This month we are showcasing a wonderful black and white photograph by Andrew Gibson entitled 'La Recoleta Angel'. It was taken in the Cementerio de Recoleta (Recoleta Cemetery in English) in Buenos Aires. It's one of the cities main attractions and the cemetery is special because only the richest and most famous Argentines are buried there. It's very expensive and they say it's cheaper to live the high life in Buenos Aires than to be buried in Recoleta. One of its most famous inhabitants is Evita, otherwise known as Eva Perón, second wife to the Argentine President Juan Perón. Andrew's mon

Our specialist flower photographer Jacky Parker has just had her wonderful 'Rain Bells' image awarded 1st prize in the Plant Portrait category of the prestigous Royal Hoticultural Society Photography Competition. It took the panel of judges two days to decide on the 19 winning photographs in the six competition categories but Jacky's beautiful shot deservedly came through on top. The competition is sponsored by the Medici Gallery in London, where it will be on display in the middle of January 2008 for one week and also in the RHS gardens Wisley spring through to autumn next year. You can find

A 16 billion pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper has been posted on the internet, giving art lovers a detailed view of the 15th Century work. The image is 1,600 times more detailed than those taken with a typical 10 million pixel digital camera. Experts will be able to see segments as though just centimetres away and examine otherwise unavailable details. The posting comes amid claims a new system aimed at protecting the piece from Milan's pollution is not working. The original work is displayed in the Italian city's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Art curator Alberto Art

Our Photo of the Month is a new feature where we aim to showcase photographs of outstanding quality and beauty. For October we are presenting an incredible image by Tim Wallace called 'Northern Tide'. This is such a dramatic photograph with wonderfully vivid colours. Tim says "Northern Tide is part of a set of images that I'm working on to produce contemporary photography using an old weathered chair, basically in places that you would not expect to find a chair." "This shot was taken just next to the pier at Saltburn on the North East coast at the very early hours of 4:50am as the sun was ri

We are happy to announce a new image collection to the Fotoviva Art Prints store which is called Automotive Art. If you haven't guessed it yet, here we will be showcasing some exceptional car photography for you budding automotive enthusiasts out there! We'll have a range of classic car prints, modern day desirable cars and of course lots of amazing supercar wall prints to make you men drool! The car collection is mainly made up from Tim Wallace but we also have some of our other photographers who have an interest in sports cars and have contributed some great car pictures. These wall prints

We are happy to announce the arrival of Peter Paterson to the Fotoviva Photography Team. Peter has been taking photographs for over 35 years starting mostly in monochrome which was processed in the darkroom. During this time he gained the Associate Distinction from the Royal Photographic Society and also recently gained the EFIAP award, together with the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Distinction DPAGB. He exhibits photographs nationally and internationally in various Salons around the world and has also had photographs published in Digital Photo Magazine, Photography Monthly, Digita

If you are interested in space and all the unkown that goes with it, you could add Astronomy Picture of the Day to your bookmarks for a daily feast of photography that is literally out of this world. Each day NASA bring a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Today's stunning digital view, entitled 'Sagittarius Triplet', is actually a collaborative composite recorded by 2 cameras and 2 telescopes about 2 thousand miles apart! The deep, wide image field was captured under dark Arizona skies. Both M8

Over the weekend the floods hit across the country and even our quiet little village was cut off from the rest of civilisation! The main road from Pershore to Evesham had a 30ft section just disappear as you can see from these photographs. The road left a 30ft deep hole so I can't imagine they will be fixing this in a hurry! We lost power and water for nearly 24hrs and were stranded for a couple of days, though thankfully our house did not flood - although other residents were not so lucky. A friend of mine spent the night in his car on the M5 motorway, whilst another had 3ft of water i

Just came across this image from the National Geographic website and had to make a post about it. It's certainly an usual image and fair play to the photographer - I don't fancy being in his shoes, even if there is a glass screen between the two of them! From the article: Vallejo, California, May 30, 2007—Cats swimming may seem about as likely as pigs flying, but Odin the tiger is proving the exception to the rule at a U.S. theme park. Raised by humans at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom outside San Francisco, the white Bengal tiger has been diving for dinner—happily, according to his

Well I'm happy as Larry today (who is he anyway?) as one of my own images was made Photo of the Day over at Earthshots. The Rising Swan picture has proved to be a popular image with Fotoviva customers and I'd like to say a big thanks to those nice people at Earthshots for the lovely photo award! The wildlife image has won several awards and been featured on many websites, although this is the only place where you can purchase it as a print.