Me
I am a self-employed business analyst and photographer, living in the UK. I travel the world, meet interesting people, and shoot them. I shoot anything else that moves. I also shoot things that don't move. And if I'm not sure whether or not it moves, I shoot it anyway.
I became a "Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society" (LRPS) in November 2001.
Eur Ing Barry Pearson BSc(Hons) FBCS CITP CEng LRPS.
(I no longer go rock climbing! I only did it for the photography, and never managed fully to conquer my fear of heights).
Copyright
I own the copyright to all my images and text on this website. Publishing them on the Internet does not reduce my rights in law. They are not "in the public domain".
These photographs must not be used for anything other than private use. They must certainly not be used for commercial purposes, or for display on another medium such as a website or newsletter, etc. To show them to someone, tell them the URL instead. But see below:
The limited right to copy or create thumbnails
I grant a limited right to copy thumbnails from this website, or to create and use a thumbnail from part of a page of this website, without explicit permission. This must be for the purpose of providing a link back to the relevant part of this website, as a replacement for, or in addition to, a conventional text link. They must also be accompanied by my name to ensure that it is clear who created the original work.
The thumbnail will either link to the same page that the thumbnail would link to here, or to a more generic page, such as one of the galleries. An example of the former use is at Giraffe Central, which uses one of my thumbnails, and many others, in an effective way. I have used this technique myself to link to the websites of other people, always with the intention of directing interested readers to those other websites.
Sales
However, most of the the images and text are for sale. If you want to use them other than for your own private purposes, you should negotiate commercial terms with me for non-exclusive rights to use the material, at a price agreed by me. (A few of the pictures have used professional models under a contract that does not automatically permit commercial use of the photographs. However, even this is negotiable).
The images shown on this web site are size-reduced and compressed. The commercially available pre-web & pre-print files are vastly higher resolution, and much larger! For example, a typical photograph may be a Photoshop (PSD) file of about 40 megabytes & about 4500 by 3000 pixels, instead of a web-oriented (JPEG) file of about 40 kilobytes & about 500 by 350 pixels.
There is more information about image sizes in my information about my Frigatebird picture, and my information about my Central Park landscape.
This web site
This web site is about my business activities and my photography.
I want to show a new edition of this web site on the 1st of each month, although I have missed several! I intend to add new photographs & also to steadily add some instructive material, including details of what work I have done to each photograph.
For many years, I took 35mm slides almost exclusively. I scanned them into my PC and processed them with Photoshop. Since about mid-2004, I have been using a digital SLR as well, shooting raw and converting to DNG. I normally don't publish them "straight to the web", but tend to print each photograph first at least at A4 so that I know I have a good quality source file.