ocracoke, Ocracoke-Cedar Island)
- Other Carolina beaches
- Ocean Isle Beach (North Carolina): beach, pier, people walking along beach in early morning
- Holden Beach (North Carolina): Homes, canals, sunset
- Myrtle Beach (South Carolina): Grand Strand Park
- Fayetteville, North Carolina: Market House
- Nashville, Tennessee: Skyline at dawn
- Richmond, Virginia: Old train station
- Hot Springs, Virginia: victorian house at night, back roads, landscapes, streams
See samples on the Southeast USA page
US West coast
Seattle, Washington: downtown, Space Needle, Seattle
Center, Pike Street Market - Portland, Oregon: downtown, people playing in fountain (photo at right)
- Northern California
- San Francisco: cable cars, Coit Tower, Chinatown, Embarcadero, etc.
- Yosemite
- Point Reyes: rock detail, sunset
- Lick Observatory (San Jose)
- Southern California
- Santa Monica: Getty Museum grounds (1990)
See samples on the West Coast page
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Canada - Ontario
- Ottawa: City scenes, woodland trails
- Kingston
- Gananoque
Digital Art
A mix of techniques to transform "ordinary" photographs into digital art.
See samples on the Digital Art page
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