Do you need to credit these meadow photos? – Curated Meadow Photos

No. Attribution is not required for any permitted use, anywhere.

But this catalogue is used heavily in books, journals and educational material, where crediting is the norm for reasons that have nothing to do with licensing, so the practical advice is about captions rather than permission.

A caption that earns its space

For grassland material, the reader wants three things, in this order: what the plant is, where it is, and when.

Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) in unimproved hay meadow, Yorkshire Dales, June

That caption teaches. Meadow photo — meadowclub.online does not, and the source line is the least interesting part of it.

Use what is recorded, and nothing more

Species, location and season are on the image page where they were documented. Where a field is blank, it was not documented, and inventing it for a caption is how errors reach print and then get repeated by whoever reads your page next.

If a location is deliberately withheld, that is because the species is subject to disturbance or collection pressure. Please do not work around it.

House styles

Most publishers credit every photograph and will have a format. Follow theirs; it changes nothing about your rights.

For picture credit schedules, the useful identifiers are the asset id and the PayPal order id. Both are stable, both are on your receipt, and both survive a filename being changed by whoever handled the file last.

What a credit does not do

It does not extend the licence, does not substitute for buying one, and creates no right to redistribute the file. It must not imply that this site endorses your publication or has reviewed its claims.

Alt text

For anything published on the web, alt text is required by accessibility practice and a credit is not alt text. Describe the picture for someone who cannot see it, in the context of the page: "Ox-eye daisies and grasses in a hay meadow, backlit by low sun."

The description on each image page is written to be usable as a starting point. Adapt it rather than pasting it across twenty pages; the whole value of alt text is that it is specific to the page it sits on.

Species names in alt text

One refinement specific to this catalogue. If the species matters to the page, put it in the alt text as well as the caption, because a screen reader user reaches the alt text and may never reach the caption.

Keep the Latin binomial in the caption rather than the alt text where both exist; spelled out by a screen reader, a binomial is a long interruption, and the common name usually carries the meaning.