Image Credits and Photo Sources

Fifty-three of the photographs on this site were taken by other people and are used under Creative Commons licences. Those licences let anyone republish the picture, including commercially, provided the credit is right. Getting the credit right is what this page is for: the photograph, the photographer, the licence and a link back to the original, for every one of them.

Thirty-one came through Geograph Britain and Ireland, the project photographing every square kilometre of the country, and twenty-two from other uploads to Wikimedia Commons. Twenty-three photographers are credited. Everything else on the site, including the location photography in our own picture library, is ours or used with permission.

If you want to reuse one of these pictures, the next two sections set out what each licence allows and how to write a credit that satisfies it. If you are a rights holder and something here is wrong, contact us.

What each Creative Commons licence lets you do

Every licence on this page permits commercial use and permits you to alter the photograph. What separates them is whether you must name the photographer, and whether what you make from the picture has to carry the same licence.

BY means attribution: name the photographer. SA means share-alike: if you crop, recolour or build something new on top of the photograph, the result has to go out under the same licence. In practice that rules out folding a BY-SA picture into closed work you intend to keep all rights over. Reproducing the photograph unchanged is not an adaptation, so share-alike does not bite there, and the credit is the whole of the obligation.

CC0 is a waiver rather than a licence: the photographer has given up their rights and no credit is required at all. One photograph here is CC0 and is credited anyway, because naming the person who took the picture costs nothing.

The version numbers matter less than people expect. 4.0 is the current international wording and is the most explicit that a link can satisfy attribution; 2.0 and 3.0 are earlier wordings of the same bargain. The licence deed on the Creative Commons site governs in every case, and this page is a credit list, not legal advice.

How to credit a photograph correctly

A credit that satisfies these licences names four things: the title of the photograph, the photographer, where you found it, and the licence. The Creative Commons shorthand for it is TASL, for title, author, source and licence, and each of the four should be a link wherever a link exists.

For the first entry in the list below, that comes out as:

"Bournemouth, Bournemouth Pier" by Lewis Clarke, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.

Two mistakes account for almost every bad credit. The first names the website a picture was found on instead of the person who took it, which credits the wrong party. The second leaves the licence off, so a reader has no way of knowing what they may do with the image in turn. Neither satisfies the terms, and both take one line to fix.

Where these photographs come from

Geograph Britain and Ireland

Thirty-one of the fifty-three, identifiable by geograph.org.uk in the filename. Geograph's volunteers photograph every grid square in Britain and Ireland and release the results under CC BY-SA 2.0, which is why that one licence covers most of this page. Their coverage of the Dorset coast is unusually thorough, and it is the reason the quieter corners of this site are illustrated at all: the fenced path above Southbourne beach, the beach road at the foot of Durley Chine, the Double Dykes earthworks on Hengistbury Head.

Other Wikimedia Commons uploads

Twenty-two, put up by their photographers under a range of licences. These are mostly the landmarks and the set pieces: the Oceanarium, the Russell-Cotes, Christchurch Priory, the Red Arrows over the bay, Bournemouth Pier lit at night.

Our own photography

Everything not listed on this page. The picture library holds the location photography we shoot ourselves, and the terms for reusing it are set out on the image licence page: free to use, including commercially, with a visible and followable credit back to the page the photograph came from.

The photographers

Twenty-three people are credited here. Four of them took three fifths of the pictures between them.

• Lewis Clarke - 13 photographs: the seafront, both piers and most of the Lower Gardens
• Jonathan Hutchins - 9: Hengistbury Head, Durley Chine, Westbourne and the Big Wheel at night
• Robert Linsdell - 7: the Boscombe, Alum Chine and Bournemouth Beach series
• Des Blenkinsopp - 3: Boscombe beach and its beach huts

Two each from Fr James Bradley, for Christchurch Priory, and ITookSomePhotos, for Christchurch Harbour. One each from Michael Dibb, Tiia Monto, Geni, Christopher Hilton, Bellminsterboy, Nigel Cox, DEverett, Judy Dean, Malcolm Gould, Davey8mybaby, Dr Neil Clifton, Rad Dougall, Iain Lees, Ian Kirk, Memorialman, John Ward and Hassocks5489.

What is pictured, and where to read about it

These are photographs of real places, and each of those places has a page here.

The piers and the beaches

Eight photographs are of the two piers: Bournemouth Pier, including the night shot and the lifeguard station, and Boscombe Pier with its entrance building. The beach pictures run the length of the bay from west to east, taking in Bournemouth Beach, Durley Chine, Alum Chine, Boscombe and Southbourne, the last of them under snow. The whole set is compared on the beaches page.

Gardens, museums and the town centre

The Lower Gardens appear four times, stream and rockery included. The Russell-Cotes and the Oceanarium are both here, along with The Square, Bobby's and the view over the town from the West Cliff. The rest of the indoor options are on the attractions page.

The villages

Westbourne three times, for Seamoor Road, Poole Road and the arcade, with Boscombe and Southbourne alongside. How the villages fit together is covered in explore.

Poole, Christchurch and the coast beyond

Four photographs of Poole Quay and Poole Harbour, plus the Sandbanks groynes in winter light and at sunset. Christchurch brings the Priory three times and the harbour mouth at Mudeford twice. Hengistbury Head closes the eastern end of the bay.

Events

The Red Arrows photograph is from the Bournemouth Air Festival, and the Big Wheel by night is the town centre in winter. Current dates for both are in what's on.

Photographs of Bournemouth locations with credits

Bournemouth landmarks and scenes. Each entry gives the photograph's filename, the photographer, the Creative Commons licence and a link to the original on Wikimedia Commons.

Additional location photography credits for Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch

The wider area: Poole Quay and Harbour, Sandbanks, Christchurch Priory and Harbour, Hengistbury Head, Westbourne and Southbourne, plus further seafront and gardens photography.

Reporting a credit problem

If you took one of these photographs and the credit is wrong or incomplete, or you would rather the picture came down, contact us with the filename and we will correct the entry or remove the image.