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Favourites

Licence Terms

My favourites, the photos marked with a star, are free to download at the biggest size I have. Here’s the deal, in plain words.

Personal Use: Free

Use them for anything personal: your wallpaper, a print on your wall, a school or uni project, a talk, a personal blog, a club or charity newsletter. No need to ask, nothing to pay. A credit is always appreciated, and so is a tip if you’d like to leave one.

Commercial Use: Pay What You Think Is Fair

If a photo is helping you make money (advertising, a product or its packaging, a business website or social account, a paid publication, work for a client) please leave a tip / pay what you think is fair. How much is up to you: what it’s worth to your project, and what you can afford. A one-person business might tip a little; a big campaign, a lot more.

If you genuinely can’t afford anything right now, use it anyway, and tip later if things go well. If you can afford it, please don’t skip it: that’s what keeps it free for everyone else.

Credit

Where there’s room, credit “Photo: Iain Urquhart”, with a link to iain.co.nz if you can.

Please Don’t

  1. Sell the photos themselves, as they are: as prints, posters, stock, or in a pack of images.
  2. Pass them off as your own work, or enter them in competitions.
  3. Use them to suggest I endorse you, your product or your cause.
  4. Use them for anything illegal, hateful or misleading.

The Fine Print

  • Copyright stays with me. Downloading gives you a licence to use a photo, not ownership of it, and it isn’t exclusive: other people can use the same photo.
  • Crop it, edit it, adapt it: that’s fine. I’d rather not see it enhanced with AI, please.
  • I don’t hold releases for any people, buildings, artwork or brands that appear in a photo. If your use needs one, that’s up to you.
  • The photos come as they are, with no warranty.
  • New Zealand law applies. I may update these terms; the ones in place when you downloaded a photo are the ones that count.

How to Tip

Every favourite’s page has a Leave a tip button beside its download. It goes to a secure Stripe checkout, where you choose the amount (in New Zealand dollars, from $5) and get a receipt. It tells me which photo the tip is for; there’s also a box to say how you’ll use it, if you like. Or leave a tip from here.