How to Use this Site
Welcome to photoscot.co.uk - David Palmar's photography site, which has pictures of birds, animals, plants, some insects, scottish scenery and people interacting with nature. The site contains photos from much of Scotland (see map page), and is expanding to include more photos.
The site is really in two sections - text-based information pages, of which this is one, and an image search facility.
Image Search
The site has several ways in which you can search for images -
- A text search in the bottom right hand corner, similar to how Google works -
- it will recognise whole keywords or key phrases which you type in, but not parts of words.
- these might be bird, animal or place names, concepts such as conservation or urban birding, or even names of some islands of the Outer Hebrides in Gaelic
- The search is not case-sensitive, and will also recognise some plurals.
- It will work best if the search is specific, e.g. Fieldfare, rather than Thrush. Although Thrush will also work, it may give too many hits, and you will have to search for Fieldfares amongst pictures of Redwings, Mistle Thrushes and Song Thrushes.
- A map search which allows you to click on red dots, each of which represents a story (one or more visits to a particular place). Every photo taken at that place will then show up.
- A clickable list of keywords and key phrases, called the Topic Index. This is worth a short look, to give you a flavour of the range of topics which there are photos of.
- Clicking on a link can also search, for example if you click this link, you should find all the images of Whooper Swans.
- Finally from the Home Page you can browse by gallery (birds, beasts, plants or scenes).
Its best use is to see what's been uploaded recently in each of these areas, but otherwise it's probably the least useful way to use the site, as it will result in too many hits and you will almost certainly want to narrow down your search
The Shopping Cart
When you have found what you are looking for, and want to look at the cost of buying it, either digitally or as a print or greetings card, you can (without any commitment to purchase) put it into the shopping cart.
Cards are sold in 5s, due to printing, packing and shipping costs, so you can have 5 of the same card, or one of each of 5 cards, or a pack of cards which you can see if you click on Browse Products.
You can change the number of items and/or the size, and the cost will change to match what you have chosen.
Google Checkout
If you wish to make a purchase, click "I have read and agree to abide by the terms and conditions" then click the Google Checkout button.
Photoscot will not make your details available to any third party, except with your specific approval.
You will then be asked by the secure site Google Checkout for your email, postal address and credit card details. A debit will be made by Photoscot from your account only when your order is ready for dispatch.
Photoscot will not have access to your credit card details. That is a transaction only between you as a customer and Google Checkout.
You will receive an email confirmation of your order. Photoscot will also receive an email alerting us to your order.
If it is a digital image, that should normally be sent fairly quickly by email attachment, unless there is some extra work to be done, for example an extra large file, or specific dimensions or format which has to be created specially.
Normally, printed orders will be fulfilled within a few days, but if there is an undue delay in fulfilling your order, perhaps due to a delay in printing, you will be informed by email.