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Searches

Searching by Keyword

Our Keywords are all singular.

This was done for consistency and should be applied throughout.

Our search engine utilizes Boolean logic.

This allows you to narrow the focus of your search with AND, OR and NOT statements.

Examples:

New York Bridges = (New York AND Bridge)

New York and Worldwide Bridges = (New York OR Bridge)

New York without Bridges = (New York NOT Bridge)

Proper names (such as San Francisco or George Washington) are treated as a single keyword.

Limit the number of qualifiers for best results.

The AND, OR and NOT qualifiers can be used for extended searches. However, it is not yet possible to use all three qualifiers in the same search.

For example, to review images of celebrations in Spanish-speaking countries, this can be accomplished in two steps.

First, enter "Latin" AND "America" AND "Celebration" NOT Brazil.
Second, enter "Spain" AND "Celebration".

We recommend conducting a series of searches with fewer qualifiers for the best results.

Lightboxes

If you have registered, you can create personal lightboxes to store and email images. You add images to a lightbox as you view a search result or a preview, and add the images that may fit your project.

Your lightboxes are kept for in indefinite period of time unless you delete them. You may have as many lightboxes as you wish, and each lightbox can have an unlimited number of images.

When you email a lightbox, the recipient doesn't have to be registered to view your lightbox.

Ordering Images

If you are registered, then you may order images by requesting them by email.

Rights Managed Images

Our Rights Managed (RM) images are not free. When you purchase an image from us, you do not own it; you are buying a license to use a copyrighted image that still belongs to the photographer.

Because RM images cannot be used over and over without limits, an RM image offers you and your clients more chance to illustrate your idea with an image not widely seen. When you purchase a license to an RM image, the license limits your use to a specific project, size, distribution, medium, and timeframe and price varies with these factors. To reuse the photo later on or for additional uses, you need to re-license it.

You may not use any Viesti Associates image, model released or not model released, in any pornographic, defamatory, or libelous manner. You may not use any image as a trademark or logo. You may not use any image in a manner that depicts or identifies the people shown in it in connection with sensitive subject matter (AIDS, abortion, sex, promiscuity, mental or physical ailments, illegal drugs, tobacco or firearms) unless that subject is already the content of the image. You may not use our images in a manner that is unlawful or misleading. And you may not resell our image to a party not identified in our original license to you.