10,000 Upstream, Midstream & Downstream Petroleum Images Now Available at Energyimages.com
January 19, 2007
Energy photography company EnergyImages.Com has taken on a whole new dimension since, a little over a year ago, Houston-based photographer Mieko Mahi, who has focused on the energy industry since 1988, divided her company into EnergyImages.com LCC, an online component for marketing stock photographs, and Mieko Mahi Photography and Video Services. Powerful Images Created from Oil & Gas Photography

Energy photography company EnergyImages.Com has taken on a whole new dimension since, a little over a year ago, Houston-based photographer Mieko Mahi, who has focused on the energy industry since 1988, divided her company into EnergyImages.com LCC, an online component for marketing stock photographs, and Mieko Mahi Photography and Video Services.

Framed Art

Mahi's Web site now contains over 10,000 upstream, midstream and downstream petroleum images. Her framed and matted photographs have been featured on such publications as World Oil, Oil & Gas Journal, Offshore Engineer and Petroleum Africa. In addition, it recently was featured in an Energy section of the Houston Business Journal.

Several images are now on displayed in four petroleum clubs in West Africa. Another 10 were recently purchased by Ernst & Young LLP for display in Houston’s E&Y Energy Center. And a dozen are on display at Continental Casing in Houston. The West African order came from a company in Lagos, Nigeria, which found her site through search engines. The black and white photographs will hang in four petroleum clubs operated by West Africa Catering.

Mahi says, “Leaders in the industry appreciate the artistic scenes of upstream and downstream — offshore rigs, land rigs and refineries to showcase to their customers.”

Mahi credits her international success to sophisticated features of EnergyImages.Com, through which she receives orders on an ongoing basis from Canada, Norway, India and Scotland and other parts of the world.



“I’ve had a Web site for 12 years, but before, you could search and look at the photographs but you couldn’t purchase them online,” she says. “Now it’s a top-of- the-line site with Verisign and Merchant Solutions providing security and handling credit card payments.”

In addition to her own photographs, Mahi is introducing photographs by other photographers. The site now includes work by National Geographic photographer Lowell Georgia, who has an international following, and she plans to add others.

“Lowell Georgia’s works are collectors items. They are unique and difficult to obtain," she says. "All the images on the site are good investment.”

Most recently, Mahi added the private collection of wildlife photographer Stephen M. Kaufman. “Stephen Kaufman’s animal prints looks tailored both in black and white or in color," she says. "All of his images work well in small and super large sizes to decorate any room.” says Mahi.

Oil & Gas Photography

Mahi, who has found success in an unusual niche for a woman photographer, says that about 98 percent of her work is oil and gas photography. She got her start in the business when she was hired in 1988 by a Dallas-based oil and gas company “to put together a video department to create safety videos and as a reports photographer,” she recalls. Two years later, she moved to Houston to accept a photography position with Marathon Oil Co. She ventured out on her own in 1994, with security provided for three years by Marathon, which gave her 90 percent of the company’s report work for three years. “I spent my spare time trying to get other clients,” she says. “Now I have over 400 clients. Each hires me once, or up to six times, a year.”

At home in the roughest conditions, Mahi even began her honeymoon on an offshore rig, completing an assignment that had been repeatedly postponed and ended up taking place right after her wedding. “It was a 3-1/2 hour flight for Diamond Offshore," she recalls. "I was through with the assignment by the time my husband woke up the next morning.”

Part of the fun of the job, she says, is working with the people on the rigs.

"I have liability Insurance and have had offshore survival training. I have been working in the oil patch a long time.”

Mahi’s work is now on display at the Texas Maritime Museum in Rockport, TX and The

Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum in Galveston.

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Energy photography company EnergyImages.Com has taken on a whole new dimension since, a little over a year ago, Houston-based photographer Mieko Mahi, who has focused on the energy industry since 1988, divided her company into EnergyImages.com LCC, an online component for marketing stock photographs, and Mieko Mahi Photography and Video Services.


 
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