I am very proud to find out that 7 of my photographs have been selected for the Lonely Planet Images 'Best of 2010 Pictures' collection.
As there are only 250 images in the collection, and 400+ photographers all hoping for a place amongst those images, to have 7 of my photographs selected to form part of the 250 is a real honour.
Click the images above to see them on this website.
Click these numbers to go to the LPI Gallery pages: 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5
Click the images below to see them on the LPI website.

			LPI Best of 2010 Collection

About This Site:

GnomePlanet.Com acts as a showcase for the Stock Travel Photography of Tim Makins, or 'Travelling Tim' as he is known to friends, acquaintances and fellow world travellers.

Tim has been travelling for many years, and has visited all 7 of the 7 continents, and over 110 countries to date. He has been taking stock travel photographs for more than 30 years: originally on slide, but now on digital Nikon cameras. He is represented by Lonely Planet Images, one of the world's top Travel Photography stock image libraries, but also keeps this website to showcase and market his favourite digital images, and to provide his popular Free Photography Tutorials, Photographer Tips, Articles and other Photographer Resources for all who are interested in photographing the World.

This site contains a range of Rights Managed (RM) and Royalty Free (RF) photographs. The licensing of the RM images is handled by Lonely Planet Images. The RF images are all available for immediate payment and download from this site. If you wish to license the image as a full sized TIFF file, need the original file interpolating to a larger size, or if you would like to discuss the possibility of additonal editing to the image before licensing, please contact me. I am also happy to talk if you wish to discuss projects or assignments that you would like to have photographed.

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Latest Website Content:

Quite a few new items added recently. Check out the gallery of images from the Thaipusam Festival in Kuala Lumpur. Find out the Best way to chose a Prime Lens based on your personal photographic style. The Photo of the Month section has many new pages. There are also some new Tips, including how to photograph from a hot-air ballon, a camel, and an elephant. New photos have been added from the USA, Canada, Angola, Congo, DR Congo, and Gabon. There are even pages of Soviet Nuclear Weapon photographs, and an intriguing article on Moses's Ark of the Covenant.

Still To Go Online:

Tim has an extensive collection of photographs taken during his recent 6 month Overland expedition around South America, and his 10 month Overland expedition around Africa. You can see maps of the routes covered below. These images will be added to the database as soon as possible. There are also many exciting tallship photos to come from his time spent sailing a traditional square rigger, the 3-masted barque, 'Picton Castle'. You can see a few previews of these images on the Picton Castle Preview page.