Using images, sounds, and movies from CaliforniaHerps.com

All of the images and sounds and movies used on this site are protected by copyright. Please respect the copyright laws.

This site is provided for education and entertainment, but it is not run by a non-profit organization and I am always happy to make a few dollars from my photos to help defray some of the costs of maintaining this site.


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.)

In the interest of advancing public awareness and appreciation of reptiles and amphibians, images of mine used on this web site are available to be used for free for non-commercial use. This use is limited to images that you can download directly from the web site without my help. (If your company is getting paid by an organization to help them with some type of environmental education - that does not constitute non-commercial educational use. Your client is paying for the image when they pay you.)

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 my bandwidth for your site which is not cool. If I find anyone doing this, I will replace my image with one of something really disgusting. That image will then show up on your site for all of your viewers to see.

As a rule, I do not send out high-resolution images without some compensation. I'm not greedy - I have simply become overwhelmed with people asking me to send them higher-resolution pictures for their projects. I have donated high-resolution images to many environmental organizations, wildlife organizations, state and federal wildlife management organizations, and more, and I will continue to do so, but I just don't have the time to help everybody.


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


Please contact me to discuss using my images for commercial purposes. For a low price I can provide you with a digital image of higher quality than is available for download from the web site. Photographs from this web site have been used in displays in schools, airports, museums, zoos and aquariums, in field guides, textbooks, children's books, newspapers, magazines, official reports, brochures, and scientific journals, and on DVDs, other websites, and outdoor signs.

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.




The snake shown on this sign was taken from a photograph posted on this web site. Whoever made this sign did not get permission from the photographer, Brian Hubbs, and is in violation of the use policy explained above. You must get permission to use the work of any photographer other than Gary Nafis even if the use is non-commercial, and even if your intentions are good. If you do not, you are stealing the image.


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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To help prevent the malicious collection of email addresses from this list, 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. I realize this is a pain, but don't blame me, blame those annoying spammers...