Animal, Nature and Travel Stock Photography

Travel Information & animal, nature and travel stock photography by award winning photographer Rolf Hicker

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Travel goes hand in hand with stock photography - both are our life and passion.

Find free travel information and travel stock photography - collected over many years of traveling, and ideas for "not so known" destinations.

Enjoy browsing through our digital stock library of over 15,000 pictures and "soak up" the information we provide with it.

We offer rights managed animal (mostly wildlife), nature and travel stock photography as well as licenses for stock photos. Our images are available in mediums such as high resolution files, quality fine art prints, and mouse pads with nature photos.

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We hope you enjoy hickerphoto.com - where we combine stock photography and stock photos with great and well researched travel information.


		News flash: Our iceberg, northern light and orca pictures have made the News! Rolf Hicker is credited by major newspapers around the world for his iceberg, northern lights and orca whale pictures. More about the News and coverage...

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		Foraging Raccoon Killarney Provincial Park Ontario Canada A cute Raccoon forages and scratches through the dry leaves of the forest floor near George Lake in beautiful Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario in Canada. Foraging Raccoon Killarney Provincial Park Ontario Canada

		Timber Wolf Canis Lupus Parc Omega Montebello Quebec Canada A Timber Wolf, more commonly known as a Gray Wolf, looks directly at the camera in Parc Omega, located in Montebello, Outaouais, in Quebec, Canada. This species of wolf is the largest member of the Canidae family, which includes coyotes, jackals, wolves. Timber Wolf Canis Lupus Parc Omega Montebello Quebec Canada

		Hookers Sea Lion Waipapa Point South Island New Zealand A Hookers Sea Lion, native to New Zealand, relaxes on the beach at Waipapa Point along the Catlins Coastal Heritage Trail, which is part of the Southern Scenic Route in Southland, the South Island of New Zealand. Hookers Sea Lion Waipapa Point South Island New Zealand

		Fin Whales Tadoussac Gulf St Lawrence Quebec Canada A large and graceful Fin Whale can be seen swimming alongside a Whale watching boat from Tadoussac, a town along the Route des Baleines on Highway 138 in Manicouagan in the shores of the famous St Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Fin Whales Tadoussac Gulf St Lawrence Quebec Canada

		Long Finned Pilot Whales Gulf Of St Lawrence Canada Two Long Finned Pilot Whales, proper name Globicephala melas, are seen swimming alongside each other during a whale watching excursion from Pleasant Bay in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Long Finned Pilot Whales Gulf Of St Lawrence Canada

		Aerial View Sperm Whale South Island Coast New Zealand An aerial view of a Sperm Whale as it swims along the surface of the water during a Whale Watching flight with 'Wings over Whales'. This flight took place from Kaikoura, Canterbury on the East Coast of the South Island in New Zealand. Aerial View Sperm Whale South Island Coast New Zealand

		Cute Penguin Picture Catlins Forest South Island NZ A cute Yellow Eyed Penguin walks along the rocks in the Catlins Forest at the Petrified Forest, located in Porpoise Bay and Curio Bay in Otago, on the South Island of New Zealand. These penguins are a native species there. Cute Penguin Picture Catlins Forest South Island NZ

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As travel photographers we spent most of our time traveling (surprise?) through many different countries. Most of our travel photography is photographed digitally with only the industries best photo cameras. At this stage we are photographing with a digital, 21 Mio Pixel camera to make sure that our buyers of stock photography get the highest resolution out there today. Although most of our stock photos are on the topic travel photography we also offer great animal, wildlife and nature pictures.

Many of our stock images are used in high profile calenders as well as for tourism advertisement. We are trying to bring our new travel pictures online as fast as we can, but it is impossible to bring them all online at once as we want to make sure that all images are captured well with travel information. Please ask us when you can't find the pictures you are looking for. Our productions and assignments brought us to several great travel locations and countries.

Our travel stock photography today includes countries like Canada, the USA (including Alaska), Europe including Spain, France, Andorra, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Italy, Africa and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands).