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Format for submitting photos
The Photo gallery is displayed at 72 dots per inch (dpi) and is displayed as .jpeg (.jpg). This discourages copying. You can send as many photos as your want (until you hear the yell to Stop). If sent by e-mail they should be 10"x10" or smaller and at 72 dpi. If sent on a CD any size will be OK. Send them in batches that are similar, for example: nature, seascapes, animals, birds, children, cars, boats, etc. Examine the existing galleries to see what your gallery will look like.

You can personalize your gallery with a favorite photo of yourself, a little bio, your photography preferences, and you can advertise your work for sale.
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Watermark?
Any picture on the web can be copied by a determined thief, but don't let this discourage you from showing your pictures. After all, there are billions of pictures being displayed on the web. If we are concerned about our pictures being copied, then we can do several things. One is to make the picture unattractive for copiers. This can be done by publishing a small picture as a 72 dpi jpeg and unsuitable for printing or enlargement. Another way is to watermark it so that it is viewable but unsuitable for printing or copying. This will be done if you ask to have it done.

To discourage copying, the photos on this site have the right click and copy features of the viewers browser defeated. (Try to copy a picture or a page and see the message that pops up).

Another a simple non-Java (encryption) method to prevent right click copying of your images involves fooling the user into thinking they are saving your image, but in fact they are only saving a transparent empty gif. The image is actually the background and the transparent gif is covering it.
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Another way to protect your photographs is by embedding a code in the photograph. This is a service provided by Digimarc Corporation at http://www.digimarc.com

(Digimarc offers a selection of free software downloads that allow you to incorporate digital watermarks in digital images for copyright communication, ownership identification and print-to-web linking applications.)
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E-mail addresses
E-mail addresses on the web are scanned by spam robots (spambots). Spambots are programmatic robots that crawl the Internet(in much the same way the search engines do) with the sole purpose of gathering e-mail addresses in order to send you completely irrelevant promotional material. We have several e-mail addresses on our site that are not vulnerable to e-mail address collecting spam bots.

One way to defeat the bots is to obfuscate the e-mail address so that the spambots cannot read them, or even know that they are there.

Another way to defeat them is to use e-mail addresses that redirect our e-mail to us but is not visible to the spambots.

We use these two methods on this site. Instead of listing an e-mail address, we can just list the name of the person and encode the e-mail address so that it will not be readable to the bots. We can send the encoded e-mail to our website and the website will redirect the e-mail to us.

That is the system used in e-mailing the Webmaster.
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Google
We are now indexed by Google, the major search engine. In the future, after we accumulate a larger Member's Gallery, we will go for an increase in rankings. An increase in rankings will make the Galleries more visible and bring more viewers.

More viewers may mean buyers for those interested in selling their work on the web.
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