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 rules of copyright.

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 site are available for free use for non-commercial educational use. (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.) This use is limited to images that you can download directly from the web site without my help.

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 hundreds of environmental and wildlife organizations 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 I'd appreciate it if you 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.


Using Sounds

Unless otherwise noted, all sounds 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 for any purpose.