Policy for use of High Country Aerie's pictures

In the spirit of the way the web USED to be, any pictures I put on my personal website are free for the taking for personal use. If the pictures are to be used commercially, I'd at least like to KNOW about them (I've discovered some of my pictures on commercial sites before...surprise, surprise!). And I'd appreciate a credit and perhaps a link to this site. E-mail me (link on home page) if you need clarification.

If you want a larger version of a picture, e-mail me and I'll e-mail you the original or at least a larger version. Once you have the larger version, either from the website or via e-mail, just upload it to a commercial printing service and you'll get your print in four to seven days. I've used perfectposters.com with very good luck. They charge $27 for a 24 x 36 inch print, postpaid! I've heard that ofoto.com is also good. If you're in the SnowHome office, you can see an example of a PerfectPosters print on the back wall (unless Mary has moved it to the janitor's closet! <g>).

You can save virtually any picture on the web to your hard drive by right clicking on it and choosing something like "save photo as...".

I don't charge for pictures because photography is my hobby, not my profession, and I learned in a past life (i.e. pre-retirement) that one should never do for a profession what one does for a hobby. Besides, I feel pretty lucky to be living in such a beautiful place. It needs to be shared.

Pictures on the web are generally not measured in inches, but pixels ("pic"ture "el"ements). A 1600 x 1200 pixel image (2.1 megapixels) should enlarge to 8 x 10 very well. The images I blow up to poster size (24 x 36 inches) are about 2000 x 3000 pixels (6 megapixels).