No doubt many of you, my visitors, have noted the presence of advertising at the bottom of my web pages. It is an inescapable fact of life that we live in an ever increasingly expensive world! The web hosting I chose for this web site and image galleries is not cheap but my web site hosting service offers many advantages, the most important advantage being the absolute reliability of the servers being operable 99.999% of the time. I am definitely not a rich person but I love to share my avian and nature photography with others and the Internet offers the widest possible audience with whom to share my enthusiasm and images. Hopefully, through this web site, I have inspired other photographers to pursue avian and nature photography or I have helped other photographers with techniques to make their personal photography rewarding.

As I have stated already, the expenses behind a web site, such as this one, are such that alternate methods of earning additional income becomes necessary. The advertising I employ is kept at the bottoms of my web pages (with few exceptions) so that this advertising does not interfere with my visitors enjoyment. The products I offer for sale through my equipment dealer affiliate links pay pennies-on-the-dollar commissions. Mark-ups on gift items sold through my CafePress Gift Store are minimal. However, the combined commissions are of great importance in funding this continuously growing web site.

Trust me, this is not in any way a "get-rich-quick" scheme! It is impossible to expect that affiliate links and CafePress offerings can possibly compensate for the time spent creating content for this web site, not to mention compensation for the hundreds of hours spent in the field making images and refining avian and nature photography techniques. I have no delusions that I will make a living offering goods and services through affiliate links. However, it is just one way that it is possible for me to defray the costs of hosting this web site. While you are visiting my pages, take a moment to click on some of the links and view some of the products. If you plan to make a purchase, in the future, through one of the affiliate dealers, try to use the affiliate links on this web site. Every penny earned through the affiliate links or CafePress purchases goes a long way to continuing this web site.

Thank you for your support!