Copyright Notice

Advice on using images taken by Maureen "MO" Gilmer

All text and pictures on this site are copyright 2006 Maureen Gilmer unless explicitly stated otherwise. Note: usage is free in some cases, but please read and observe the requirements listed below.

Usage rights summary:
Print (personal use): Free
Web (personal use): Free with hyperlinked credit and inscription on larger images; see useful recommendations below
Web (commercial and non-profit): Requires registration, usually allowed for free with hyperlinked credit and inscription on larger images; see recommendations
Print (commercial): May be purchased, please inquire
Print (non-profit): May be free for some organizations, please inquire

Printing photos for personal non-commercial use
If you want to include a photo in your school report or presentation, use as a screensaver or wallpaper on your personal desktop, put it on your fridge or cover a crack on your office wall, feel free to do so (you have my permission). Use the largest JPEG for the best resolution.

For electronic distribution in any format, please make sure it includes a tiny photo credit line containing "Maureen 'MO' Gilmer www.moplants.com" on all slides where the photos are used. The credit line does not necessarily have to be discernible when you project the slides (yes you can make it unobtrusive), but should be present in the electronic file on the slide (s) where you use the photos.

Personal web use of photos
If you have a personal home page or non-commercial Web service, please feel free to use my photographs with a link to my site.

How to include a link to my site
You must provide a Web site link, this is your credit to me. This allows people to know who took the photo and to find this copyright notice.

The easiest way to use a photo is to copy a thumbnail image from MoPlants.com to your server, insert this thumbnail now hosted on your server into your page,
make the photo on your page clickable, link it to MoPlants.com’s HTML page with its larger version, title, description and other information.

This method will spare you effort, disk space and bandwidth, the image has a decent presentation (i.e. can be viewed in multiple sizes and has a description) and you automatically provide a credit to me. You may also host an HTML page with a large image on your server and link to MoPlants.com from that page.

If you want to present these images in any other way, then an explicit hyperlinked credit is required on every page where the image(s) are used. Examples of the credit line:

Photographs courtesy <a href="http://www.moplants.com/">Maureen MO Gilmer, MoPlants.com</a>
Photo by <a href="http://www.moplants.com/">Maureen "MO" Gilmer, MoPlants.com</a>
Photos from <a href="http://www.moplants.com/">MoPlants.com</a> Gallery

Web usage of photos by commercial and non-commercial organizations
If you would like to use the photos on the Web pages of your organization or company, please do the following:
Register the URL: (send email to )
Add the hyperlinked credit
Normally you do not need to pay for usage, though we reserve the right to deny usage on sites that we don't want to support and deny free usage if the images are to be used heavily (example: an ad page).

Use of photos in print by commercial and non-commercial organizations
Please submit a proposal to: ( ). Please describe the desired use of image and suggest the price you propose to pay for it.
Though socially-oriented non-profit organizations (clubs, charities, etc.) will often be allowed free use of our photos in their free publications, we would appreciate notification on all usage.