Learn about photos
Photos have dimensions and file sizes. You have the option to download photos for free from our photo gallery.
- small, thumbnail sized images are displayed on the page in webp format so that it loads super fast
- "download medium" is the link to use to download the medium sized photo
- the numbers under "download medium" are the number of pixels (little dots) that an image is made of
- "download large" works similarly
- the first number is the width
- the second number is the height (tall)
- the third number is the size of the file for the image in KB or MB
- KB = KiloBytes (thousands)
- MB = MegaBytes (millions)
- GB = GigaBytes (billions)
- TB = TeraBytes (trillions)
- There are more than 80GB worth of photos in this photo gallery (that's a lot)
- 1000KB = 1MB (some systems round down like this example, others are 1024KB = 1MB; we'll use 1000 for explanation purposes)
- Example: an image shown as (1024x674 105KB) is 1024 pixels wide by 674 pixels tall and is 105KB or .1MB; quite small; it would be good to use on a web page or Facebook post
- Example: an image shown as (4032x3024 2MB) is 4032 pixels wide by 3024 pixels tall and is 2000KB or 2MB; fairly large; it would be a good image to keep
- Facebook "dumbs down" their photos, so uploading a large photo doesn't do a lot of good
- Downloading a larger image takes longer and takes more space on your device; but if you want to keep the image, we recommend downloading the large version
- 2 different photos at the same dimensions can be different because of how the images were created
- All photos in our galleries are in JPG (compressed) format (some camera's create RAW images, which are usually twice as big in file size with the same dimensions as a JPG)
- Cameras compress photos differently as well
- Our photos have been typically shot with a smartphone, a DSLR, a drone, and a Mirrorless camera; images in more recent galleries will have more pixels than older ones
- Images 4000 pixels wide or more are suitable to print in 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, or even 11x14
- Images 6000 pixels wide are magazine (and possibly billboard) quality
- You can create zip files of the medium and large size photos in this album so you only need to download one file to get all of the photos; it can take a while to create the zip files
- Macs unzip your files automatically; if you are using Windows you will need to extract the files from the zip file
