About Hugh Nicholson’s Botanical Photography

Hugh’s photographs have appeared in many academic and popular books, journals and magazines in Australia, Japan, Germany, Great Britain and the USA.

Apart from producing the photographs for the six books, Australian Rainforest Plants I-VI, produced with his wife Nan, he has provided identification photos for the four volumes of the Flora of New South Wales, and the CD-ROM The Families of Flowering Plants in Australia, and the recently CSIRO-published Australian Rainforest Seeds.

14,000 images from his collection of photos of all rainforest trees, shrubs and vines from the tropic at Rockhampton to southern Victoria are included in the digital identification key Rainforest Plants of Australia (desktop app and mobile app)

His photos have been used by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the National Herbarium Nederland, Leiden in their Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants.

Hugh has an extensive library of photographs of plants (especially in rainforest), vegetation communities and landscapes from Australia and overseas, ranging from extreme close-ups to aerial photography. His plant photos concentrate on illustrating all the features essential for identification, whilst emphasising the innate beauty of the plant. Supporting herbarium specimens have been collected for many of the photos.

Prices & Requesting Images

Please take a look at the image gallery indexes of either Scientific or Common Names to identify which images you are interested in. Then email us at terania@rainforestpublishing.com.au with details of what you would like to use the image/s for and which size needed and I’ll give you a quote.

Prices vary according to the proposed use, the size of the photograph, and its position in the publication. Non-profit organisations are charged less than commercial, academic or government organisations. Generally, a medium-sized photo in a book, magazine or website will be charged at $100 plus GST.

The images displayed on the following pages are only a small sample of the images available in our library. Please ask if you are looking for other features of a plant.

NOTE: All images are copyright and may not be used without permission.

Feel free to email a request for any common or obscure subject.