To Find Your Photos Click Your Nick in the Keyword Cloud Below:
To Buy One ($24.95)
1) Choose your favorite photo,
2) Click the "BUY Photos" button,
3) Click "Downloads,"
4) Click "Single Photo Download Hi-Res 4Mpix -- $24.95,"
5) Click "Add to Cart,"
(Note: It is not too late to change your mind and "Buy ALL"! Simply Click "Continue Shopping" and purchase a second download. Since two downloads = one "Buy ALL" package -- we will automatically convert your order!)
6) Click "Check Out."
After Checking Out, SmugMug will advise us of your order. Within 7-days (usually much sooner) we will replace that miserable little proof with a large, Hi-Res (6 MB+), carefully cropped and meticulously edited Digital Photo, release your order and SmugMug will email it to you.
Mahalo!
To Buy All ($49.90)
1) Choose ONE Proof -- any one but just one,
2) Click the "Buy Photos" Button,
3) Click "Downloads,"
4) Click "Original -- $49.90,"
5) Click "Add to Cart,"
6) Click "Check Out."
After Checking Out, SmugMug will advise us of your order. Within 7-days (usually sooner) we will replace all those miserable little proofs with the real High-Res, carefully cropped and completely edited Digital Files and email you the link, password and password hint to your very own VIP Gallery.
Mahalo
To Buy Prints ($27.95 & Up)
For consumer-priced prints use a service like Costco's.
However, for best in class, heirloom quality prints use our shopping cart for
Enlargements, Fine Art, Wall Art, Desk Art, Keepsakes and Albums.
For that elegant and distinctive look your Masterpiece deserves choose from a plethora of sizes printed on Fine Art Papers, Canvas, Glass, Metal, Acrylic, Wood, etc. and choose from myriads of Surfaces, Mattings, Mountings, Textures, Decorative and Protective Coatings.
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Keyword Cloud: Click Your Nick!
If your nick doesn't appear in the Cloud (listed alphabetically by FIRST name), check if your Bib # is listed numerically. If still nothing, check the "Lost" Swim, Bike & Run Galleries.
Note: Even if your name is in the Cloud:
It is possible you (or folks you know) have more un-identified images in the "Lost" galleries. In fact, if you do not have at least one sequence leaving the water and/or the dash to the transition area, at least one sequence on your bike and at least one sequence from your run it is very likely there are "LOST " photos of you. The "Lost" galleries are easy to page through 20 thumbnails per click (at least on a desktop or laptop monitor) so even a quick scan could identify some images. If you do find any lost photos please inform us by email (randy@randyhi.com) of the competitor's name and at least one image number per sequence and we will tag them. Thank you!
About Our Sports Photos.
Proofs: “What you see is NOT what you get.”
When you order you are seeing proofs. After you place your order, your proof will be replaced with the nicely edited photo(s) you are buying. The proof delay allows us a few days to make this exchange.
What you see:
The purpose of Proofs is to give you an overall impression of the image, especially your expression and posture. Are your eyes open, tongue in, showing good form, etc..
Watermarking:
Even though proofs are pitiful, tiny, low-res, often too dark or too light, too far, yukky skin tone, etc. experience has taught us that they are nevertheless subject to unlicensed use. Therefore, they are also HEAVILY Watermarked!
What you get:
Large, Cropped, Highly edited, Frame filling, Color corrected, Exposure corrected, Contrast adjusted, High resolution (6MP+) digital files suitable for most uses including printing and framing -- even up to wall décor and poster sizes!
About tagging (Keywording):
Tagging is how you find your photos. For triathlons tagging is done using the number written on your arm -- preferably both arms (Swim), the labels you stick on the TOP of your helmet for while you are riding head down, FRONT while you are riding head up and on the left and right sides for profile photos (Bike) and your properly worn bib (Run). When these measures fail, and they occasionally do, the last resort is photos taken within a minute or two of a timing strip so the photo's time can be synced to the race time. (There will also be a last hope "Lost" Galleries for you to rummage through.)
About Our Philosophy:
We are a small company and proud of it. Our competitors specialize in big even HUGE events and often multiple events per weekend spread out over multiple continents. To cope with up to a million images per week, they have no choice but to instruct their photographers to shoot tiny low-res images and they do no editing! To fill their orders all they do is remove their watermarks!
That is them -- that is not us! Our photographers shoot to two memory cards. Yes, one card is for tiny images that will never be edited but the other card is recording Very High Resolution RAW image files of 25 Mbytes and larger! These are the files that are edited to within an inch of their lives when we fill you order! It is this meticulous attention to detail that allows us to offer up to wall-sized photo décor. We think this allows our product to stand above the rest!