Hi. I am with the California Department of Pesticide Regulation in the Endangered Species Program. I am requesting your permission to use the Las Pilitas Nursery photographs of "Brandegees Sage; Davidson's Bush Mallow; Felt-leaved Monardella; San Luis Obispo County Lupine." With your permission, these photos will be used in our online database and the Endangered Species Protection
county bulletins. Should you have any questions regarding this request please contact me at the following address


I love yourbutterfly gardening site! It is informative and beautiful.

I am a volunteer working on an outdoorbutterflydisplay signfor ...

I would love to include a few of your photos in the display. Unfortunately, I do not have any budget to create the signage. But I would be able to credit you for any photos used.If you could help by granting permission to use your material, I'd be so grateful!.

The focus of my display is on colors in butterflies so I am looking for photos that highlight colors and patterns. I am also featuring butterflies that would be found in the Russian Ridge/ Skyline Ridge/Long Ridge area of Northern California. I would potentially be interested in photos of western tiger swallowtail, west coast lady, lorquin's admiral, california sister and common buckeye. I am not sure which I would actually use, it depends how the display evolves and how much room I have for photos.

Would I have permission to print your photos and include them in the display?

Let me know if you are interested. In any case, thanks for sharing your photos on the web! - I enjoyed them!


use freely, just credit www.laspilitas.com

We are photo researchers locating images for college texts. We have downloaded a photo from your website of an Alfalfa butterfly with its proboscis in a flower, feeding. It is being used in two texts

that would be fine, credit as "courtesy of www.laspilitas.com"

Your photo of the spice bush is a very deep red. I want to know if the colors vary according to region. I am in Florida and have a very brown flower but otherwise looks like your picture.

you have Calycanthus floridus
we have Calycanthus occidentalis
go to Google images and cut and paste yours in

hi -- This is a weird question. I belong to a watercolor group -- and we are painting pictures of flowers. I am wondering if it would be okay if I use some of your photos for references of various flowers? I'd be happy to send you copies of the finished paintings if they turn out.

(everyone thinks their questions are weird, except the ones with weird questions)

no problem, label back of picture where it came from
we do not need copies, just tag the picture with our website and all will be well
good luck with the paintings

I am an eighth grade student at ...School... I am doing a project on Nature Identification, which is an online study guide for Girl Scouts younger than myself to help thenm prepare for Girl Scout Camp Competitions. This is a project for school, as well as Girl Scouts. This may be my Silver Award Project which is a major award you can earn as a Cadette. I would like your permission to use some of the pictures from your website catalog for this project. Would you please let me know ASAP. Thank You!

I'm impressed
yes you can use the. put a small font note saying "used with permission, www.laspilitas.com"

good, and run for office

I enjoyed visiting your site. We are needing a photo of Petrophytum caespitosum showing a close-up of the flower, such as you have on the bottom of this page:
< http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/491.htm

Can you supply photo of this to us?

nope
sorry, I had a fit getting that grainy one and I doubt I could find it again as it's unnamed in 20,000 images

I am a student at Cuesta College and I wanted to know if it would
be alright if I could take pictures of some of your plants for a
Biology assignment? It would be greatly appreciated.

fine

I am a Master Gardener from Tulare County and am putting together an educational speech for local garden clubs, schools etc. on developing a hummingbird garden. You have absolutely wonderful pictures. May I use them in my presentation as long as I let people know where they come from?

yes, that would be fine

I work for the Center for Biological Diversity, a non profit environmental
orgranization, and I'm tracking down photos for our annual report. I'm
wondering if you would give us the photographer's contact information so we may
ask permission to use the coastal sage scrub photo found at the link below? It's
the first photo on the right, with the caption "Coastal Sage Scrub in beach sand
in Los Osos, California"

credit to www.laspilitas.com

Would you please let me know if you would consent to our branch of the California Master Gardeners to use the pictures I selected from your website with the acknowledgement and use them in my paper on the CD?

just reference them to www.laspilitas.com

We would like to obtain a five-year copyright permission to use your image of
Yerba buena (Satureja douglasii), which we found at
http://www.laspilitas.com/garden/maydrysha.htm in our website

(Also, on another note, some text (which links to your email) is nearly entirely
covered by a picture on your homepage: www.laspilitas.com )

that would be fine, a link back to us with a copyright permission is what we want

thanks, you're probably in IE, which is totally non-complaint and drives us crazy as we're using Firebird and Mozilla.

Hi Mr. Wilson--My name is ....... I'm the Managing Editor at ...... we are publishing ...... gardening book .... for this spring. She mentioned to me that on your website you have an image of a flower species for which we need an image in the book--Mimulus lewisii. In order to get this image, is there any possibility that you could download it to me at 300 dpi as a high-resolution jpeg? For the purposes of book printing we cannot print a full-color image that is below 300 dpi. From the look of it on your website, the image looks grainy (fuzzy), but that could be of its large size (blown-up on the web page). Please let me know as soon as possible.




that photo needs to be deinterfaced, I did that
It is pre-digital and we were lucky to get it, I'm still looking to see if there is a better image on file, so far no go.
Can't you downsize the photo to make it work? get your 300 dpi by moving down to a 1 inch photo?

  I used your website for a project, and I need a proper bibliography. For
my bibliography I would like to know if there was a single person in charge
of <http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/2.htm, and when and where the website
was posted. My partner and I would really appreciate you responding as soon
as possible.

just quote “used with permission, www.laspilitas.com

I am working on making a gopher killing company over in Idaho.

I was wondering if I could use your gopher picture; the one that shows

the gopher with its head sticking out of it's gopher den on the surface.

I will fully credit your site and make sure that your company name is under

the picture.

This would be very helpful if I could please use it.



If for any reason you can't allow me to put this on my site then I

will respect that completely.

I will eventually get my own pictures on the site but as of right now I am

still in the process of sorting things out.



Thank you very much for considering this request enough that you

take your time to read this.

I will respect any restrictions that you may have with images.

Thank you so very much and I hope your buisness in the future goes well.


sure you may use it, all we request is a hyperlink from the

picture or provided by or what ever to www.laspilitas.com in small

font(2) is ok

I don't even care if our name is mentioned, just the hyperlink


I would like to use a couple of butterfly photos from your

website with a link to your website on the photos and on my website.

I did not notice a copyright on the photos.

that's fine, in the alternate text say courtsey of www.laspilitas.com or

link directly to the page with the same picture.

the way i understand it, original works are by default under copyright

law, the copyright makes it easier to prove



Most of the catalog is copyrighted.

I am preparing a nature note for the Topanga Canyon Docents on the subject of woodpeckers in oak woodlands. I would like permission to use photos of the acorn and Nuttall's woodpeckers contained in your website for this note. The note will be distributed to other docents as part of their training package.

that is fine as long as it is credited to our web site, you can use real small fonts if you wish

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