What's new
Introducing SCOTLAND: The Big Picture
We are delighted to represent the multi-photographer project making the case for a wilder Scotland through great images and inspiring story-telling. Explore the new dedicated gallery section or view the SCOTLAND: The Big Picture showreel.
The FOCAL 2017 Awards
NPL was delighted to sponsor the award for Best Use of Footage about the Natural World at the FOCAL International 2017 Awards. Tim Harris presented the award to Anuschka Schofield of the BBC Natural History Unit, producer and director of Zoo Quest in Colour. Congratulations to the BBC NHU on this award!
(c) Tim Anderson, FOCAL International Ltd
Discover our new RF collection
We have a new premium Royalty Free collection with more than 2000 images.
Come and meet the NPL team at Fotofringe London on 27th April to find out more!
Jack Dykinga wins NANPA Lifetime Achievement Award
Jack Dykinga recently received the North American Nature Photography Association’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. To celebrate Jack’s award, we’ve updated his photographer portfolio with some great new images, including some of the plates from his new book A Photographer’s Life.
Eyecatchers!
Nature Picture Library has added a lot of fresh content in recent months, and some of our top picks are featured in our latest PDF, Eyecatchers. Filled with fantastic new images from the natural world, each one is accompanied by the photographers’ stories from behind the lens. You can also see the image gallery here.
Fruit fly flight secrets revealed
A new Caltech study reveals insights into the aerial acrobatics of fruit flies. To view Floris van Breugel’s images click here or contact us for more information.
Featured Story
SOS Seabirds
The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds is a world leader in seabird rehabilitation. Every year it treats around 1,500 oiled, ill, injured or abandoned African penguins as well as other threatened seabirds - an operation that depends upon a wealth of willing hands and hearts. View our gallery or story PDF, complete with full text.
Latest Highlights
Best of June 2017!
We hope you enjoy our June highlights gallery - we’ve added some strong urban wildlife images including peregrines in Chicago, leopards in Mumbai and otters in Singapore, plus meerkats, shoebill storks, cute pigs and misbehaving monkeys, not to mention Lake Baikal underwater, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the idyllic Seychelles and the lost cities of Iraq.
Supporting Conservation
By licensing images, you can help!
We support conservation by making a quarterly donation from our sales revenue to a charity or specific project which is making a difference. This quarter we are supporting Reptile and Amphibian Group for Somerset. We also offer discounted reproduction fees to conservation organisations. Visit our conservation page to find out more.
Photographer of the month
Alex Hyde
Alex has established himself as an expert in macro photography. By understanding the behaviour of his subjects, he is able to capture intimate portraits of spiders, insects and other invertebrates in their natural habitats. Explore our new expanded and updated gallery.
Book of the month
Birds in Pictures
Birds in Pictures represents Markus Varesvuo's finest ever collection of bird images, the result of 40 years of patient observation and creative photography. The book will be published by New Holland in June 2016. Browse our gallery to see some of our favourite images from the book.
