Using images, sounds, and movies from CaliforniaHerps.com

All of the images and sounds and videos used on this site are protected by copyright. Please respect copyright laws. (This includes you China and India!)

Using images © Gary Nafis, or G. Nafis
(This includes any image with no name credited directly below the picture where the name is printed on the picture itself.)


Free Use

In the interest of advancing public awareness and appreciation of reptiles and amphibians and their preservation, images of mine used on this web site are available to be used for free for non-commercial / educational use. (If your company is getting paid by someone to help them with any kind of environmental education, that is commercial use.) This free use is limited to images that you can download directly from the web site without my help. (Please - this includes no faxing or mailing paperwork, or anything I can't do quickly and easily online)

Please do not Hotlink any images on this site (ie. post a direct link to one of this site's photos on your site.) Download an image file and host it on your own server, then link to that image file, otherwise you are using the bandwidth I pay for for your site.

As a rule, I do not send out high-resolution images without some compensation, though I have broken that rule and donated some to many environmental organizations, wildlife organizations, state and federal wildlife management organizations, and more, and I will continue to do so.)

Please credit any usage appropriately, citing Gary Nafis and CaliforniaHerps.com. I always appreciate knowing how the images are used, so please email me with the details and send me the URL if you are using them online so I can check out your site.


Buying use of Images for Commercial Purposes

Please contact me to discuss using my images for commercial purposes. For a low price I can provide you with a digital image of much higher quality than you can download from the web site. My photographs from this web site have been used on other web sites, in textbooks, field guides, scientific journals, magazines, newspapers, children's books, government reports, company brochures, training manuals, outdoor signs, airport, museum, and aquarium displays, DVDs and more.

Using Images Credited to Other Photographers

Many photographers and organizations have generously contributed their images to this web site for free. Please be aware that they maintain all rights for the use of their images and that they all have their own guidelines for allowing the use of their images. Permission to use their photographs is at their discretion, and you must contact them yourself to get their permission. Below is a list of these photographers. To send email, click on a name link.

If you do not find the email address here, or if you write to an address listed here and you do not get a response from the photographer, please do not use the image. If you try the address listed here and get no response then I can't help you. They probably won't respond to me either. If you find that the address listed here is invalid because your mail bounced back, contact me and I will try to get the correct address, though usually that's the only address I have.
          

Using Sounds and Video

Unless otherwise noted, all sounds and video on this web site are © Gary Nafis and may not be copied or used without permission. Please contact me if you want to use a sound or video for any purpose.

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I regret the inconvenience, but as an attempt to prevent the malicious collection of email addresses from this list by email harvesting spammers, since June 2008 I have added a # symbol before each email address.
You will need to remove this # symbol when you send email to a particular email address.