Copyright and Legal
Except where noted the photographic images contained on
these pages are the copyright of the photographers
Roy & Marie Battell.
You
are
permitted to make copies for personal use, and you can
post copies on your own web site so long
as you don't
claim
ownership, and provide a link to the Moorhen home
page (see later).
Do not embed links to images from
our web site into your own.
Our bandwidth is limited and can not cope with the heavy traffic
that can ensue.
If you want to use one of our images simply save a copy to your hard
disc and upload it to your own web
site along with an acknowledgement of the source in the text.
The images viewed here are usually below the quality of
the original digitised images in order to fit the images
into
reasonable disk space, and so as not to try your
patience while waiting for them to load.
Wildlife &
conservation charities, other non-profit organisations, and
individuals who want to use
these images (including printed publications such as guide books,
museum displays, education spreads)
can obtain
higher
resolution versions by contacting us. There is usually no charge.
Artists & animators who use our images as reference are
welcome to them.
Substantial use should include a credit
to us/ and/or the web-site. We do like to see what get produced -
please email us a link to, or actual image(s) of your
creation, at any size you feel comfortable with.
Commercial use (Books, journals etc.) is fine as well - we ask the fee to be donated
to one of the UK charities RSPB or
the Woodland Trust.
If you like our pages, or use items from it, please
provide a link to the 'moorhen' home page.
We suggest
that you do not
point at individual pages as these are likely to change.
If you want to use images copy them
to your own site renaming them or not as you choose.
Wherever you found us, please set the link to:-
If you do this please e-mail us so
that we can
consider including a return link.
Please do not provide links to
our e-mail address.