contact.us@windowonlosttime.co.uk
We are two professional photographers who run a small, specialist photo library to market our images. Our work concentrates on Britain but we have some photographs from abroad, most notably Anasazi and other Native American sites in the Southwest of the USA. We have links with other specialist collections and may be able to point you in the direction of a suitable source if we do not have what you require.
We hope that the photographs in our Gallery give a good indication of the range of subjects we hold. Otherwise a run through our News and Publications section is a good introduction.
We are not yet a digital library: the photographs are mainly 6x4.5cm original colour film (Fuji Velvia 50) transparencies with some 35mm on Kodachrome etc. We also have 10x8 black & white prints from 5x4 and medium format film negatives.
For high quality work we still loan out these original B&W prints and colour transparencies, but we also supply small numbers of low resolution .jpgs by e-mail for reference purposes. For medium quality reproduction we can provide digitally mastered files up to 55MB on a CD, or by e-mail if it is just one or two images.
If a customer requires a large, high quality digital file, and is not prepared to accept responsibility for loss or damage while using our original prints or transparencies, we will have them scanned professionally which will incur an extra fee and take at least a week longer.
We supply work for a wide variety of uses and try to scale our copyright reproduction fees appropriately to each project. Usually, if photographs are requested and at least one used, we will not make additional picture research, scanning or postage charges, but if we are involved in more than half a day’s work and none of our photographs are used we will make a service charge to cover our time and expenses.
We are skilled at picture research but it is only part of our working life and we are not able to be in the office every day, or to have anyone here to respond to picture requests while we are away. We can act quickly when we are here, but if you are in a desperate hurry we are probably not the best people to contact.
Occasionally we have produced hand printed archival quality prints on request for display and exhibition, but we are now investigating the possibilities of creating Limited Edition runs of Giclée prints from our work.
contact.us@windowonlosttime.co.uk
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