About

Hi, I’m Randy Stewart and I like my photos extra large

When I edit my photos, I view them on a 24″ monitor full bleed. Once I’ve picked the photos I’m going to use, I upload them to Flickr where they are chained for eternity at 500 by 333 pixels. About a year ago, I discovered a wonderful site, The Big Picture, curated by Alan Taylor at Boston.com, the online home of the Boston Globe. If you haven’t been to the site, I apologize for ruining your productivity for the next couple of hours.

The basic idea is that pictures that might only be shown in small form on a newspaper cover or Web site, are blown up to about 1000 by 660 pixels. Certainly big enough to see the details, but more importantly, to see what the photographer saw and to tell their story.

In my humble way, I’m imitating the Big Picture at least in that I wanted to display my photos in large form. Many pictures I take are dark, as I eschew flash (mainly because I don’t have an external one), but the details are there, provided the image is large.

Creative Commons License

I make most of my photos available for use via a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, even if you work is commercial. Note that for pictures of people, I have no signed waiver for any of my photos, nor am I a lawyer. Use at your own peril.

The conditions of using my photos are simple. If you use an image, please provide a link back to my Web site, blog.stewtopia.com.

This work by Randy Stewart is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.