US naval aviation photo reference

[aircraftprofiles]

I have just relaunched my website www.aircraftprofiles.dk . I have decided to keep a photo section on my site, but have reorganized the section completly. At the moment i have added about 150-200 photos all of aircraft that served under CVW-1. Comming is all the rest of the carrier air wings, and then i´ll move on to shorebased air wings. i´ll be continously adding photos, but have a looong way to go, with some 30000 photos on file. I hope you´ll stop by, my site, and let me know what you think. You can sign up for the RSS feed if you want news when the site is updated.

[dmk0210]

Nice site, beautiful artwork and interesting photos.

I have one nitpick though. I understand the unfortunate need to watermark your photos. However, the watermark across the center is extremely distracting. It is a total turn-off to enjoying the photos. I gave up viewing them after just a few.

[aircraftprofiles]

Thanks ! i see your point ! i have found a differnet way to add watermakr, which might be more subtle. I´ll try that out on the CVW-2 batch.

thanks

[mudrat]

Thanks ! i see your point ! i have found a differnet way to add watermakr, which might be more subtle. I´ll try that out on the CVW-2 batch.

thanks

Given that you don't own the copyrights to the photos, why watermark them. They only ruin the pictures.

I quit veiwing your sight after a few minutes. Probably won't return if watermarks continue.

[aircraftprofiles]

thanks stephen...I recieve the photos from contributors, that only will offer their photos for my website if the photos are watermarked. My approach to this is: I rather have watermarked photos, than no photos at all. But i´m sure you can find the same photo reference elsewhere.

[mudrat]

thanks stephen...I recieve the photos from contributors, that only will offer their photos for my website if the photos are watermarked. My approach to this is: I rather have watermarked photos, than no photos at all. But i´m sure you can find the same photo reference elsewhere.

Funny you should say that, since until just recently, photos on your website in the past contained no

watermarks.

[aircraftprofiles]

You are right. The guys that send me their photos, don´t like seeing their photos pop up on other websites and even in publication, so we made the deal that if i was to use their photos on my site, it woul dbe with a watermark . So again: it was either a watermark or no photos at all. But Mudrat: I agree with you, it would be better without the watermarks, but unfortunatly that´s not an option, at least not for me. Luckly there´s some fine photo collections elsewhere on the internet, where there´s no watermarks. Thanks for taking your time to comment on my site

Edited April 26, 2011 by aircraftprofiles