Photo Gallery
With this new photo gallery, previous users will need a new password -- please the see the email that has been sent to you, use the password supplied and then obtain a new password here.
New users should register below as indicated.
The Vita Photo Gallery is designed as a resource for beekeepers across the globe giving public talks. Users may download Gallery images to use in their live presentations. This service is free provided that users adhere to the Conditions of Use (see below)
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Registration
To access the Gallery, just register your name, email address, country, and postcode or zipcode and choose a password.
Or logon if you have already registered.
Vita will not pass your details to any other individual or organisation, except for the purposes of administering the Gallery pages.)
Conditions of use
Photos and images may be downloaded free of charge on condition that they are used only for educational purposes and not for commercial gain or published in any form (including web and newsletter publication).
If you have any queries about usage, please contact gallery@vita-europe.com.
Credits
The Gallery images come from several sources. Vita would particularly like to thank the Hampshire Beekeepers Association and Mike Lambert for the use of many of their photographs. (Many of those come from the library of the late Frank Vernon.) John Hanks also of Hampshire has supplied a series of photographs including high-magnification images of honeybee anatomy.
How to use the gallery
You can access thumbnails of images via the general index or the keyword search facility. To download an image, simply click on the 'download' link. If you want to see the image full size then click on the thumbnail. The image can then be downloaded from the full size image by clicking on the 'download' button. In either case the image can then be stored to your own PC.
Please note that you must logon to be able to see and download the full image.
What's available - latest update 15th April 2011
The Photo Gallery is growing steadily, so it is worth checking back regularly. Latest additions:
- one hundred photos for the Vita Gallery Photo Competition
- two photos of 19th century Neighbour hive marking transition from skep to moveable frame hives from Chris Hone
- four photos of beees on comb, some in close-up from Scott Famous
- seven more superb photos from Apimondia Gold Medal winning photographer Franc Sivic
What users say
I think it great that Vita offers these images
Thank you for providing this valuable resource.
I am preparing a talk for later this month and find many of the images very useful.
Some super photos, the microscopy ones very special.
I thought I'd tell you what a strong shudder your image of the varroa on a bee pupa produced.
If I were a maiden I would think my prayers had been answered