Find answers to your questions about this website and about our photos, writing and the way we work.
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About this website
- Where can I find a complete list of what you have in stock?
- The link Photos by Region in the navigation bar on top brings you to the right spot. It is the only list that shows our complete archive. The other pages (features and photos alike) show only material that has been uploaded. Since serious uploading only started recently and since it has to be done next to the normal work, these other lists will be incomplete for some time to go. But they are growing rapidly, so please keep coming back.
Why do the links in PHOTOS touristical subjects, PHOTOS general subjects and PHOTOS gardens & flowers sometimes show only a few photos?
These stocklists show only material that has been uploaded. That is less then we have in our archives. For the complete list go to Photos by Region. However, keep coming back to the other lists, because they are very practical and will be more complete every month.
The navigation bar on top shows features and four times photos. Can you explain the difference between them all?
First there is an essential difference between the features and the photos. Features are combinations of photography and text. Click the link and you arrive at what you could consider as proposals to magazine editors. The links there lead you to excerpts from articles plus some photos. Text is very important there. Photos are more interesting to picture editors. They don't make difference between editorial and advertising and are aimed at magazines, publishers of books, calendars and cards and the advertising industry.
Since we often work in the field of tourism and travel and since most of our clients are from that field, we have split these subjects from the Photos General Subjects and gave them their own stocklist: Photos Touristical Subjects. We did the same with garden and flower subjects. The links in those three lists bring you directly to photos with the appropriate subjects. Links in Photos by Region bring you to series of photos made in a region, city or country.
In fact the same photos are accessible in two different ways: listed by region in the Photos by Region and listed by subject in the other three stocklists. The only complete list is Photos by Region, however, since it mentions all images and not only the uploaded ones.
Who designed and built this website?
Starting from scratch and without any knowledge, Paul Smit hit a steep learning curve. But it's creative, just like photography and writing, so it's fun. And when it's fun, you learn. Moreover, no pre-designed online photo provider or stock agency offered all the possibilities he wanted to offer, like the different lay-outs for viewing the pictures, the different ways to search or the combination of text and photography.
About photos
Do you deliver digital image files or physical slides?
- This website offers a digital way to view our photos, but all originals are slides. We still shoot Velvia film. However we have begun digitizing those slides not only in low-res for the website but also in hi-res. Therefore more often then not we will deliver digital image files. The colour space of these TIFFs is Adobe RGB, they have not been sharpened and are brought back from 16 to 8 bit in the last step, which brings their size down to just below 60 MB.
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- How do I download a comp?
Please send us a mail, and we lift the protection from the images.
How do I order images?
If it's a complete feature you want, just let us know the title. If you need individual images, please mail the full code. Every photo caption begins with information between []; that's the code. Mostly the code consists of (a part of) the country name, some regional indication and a number, like [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 07466].
About texts
This site only offers summaries plus excerpts of features. I like to read the complete text. What should I do?
Please contact us. Since most magazines don't like the public having access to articles they are yet going to publish, we don't have our articles out in the wild. What we need to know is who you are (name, function, publication, e-mail, and phone number) and the title of the feature you like to read. That way only professionals have access to the articles and I'm keeping track of who is reading what. Of course reading an article is not binding you to publish it.
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Mick Palarczyk | features, photos and text