Australian photographers rejoice, great photo workshops coming your way.
The first one I’ll mention is Joe McNally’s visit. Not because it’s the first of the photo workshops but because it’s the first I heard about. Details of the McNally tour here. Another great shooter and I hear a great educator is Drew Gardener. Drew will be in the Hunter Valley, NSW, and Yarra Valley, [...]
Photographers copyright creating buzz this week.
There’s been a bit of a buzz around photographers copyright on the internet. Stemming from an out of court settlement in America.
Photographers wishing to license video online, PhotoDeck have just announced hosting and licensing upgrade.
If you shoot stills and video and have been looking for a seamless solution to licensing, and downloading of video content, you should at least have a look at PhotoDeck’s solution.
Face-lift for excitations stock photography archives.
We hope the new changes will make it easier for people to license images and complete transactions on line
Secondhand Canon 70-200mm IS USM Lens for sale, Australian buyers only.
Posted one of our no longer needed lens for sale over on excitations studio blog
Photographers, adding copyright information to images automatically.
Michael Hoffman has a great article over at Tipsquirrel. Adding your copyright information to your image files automatically in Photoshop.
Setting up a new European online stock facility.
Excitations have been over the past couple of days in our spare time!!!!!!!! Setting up a online stock licensing server to more reflect the European market.
Nikon D800 and D4 !!!!!!!!!!
Heaps of speculation that Nikon are about to release new big toys for photographers to play with.
What exactly is a one in 500 year rain event?
I always thought that it meant that the chance of experiencing such an event would come around only one in 500 years. However we own a piece of property which is said to be in a once in 100 year flood zone. a little research shows that it has flooded 3 times in the past [...]
Telstra announces 4G digital network.
Yesterday Telstra announced the roll out of a new 4G wireless network around Australia. Starting with capital cities and major regional centres we can according to Telstra start to see the system up and running around years end. Probably isn’t to important to those of you living and working in a stationary location, connected to [...]
Years rainfall in 24 hours.
Parts of the Sunraysia area surrounding Mildura have had their average yearly rainfall, around 250mm in just 24 hours. Local flooding of homes and businesses have naturally followed such a event. Also put at great risk has been the local grape industry, which supplies wine, table and dried grapes for local and export consumption. As [...]
Urgent water quality warning for rural water users in Sunraysia.
Lower Murray Water are advising user of rural water in the Sunraysia region of Victoria, that channel waters has be contaminated by storm water containing raw sewage. they are warning not to use irrigation water for personal use. Other unconfirmed reports that raw sewage contaminated storm water is also flowing into the Murray River would [...]
Our thoughts with those flood victims of Eastern Australia.
There are two types of flooding. Flash flooding, caused by localized heavy rainfall. Flash flooding occurs quickly, is violent, extremely dangerous and often recedes just as quickly as it comes. Yesterday we saw in the Queensland town of Towoomba just how dramatic a flash flood can be. The other type of flooding is the slow [...]
Mosquito spread viruses in Murray Valley, region, Australia.
After a decade of drought, a unusually wet year has brought with it a infestation of Mosquitoes throughout the Murray Darling region of Australia. Not surprisingly there are a few cases of Mosquito born diseases being reported. If you believe the local regional media they have broken the story of this major health risk. If [...]
excitations stock offline for 3 hours this afternoon AESDT.
Sorry for the inconvenience but you search and purchase of stock photos of Australia will be interrupted today 15th December between the hours of 2pm and 5pm AESDT due to server upgrades in the USA.
Being a photographer is really easy!!!!
Paying your rent while being a photographer is the really hard part! An oldie but oh so true, have a good weekend everyone.
Searching excitations stock archive, a quick trick.
Here’s a trick I use almost daily. When I need to find a picture in our database I usually head to one of two places. www.stockphotosaustralia.com or www.nakedlandscape.com Both have search bars at the very top of the page, which are ideal for single word searches of excitations stock photography archive. Even better once the [...]
Stating the bloody obvious.
Recently read an article about drought in the Murray Darling Basin. Apparently according to an expert the recent drought was a result of insufficient rainfall over the catchment…. No kidding Ollie.
Newsflash… Murray Darling Basin, not currently under drought conditions.
I’ve been a bit surprised at the numbers of searches showing up in our site states over the last couple of weeks, all referring to the current drought in the Murray Darling Basin. Big news for those of us living in the basin, is we are having one of those rare years where rainfall is [...]
excitations stock photography of Australia archive back online
Upgrade over and all is well., we have a few new tools at our disposal no, so will be added them to the site over the coming weeks… Now which new toy will we use first Hmmmmmmmm?
excitations stock archive upgrade 28th October 2010
We had it but we have to do it, excitations stock archive will be off the air between 1pm and 5pm AESDT on 28th October. This is to allow the tech boffins to add some new goodies to our servers. Sorry in advance for any inconvenience.
License stock photos of Australia 24/7 here at excitations stock
We carry basically three types of images on the site, Royalty Free, Rights Managed Full Use, and Rights Managed Editorial Use.
Any readers in the Broken Hill to Flinders Ranges area?
We’ve got a couple of overseas requests for current stock photography of mass wild flower, flowerings if there is such a word. Already have a couple of good leads and will be heading out next week to shoot in those areas, but was interested in shooting some material around Broken Hill and to the Hill’s [...]
Hills ablaze with wildflowers….
A traveler tells me that the outback of Western NSW, Northern South Australia are simple alive with a flurry of wildflowers in full bloom.