Some underwater photographers on other image respository sites and web sites have mentioned to me that some of the photos in the Gallery are photos that they have taken but are posted by someone without the permission of the authors.

Just a friendly reminder that it is not appropriate to take photos from online photo groups and post them here under your name. Photographers work hard and don't really make any fair wage for their considerable efforts so we discourage such misuse.

I have been sent photos in the past when I have asked for specific animal photos to get the Gallery up. I have been told that an administrator of another forum is the one who sent me some images with the e-mail name of "J. Puutesi" which someone pointed out is an anagram for "I Set U Up", so she could then notify the photogs she took the images from and start trouble.

If we are made aware of such photos and are shown a link back to the original photographer and they are not a link style photo then we will do our best to remove them. All you have to do is ask and show it is yours and viola!