Mountain Gorillas in the wild - Rwanda

Ruth Hofshi, one of our contributing photographers has returned from a field trip to Uganda and Rwanda. with emphasis on Mountain Gorillas on the border of these two countries


The local government have identified the importance of these animals and have placed arm guards to protect them


Juvenile Mountain Gorilla


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Polynesian Couple

Polynesian couple in their dugout canoe



Local woman French Polynesia, Marquesas Islands, Nuku Hiva


Traditional Fijian dancers

Doron Magali

New to PhotoStock-Israel, Doron Magali, a young 18 year old photography student with impressive and powerful conceptual work. Being of a younger generation she has a different view of our world than mot seasoned photographers.
Most of her work has been accepted exclusively into Getty images

soap bubbles


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Teen Ballet dancer

Sewage and waste treatment

We all know our daily routine. We go to the toilet and we through out the garbage. These artifacts very quickly disappear from our eyes and our mind. But what does happen to the junk and body extracts of millions of people?



In some countries they are taken to collection and treatment centres purified and reused this action is called waste management

Solid or household waste treatment is usually dumped in landfills

One usage of household waste is the manufacture of compost as a fertilizer

Water treatment and purification before supplying to the household pipes is also a major concern

And after supplying the water somebody has to remove the waste and purify it so there are sewerage treatment plants


Another option for water treatment is the use of plants and microorganisms in constructed wetlands


To a cleaner and healthier world
Ilan Rosen on behalf of
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Stock Photographs of The Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is a salt lake Its surface and shores are 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7% salinity. It is 8.6 times as salty as the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres (42 mi) long and 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.

In recent decades, the Dead Sea has been rapidly shrinking because of diversion of incoming water from the Jordan River to the north. The southern end is fed by a canal maintained by the Dead Sea Works, a company that converts the sea's raw materials. From a depression of 395 m (1,296 ft) below sea level in 1970 it fell 22 m (72 ft) to 418 m (1,371 ft) below sea level in 2006, reaching a drop rate of 1 m (3 ft) per year. Although the Dead Sea may never entirely disappear, because evaporation slows down as surface area decreases and salinity increases, it is feared that the Sea's characteristics may substantially change.

The Dead Sea level drop has been followed by a groundwater level drop, causing brines that used to occupy underground layers near the shoreline to be flushed out by freshwater. This is believed to be the cause of the recent appearance of large sinkholes along the western shore — incoming freshwater dissolves salt layers, rapidly creating subsurface cavities that subsequently collapse to form these sinkholes.

Dead-Sea Stock Photography - Images by photostock-israel .

Ilan Rosen
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Eilat, Israel stock photography

Winter is here so I think it is a good time to talk about Eilat with a selection of our Eilat stock photographs from our archives at www.PhotoStock-Israel.com

Eilat is Israel's southernmost city, a busy port as well as a popular resort, located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Eilat. The city is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arava. The city is adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia to the south-east, across the gulf.

Eilat's arid desert climate is moderated by proximity to a warm sea. Temperatures often exceed 40 °C (104 °F) in summer, and 18 °C (64 °F) in winter, while water temperatures range between 20 and 26 °C (68 and 79 °F). The city's beaches, nightlife and desert landscapes make it a popular destination for domestic and international tourism.

Eilat is well known for it's underwater marine life


Timna - Solomon's mines are close




Eilat stock photographs - Images by photostock-israel .

Enjoy your winter vacation
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