When I started the Leslie Garland Picture Library Library in 1985 it was the first general picture library in the north east of England. Whereas initially most of the stock was my own work, and much of it was of northern subject matter, since those early days the library has expanded considerably and now has a large range of material supplied by dozens of contributing photographers.
As my background was in civil engineering, inevitably the library has a bias towards things industrial, technological, geological, scientific and of course engineering. However, from this starting point the content of the library stock has moved off into the fields of environment, farming, natural world, geography, pure landscape, historical subjects and travel. It is surprising how the subjects in the world around us interrelate. So yes, we have pictures of the Worlds most slender suspension bridge, but we also have pictures of glaciers and minerals, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, Scandinavian Cathedrals and French Enclosure Churches, ship repair and solar power! Do have a look at the “Subject Listing” page, which I hope gives a better idea of the range of subject matter, and of course the pictures which are but a tiny sample of same.
Technology has moved on a pace in the past few years and so the mode of the library’s operation has also changed and thousands of the library’s images are now available on-line for immediate download and purchase. Although this change is not fully complete yet, work is continuing at a pace with new stock images being added every week.
Go on, give it a try! Just hit the “Search” button to be taken through to a cyberspace full of pictures!
