How to Submit Images

1. Save images to a CD labeled with your name and email address. Images should be submitted on a CD (the CD won't be returned to you) labeled with your name and email address.
2. Provide basic information about the images:  designer name if known, location, and building, site or place name. Basic information about each image or group of images should be included on or accompany the CD. Images of a building or site may be grouped together with pertinent information. For example, 15 images of Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum may be grouped and simply labeled:  Calatrava, Milwaukee Art Museum. More information about an image (i.e. entrance, pedestrian bridge, detail of windows on East side) is welcome but not required.
3. Complete a VRC Gift Authorization Form.  The copyright form gives the university permission to include your images in the Digital Media Repository. The Visual Resources Collection cannot authorize publication of these images. You may continue to use and publish your images for your own purposes. Any of your images that are added to the collection will credit you as the photographer.

Please note that while all donations will be accepted, it may not be possible to include all of them in the Architecture Images collection. If you have any questions about donating images feel free to contact Cindy Turner, Visual Resources Curator, 765-285-5865.

Picture Quality
The best digital images for projection in the classroom and other projects are those with high resolution. A minimum resolution of 3.0 megapixels is best and the camera should be set to "high" picture quality. To be even more specific, a 24 bit color minimum and TIFF images of 600 dpi or greater or JPG images of 1024 x 768 pixels are preferred, but if the camera was set to high picture quality that should be sufficient. If you have any questions about the picture quality of your images feel free to contact Cindy Turner, Visual Resources Curator, 765-285-5865.

Subjects
Listed below are some of the types of images that would make good additions to the Architecture Images collection.

• Newer architecture (interiors and exteriors) or landscape architecture built in the last 15 years
• Vernacular architecture (interiors, exteriors, and grounds)—buildings that are typical of the area; usually not designed by professional architects
• Street scenes, city markets and bazaars, plazas and other public spaces
• Buildings that have been recently restored
• Works by famous designers
• Pictures without or with few people in them. Some figures in the shot can provide scale, but they can also obscure details.
• Images without a date stamp are preferred.

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6/6/07 aet