Samscapes offers an online library of high quality images shot by Samantha Beams. These include seascapes and landscapes shot in and around the town of Hermanus in the Western Cape, as well as photo’s of rare (and common) fynbos and other plants endemic to South Africa.
Images are royalty free,unless otherwise specified, and are available in 300 & 72 ppi for immediate purchase and download.
Royalty Free Licenses
Royalty free is the default license type for selling stock images. You buy the image once and it can be used in unlimited applications. This is the common license at Samscapes.
There are however some limitations. You can print up to 1/2 million copies of the image in a publication but you cannot create a derivative products using the image (one where the image forms a part of the products reason for existence e.g. a poster, calendar or t-shirt) for that you need an extended license.
Royalty Free Extended Licenses
An extended license extends the terms of a standard royalty free license so that an image can be used in derivative products (e.g. mugs, t-shits, website templates) but there are usually limits on the number of products that can be produced/sold.
At Samscapes we do not offer this as a standard license as we are printing cushion covers and prints for sale shops in our home town. If you want to use something under this license then we ask that you please contact us to arrange that.
Creative Commons Licenses
Creative commons licenses allow photographers to protect their work in simple to understand terms while still providing it for use free of charge to image users. Creative commons license always require an attribution (a credit to the image creator) and in a lot of cases require that derivative work be ‘shared alike’, images are often not available for commercial use. More about creative commons licenses.