New aerial photography stock photo site at louishelbig.ca

After hundreds of hours of work sorting, selecting and indexing thousands of aerial photographs taken over many years, I’ve launched a new stock photo site at louishelbig.ca

The process of creating different art projects and collections involves parsing through many thousands of photographs. These have been piling up over the years, languishing on drives in my studio while I’ve been occupied with such projects as Sunken Villages and the Beautiful Destruction book.

The photographs on the new stock site at louishelbig.ca have been indexed and identified according to location and with hundreds of different key words or search terms. Designed primarily for design, image, photography, media and communications professionals working for industry, NGOs, media and in publishing, the images can be viewed (and purchased) by anyone. The site allows anyone to make their own individual lightboxes that may be shared with others.

Design and media professionals requiring downloadable proofs for layouts should register on the site with an email address and contact us with the same email address for permissions to download photographs. Full size, high resolution copies of individual photographs will be provided once payment is sorted. Please quote each photograph’s reference number.

As of April 2015 the main database is of aerial photographs of the Alberta oil or tar sands (Alberta Oil Tar Sands Stock Photographs). A selection of photographs from the Beautiful Destruction book (Beautiful Destruction book) and other aerial art photography have also been uploaded (Select Art Photographs). New photographs will be added as I find time to index my backlog.

3,500 primarily aerial photographs of oil sands or tar sands operations in Northern Alberta, Canada.

This is, I believe, the largest single database of publicly accessible photography of the Alberta oil or tar sands. It includes much of the open pit, in situ (SAGD), upgrading (refinery) and other operations between Peace River, Fort Chipewyan, and Fort Saskatchewan near Edmonton, Alberta.

Search by key word(s) to quickly find photos.

for example: trucks, boreal, Syncrude, Conocco, camp, Fort McKay, bitumen, construction, Exxon, bison, tailings, phenolic, scarecrow, bulldozer, Steepbank, CNRL, reclamation, river delta, Komatsu, etc.

See index words below each photograph for further search terms. See example below.

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