These are the answers to some frequently asked questions for this website, PNWLens Collection. Some answers may be a bit different for the primary site and blog PNWLens.com.
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About this website
What is the difference between this site and PNWLens.com?
In part, two sites was because of indecisiveness…but I kept two because, in the future, I now have a nice place to showcase some of my favorite photos or event to do private galleries or proofing if I ever get around to portrait photography. I’m not planning on starting a photography studio or a wedding photography business, but I could see instances where I wanted to have proofing capabilities. I also own lifetime licenses to more than one photography plugin. I think one handles blog-type content better and another is better for showcasing. Perhaps I’ll write about all of the plugins I’ve tried in the near future.
Image and Gallery FAQ
Finding Images
There are a few ways to find images on this website:
- You’ll find an image search bar on the homepage of this site.
- Using the search icon in the site header will search posts and galleries — but you can then open a gallery and view images within that gallery. Where a journal entry is about a specific photo, I’ve tried to link to the gallery that is home to that photo.
- Browse. Go to galleries and browse through the galleries there. They are in chronological order according to when they were added, but I’ll likely add individual categories in the header menu as I get more added.
Do you allow guest images on the website?
I do not plan to allow guest images on this website.
How can I use photos on this website?
On this website, most of the images are available for download for purchase and I might set up some pricelists for prints. I have a wider variety of photos on PNWLens.com and some of those are available for direct, instant, and free download (unless you’d like to donate:)
Advertising
I add this section as I’ll, likely, eventually get asked about these items.
Guest/sponsored posts or link back Requests
Question: Do you accept guest posts or sponsored posts or will you add my link to your blog post?
I do not intend to put guest or sponsored posts on this website.
Offers of various services
Question: I want to offer SEO services/I can help put your site first on Google/I can help redesign your website.
Answer: I am interested in none of these things. Thank you.
Advertising on this website
Do you sell ad space on this website?
I do not plan to run ads on this website, unless it is a very limited number of contextual ads in the galleries. But likely I will keep this website ad-free.
Newsletters
Note that newsletter lists are maintained on this site (not managed by an outside service such as Mailchimp).
Lists are shared between PNWLens.com and its annex as the content between sites is similar. This means that I (eventually) import subscribers between sites, but keep their preferences the same. This also means, however, that preference changes on one site do not always get updated in the other site as I get no notification about preference changes. If I get an unsubscribe from one list, the subscriber gets unsubscribed from the other list manually as I do get notifications about that.
Double opt-in is configured for newsletters. If you get an email asking you to confirm that you want to subscribe and you never tried to subscribe, just don’t respond. Anyone can come along and put an email address in a form. If you don’t respond, no account has been created for you and you won’t end up getting newsletters.
You should be able to unsubscribe by following a link in the footer of any email newsletter. If you are having difficulty, please contact me. It is not “rigged.” If you’ve worked with websites, WordPress, or computers..or any tech for that matter…you probably know that things can have glitches. I have not experienced that on this website, but it takes getting notified about such a problem. Trust that I really do not want to keep you on a list that you don’t want to be on.
Shop and Photo Purchases
On the main PNWLens.com site, there is a “shop,” or at least can be one. On this website, you may purchase images from some of the lightboxes, or even prints. Checkout here is done without creating an account of any sort. You’ll be provided with a link to download your images. Any prints, unless it’s stated that they are manually fulfilled, are automatically fulfilled by WHCC.
Returns
On this site, most prints ordered would be fulfilled by WHCC and returns would need to go through them. Please contact me with the issue if there is one and I will work on returns with them. Returns are not possible on orders for any portraits, personal images, etc. unless there is a problem with the print.
Downloads are non-refundable. If you find that there is an issue with your file download, contact me and I’ll find the image file in my archives. There should not be an issue — however, the very first few photos that were uploaded to this site were before I remembered that WordPress now likes to resize images by default. I disabled that “feature” right away but there’s a chance that I didn’t identify each and every image that had been “crunched.”