It`s time again for a quick update of some images I found in use on websites or in magazins, newspapers or posters from my istockphoto portfolio. Thanks  to everyone sending my scans, screenshots, photos or pages out of magazines.

Tranquility. Lonely Pier towards Taha’a Island:

With over 62.000 (!) free downloads from istockphoto, my ‘Free Picture of the Week’ (FPOTW) is the most downloaded image in my istockportfolio portfolio. Thanks to Nikada for letting me know. I`m sure that I will find more usages of this image in the future as more than 62.000 downloads is a really, really big download number. The ‘mirrored’ usage as a background for an article about “Self-Invested Personal Pensions” was the first I saw.

Wind Turbine in Twilight Landscape:

The Wind Turbine photo from south germany was found as a key visual in the technoical section of the DTM CAS website, a Tax Planning & Tax Structuring Service Company in Budapest, Hungary.

Happy Summer Holidays:

TÜV Rheinland in Germany used a holiday snapshot of my son Finn (while he was 3 years young) swimming with swimming goggles in the turquoise lagoon of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia. Here you find the website.

Partying Guy:

That’s a really funny one! Club Fellini in Barcelona put Ivar on the Erasmus Party Poster. This ultra-wide 14mm party shot was actually taken on a boat trip around the mediterranean Island of Malta during the Ref5esh 2008. Anyway the beer is 100% real :-), and thanks for the invention of Autofocus – without that –this shot– wouldn`t be possible *g*.

Blank Road Sign Death Valley:

The photo on the above right was taken in the Death Valley, California, USA. Originally there was a ‘Road Subject to Flash Flood Warning’ on the sign which I retouched – removed before uploading to iStockphoto to give designers more flexibilty to include their own message on the road sign. ‘West Campus’ and the ‘Arrow forward’ was put on the photo later on. A nice proof that my thoughts about removing the original letters and signs from the road sign worked out for the designer.

Antarctica Polar Landscape:

The original landscape shot on the right of Antarctica Glacier Mountains was used as a background for the ‘Celebration of Light’ event in the Colony Theater Miami, USA. The event was organised from DancenowMiami.

Parallel Perspectives – iStockphoto Charity Book:

iStockphoto produced at blurb.com an awesome photobook. Here’s the capion: “We’ve made it our business to document the world that surrounds us, to send in dispatches from every outpost. These are our bread and butter, but they also represent 65,000 different testimonials of the world as we see it. Those testimonials, taken together, make a kind of visual atlas of the world, the kind that isn’t made by tourists and travelers, but by real people sharing personal moments, private epiphanies, and the revelatory happenings that make up a day in all of our lives.” -iStock CEO and Founder Bruce Livingstone, from the introduction. All proceeds of this book are donated to charity.

My photo of Antarctic King Penguins in the Rain at the beach of South Georgia made it into this book. It made me really proud to be among those photographers and images. The book is really woth every cent and I hope this might be an annual book! You can preview it here.

If you like the ‘Lost & Found Category’ you can find earlier ‘Episodes’ in my blog here.