MIRA Homepage Gallery Selections

Several of my stock photography images are included in galleries highlighted on MIRA's homepage. I thought including those images here would be a good excuse for a blog.

I still find it pretty amazing to have my images seen next to true greats like Ron Niebrugge, Galen Rowell, David Fleetham, and so many others. As I was assembling these images below, it also struck me that the oldest of them, the shot of the yellow rose at the bottom, is a shot that is over 10 years old. Hopefully it will remain a timeless image. I don't know that I'm a great photographer, but I'm certainly on a irreversible path on becoming an old one. :)

Seascape

Commercial fishing scene along the waterfront of Portland, Maine.

Conceptual

Dart in a dart board

Americana

Statue of Elvis Presley inside the Tennessee State Welcome Center on Riverside Drive in Memphis

Evening shot of the North Portico of The White House in Washington, D.C.

Spirit

Lit prayer candles inside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, France.

Catholic priest walking into a confessional inside St. Peter's Basilica. Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

Details

Yellow Rose

All images are Copyright Terry Smith. All Rights Reserved.

Go green with Mira

Mira, the stock agency of the Creative Eye Cooperative, has recently added a new Green Issues gallery of environmental photography to their homepage. I'm honored that six of my images are included in their featured collection including this one which I captured earlier this year:

I'm also pleased to report that the following image from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam of school children viewing The Nightwatch by Rembrandt van Rijn was licensed twice to a textbook publisher through Mira. While a picture like this may not be the most edgy form of photography, editorial images are the lifeblood of a lot stock photographers like myself. Besides, I remember when I first looked at this very painting pictured in a textbook when I was a school kid as well!

All images are Copyright Terry Smith, 2008. All Rights Reserved.