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 Natural History Photography of California The Stock Photography Resource for California Marine Wildlife & Coastal Scenic Images |
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Natural History Photography of California The Stock Photography Resource for California Marine Wildlife & Coastal Scenic Images |
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Providing Signature California Images for
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Golden State Images is a digital stock agency specializing in California natural history photography. From the finest of California's scenic locations to its spectacular marine wildlife, our online library contains a diverse range of California specific material. From coastal scenics to city scapes, mountains, valleys and deserts, to whales, dolphin and sharks, you will find it here. Whether it's for corporate, advertising, editorial or general stock use, our goals are to provide professional service and the finest quality images available which capture the beauty and diversity which is California. Search our image library or Browse by Subject Categories
About the Images The wildlife images represented on this site are of wild animals photographed in their natural enviornments. No images have been digitally manipulated or altered in anyway, other than to adjust sharpness, brightness and contrast for appropriate display on a computer monitor. With few exceptions, all are displayed full frame as originally shot. Information on deliverable file formats With the exception of the Beyond California section, all wildlife and scenic images displayed on this site represent species and locations found in California. In some cases images of indigenous species are included which were photographed outside the borders of California. See Order Info for complete details on placing requests, deliverable image files, resolutions, file formats, etc. About GSI August 2007 - Added a Nikon 200-400mm F4 AF-S VR to the kit. September 2006 - Completed code for By Species Stock List June 2006 - With the addition of a Nikon D200 and Nexus Underwater Housing our transition to a pure digital capture workflow has been completed. Likely my last roll of 35mm transparency film was taken underwater on June 7, 2006 photographing Sea Stars in a tidepool north of Prince Rupert British Columbia. All future material whether on land or underwater will be captured using digital cameras exclusively. April 2006 - Completed code for A - Z Stock List auto generated from our current image database. December 2005 - Fully indexed Searchable image database added. November 2005 - GSI moved to a new hosting provider, due to increased visitor traffic and server limitations. April 2005 - After much research and effort, we completed our transition to a digital capture workflow. All future land based material will be produced using top of the line digital cameras. Starting with a Nikon D2X 12.4mp camera. For more information on how we use the D2X see our Digital Workflow notes. January 2005 - In January 2005 we started what proved to be a three month project to completely revamp and upgrade our site. Over three thousand transparencies were re-scannned using the latest in 35mm scanning technology. We instituted a new numbering system to better organize our digital library and replaced all online thumbnail images with larger re-samples of the new scans. Every image on GSI can now be clicked on to open an enlarged display of the selected image. Subject Category pages were expanded with additional material and many new category pages were added. GSI now contains over three thousand images, searchable online. November 1999 - Our initial digital library was setup and GSI went online in November of 1999. About two hundred fifty images were included on the original website. References used for location and species identification: Afoot and Afield in San Diego County, Jerry
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