Blackthorn Arable Ltd
Agricultural and Countryside Images
42 Chapel Road , Earith ,Cambs , United Kingdom, PE28 3PU
Telephone: 01487 741123 Mobile: 07980 314911
email: m.cox@blackthornarable.co.uk       Internet: www.blackthornarable.co.uk
 
About us

We are a privately owned company situated near Cambridge in Eastern England with an extensive library in excess of 25,000 images constantly updated , the range extends through 12 months of the year, from drilling to harvest

We are specialists in the supply of images depicting agricultural crop production, energy crops, environmental scenes, food crops and the countryside. Our images are taken on film and converted to digital media by film scanning.

Our images are backed up by in depth technical knowledge of the subjects they depict.

For our full postal address and contact details, see Contacts

Our experience
We have vast experience in the supply of images to all sectors of the industry ranging from crop protection companies to press and public relations. We also supply educational establishments such as colleges and those providing technical training in crop production.

Agricultural Press
We often supply images to the agricultural press, we have supplied front cover pictures for national coverage magazines in the UK

Advertising Campaigns
We supply images for brochures, internet use, presentations and advertising campaigns in the press.

Our client base includes large multi-national companies and some very small ones too!

Our range of images

The images on this website are listed by category; what is displayed here is by no means all the stock we have.

If you do not see what you want it is worth contacting us as our complete range is very extensive, we do try to photograph everything related to crop production.

For those times when we do not have what you want, if it is possible we will take the pictures for you to your specification.

You can contact us by phone or email, searching our library is free.

Our Terms

We aim to be competitive.


Our terms are particularly favourable for big print runs or multiple use of images.

You buy the right to use an image, terms can be for a 12 month period of use with any amount of use within that period for a single fee. You can re-licence the image for subsequent years for 60% of the initial cost.

Account setup is simple and you can take delivery of images within hours of contacting us, invoices follow for payment 28 days after delivery.

Cost of images
Full page print- £70
A4 sized (@300dpi) TIFF or JPG file
These would be around 30Mb for a TIFF, 1.5-2 Mb for the Jpg.
We are happy to supply A3 sized files to allow larger print or cropping.

Half page print- £40
A5 sized (@300dpi) TIFF or JPG file
These would be around 15Mb for a TIFF, 0.75-1Mbfor the Jpg.
Files will be provided to print up to half A4 size , this allows cropping etc for smaller images.

Annual bulk discount option
You can have full access to all images in the library for a single annual fee, this option suits those needing a lot of images throughout the year and provides a discount for bulk buying. This also allows valuable staff to get on with their job, knowing someone else will find the images for them and deliver preview images for their approval.

This arrangement works very well for some of our clients, do you think it would benefit you?

Delivery of images
Our images are ready scanned for you and can be provided by email or on CD prepared to the size you need.

We can provide images suitable for printing at 300dpi up to A3 or larger by request.

Images are supplied as TIFF or Jpeg.

With the arrival of high speed internet connections such as ISDN and broadband, delivery of large images is now relatively easy for us.

We can email files up to 30Mb if you wish, they will be with you in under an hour, if this is not suitable but are in a hurry to get on with your project, we can send a full sized Jpeg for proofing with TIFFS on CD for next day delivery.