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Funny pictures, stock photos, fine art prints, and custom printed merchandise for unique holiday gifts

We have those hard-to-find stock photos, pictures and unique gift ideas.

Funny pictures - Stock photography - Fine art prints - Gifts - Greeting Cards & Printed Merchandise

Funny pictures, stock photos, fine art prints, and custom printed merchandise of all kinds are right here. We have those hard-to-find pictures, stock photos and unique gift ideas. No matter what type of stock image you are looking for, you will find it here among John's photo galleries of digital images, stock shots, and travel/adventure photography.

Whether you are searching for animal pictures, lifestyle, or conceptual stock photography that can be licensed as stock photography, purchased as fine art prints, or printed on unique gifts ranging from baseball caps to coffee mugs, we have it all.

Stock Photos

Stock photography refers to the licensing of existing images for advertising, editorial, corporate and personal use. Advantages of licensing stock images over having the images shot include knowing what you are getting, cost effectiveness, and a huge time savings.

There are a number of different categories of stock photos including: Rights Managed, Rights Ready, Royalty Free, Micro Stock, and Subscription Stock. With Rights Managed stock every use is recorded and licensees have the ability to secure exclusivity if they wish. Prices vary depending on the uses including time, size, territory, industry and so forth. One can expect to pay a higher price for say, exclusive one-year national use on billboards than a one-time use in a local newspaper.

With Rights Ready licensing the client pays for a package of rights and can use the images for ten years. Royalty Free images can be licensed for a fee usually based on the size of the file, and generally has the right to use the image indefinitely and for a wide variety of purposes. Micro Stock, a relative newcomer to the stock industry, refers to collections that are primarily supplied by amateurs and licensed similarly to Royalty Free but at much lower prices. With subscription stock an annual or bi-annual fee earns the licensee the right to download a given number of images over a specified period of time…again with rights based on the Royalty Fee structures.

Stock images can be licensed through individual photographers and/or agencies…the largest of which are Getty Images and Corbis. Getty is owned by the Getty family trust while Corbis is owned by Bill Gates. Big business indeed! Getty Images and Corbis are both large general agencies…but there are numerous smaller more specialized ones. Blend Images is such an agency. Co-founded by 23 highly accomplished stock photographers, Blend focuses on the positive imagery of ethnic lifestyle and business. Another specialty agency is Kimball Stock which has two specialties; exotic cars and animal photography.

John’s stock images are handled by Blend Images, Getty Images, Corbis, and Kimball stock. Each image on this site is labeled with the name of the agency handling the licensing of that image.

Gift Merchandise & Greeting Cards

Hilarious images of cats, dogs and other creatures in human situations and activities will have you and your friends laughing out loud. Whether you are e-mailing a favorite image to someone close, getting a framed print for your home or finding the perfect gift for a friend, you are sure to be spreading a little bit of oft-needed cheer in the world. Shopping for your self or for others is a simple matter of a few mouse clicks. As an added benefit countless animals are helped through the contributions of John’s Animal Antics® to animal charities throughout the world.

Animal Antics images can be purchased on a huge array of products…from fine art prints, to coffee mugs and even calendars which make perfect holiday gifts.

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This work includes collaboration with Stephanie Roeser, an extremely talented emerging Photoshop artist and photographer.

John makes his images available to a variety of charitable causes for animal rescue groups both in the U. S. and abroad. He donates a percentage of his income from the elephant series to the Elephant rescue group in Thailand.

For innovative, impact filled, fun and humorous stock photography, for the unexpected, for images that entertain and bring a smile, for images that present a clear, direct and useful message…just take a look!