Image Search and Delivery

When you wish to review or use our images, we try to deliver them to you in a form that makes the most sense for your workflow. Given that you have an internet connection (you are looking at our web site, right?), digital delivery may make the most sense. Consider the following options:

Conventional film / transparency delivery

For many of the images in our library, we have 35mm and/or 70mm duplicate transparencies on hand. We can prepare a submission of transparencies for you. Please provide us with your courier account information (e.g., FEDEX, DHL) for fast, secure delivery.

Online Search

Over 20,000 of our images are stored in our online database. You can search by keyword, common or scientific (latin) name and view the images in two sizes.

Custom Review Prepared at Your Request

We can prepare a digital review via a private web page of images if you identify the subject(s) you are interested in considering. This takes us just a few minutes and usually includes many more images than appear on our web site. Each image on the digital review page can be clicked to view it 720 pixels high and wide with a watermark.

Digital Delivery

We are working toward having our entire library of images available in digital form. Currently about half of our images have been scanned, and we are rescanning notable images with improved equipment. The digital images we provide are

• 5400 x 3600 pixels (e.g., 18" x 12" at 300dpi) minimum; up to 7200 x 4800 pixels (e.g., 24" x 16" at 300dpi) available upon request.
• 56 megabyte RGB TIFF files (filesize may be smaller due to lossless compression). If you prefer, files can be delivered as high quality (visually lossless) JPEG files, usually 5-10 MB in size.
• Color space: Adobe RGB (1998), gamma 2.2.
• Scanner optical resolution: 4000 ppi
• Nominal output size: 18 inches x 12 inches at 300dpi.
• Color / density corrected by the photographer.
• You will want to unsharp mask and perhaps fine tune colors for your particular printing requirements.

Larger files or CMYK scans are available for images you decide to use in your project.

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Updated: November 21, 2009