Using My Photos
Every photo on this site was taken by me, unless otherwise noted in any given caption. If you want to use any of my photos...
...just send me a request via e-mail (click here). Tell me which image or images you want to use (based on the source page and the caption underneath), and for what purpose. (For example, “I wish to use your comet image, labeled “Hale Bopp at Dawn” in my book (or newspaper article or term paper or company brochure or whatever).
If you tell me the size of the final image that you need, I can probably tailor the final resolution of the image that I send to you to fit your need.
Likewise, if you want to link to my web site from your web site, contact me at the e-mail address given above.
I do not charge money for the use of my pictures. They are too special to me to trade for money. I only ask for a photo credit if you use any of my images. Unless otherwise noted, I am the photographer for every image that appears on this web site. Even the atomic double-flash time lapse sequence of the Orbital Surveillance page is my own creation, scanned from frames of public-domain U.S. government film footage of a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific.
I do ask that I always be cited as the source of the image in your work. You give me this credit by simply including a statement such as “Photo courtesy of Frank Sanders” in your caption, or in a footnote, or somewhere at the edge of the image. I would also appreciate it if you would reproduce my images at the best quality that you can manage; I hate badly reproduced images in general, and I am especially disappointed if my own images are reproduced badly.
After I receive your request, I will send you a high-resolution JPEG version of the image or images via e-mail. The highest resolution that I can provide varies depending upon the photo source, but typically the pixel resolution will be something like 1700 x 1300 pixels, with a compressed file size (via e-mail) between 500-800 kB and an uncompressed file size (such as when you open it in Adobe Photoshop) of about 6 MB.
So far I have not refused any requests to use my photos. I will get back to you as soon as I can after you have sent me a request, but be aware that sometimes I am traveling in situations and places where I cannot check or respond to e-mail immediately, possibly even for a week or two.
Regarding image resolution...my photos appear on these web pages in a fixed-width format of 800 pixels and a variable height of about 640 pixels. This is partly because (1) iWeb, the Apple software package that I used to build this web site, restricts itself to this format for its photo exports, (2) photos at that pixel resolution will download quickly even on dial-up connections, and (3) it encourages people who want to use my photos in other applications that demand higher resolution (such as 1700 x 1300 pixels or even larger) to contact me before they use my images.
Silhouette at Royal Arch
Hale Bopp at Dawn
Hale Bopp close-up detail
Bee grooming herself--image 269
Aurora 04
Rainbow in the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah (Kcm rainbow)
