Welcome to the Stone's Throwe Photo website.

Stone's Throwe Photo is a stock photography outlet for Iowa photographer Larry Reynolds and other commercial photographers based in and around central Iowa. The company began as Reynolds Photography in the late '60's and has specialized in commercial & portrait photography and sales of unframed photographic prints since the mid-'70's.

Print and image sales went "internet" in February of 2005, and Reynolds Photography was joined by Iowa photographers Jen McKibben, Toni Kirschbaum, Dave Warner, Richard Hildreth, and Whitney Warner.

Our passion is photography, and we hope you enjoy our images here, on line, as much as we enjoy creating them.

We sell quality prints, digital stock images, and provide commercial photography services in the Des Moines, Iowa, metro area.

Photography.

Digital or film photography, print restoration or scanning, and graphic work is charged hourly. Call for rates.

We have photographers available for portrait, commercial, event, and free-lance assignment work.

Yes, wholesale prices for prints, posters, and cards are available to retailers and for bulk orders.

Not all of our available stock images are shown on the site, if you have a specific stock image need that isn't posted, call or email and we can check our off line images and other resources for a match.

Payments and Off- Line Orders.

Order any image, CD, or print, from the SmugMug side of this website [ Galleries by Subject is a good starting page ] or off-line, by phone, at [515]-267-1436.

We accept MasterCard, Visa, and American Express credit cards on line, or by phone and accept business and personal checks by mail.

Orders are shipped or processed on receipt of payment. Some prints may require 3 or more days to process before mailing. Orders requiring shipping are sent US Mail, FedEx, or UPS.

Digital files are forwarded electronically or shipped by mail on CD/DVD. Largest file that can be forwarded electronically by email is approx. 9 meg. FTP file transfers can be arranged for larger files.

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If you are a commercial photographer interested in listing images on this website, note that while we do not solicit images from others, we can accept images from 'non-member' photographers. Click here for submission guidelines : Submission Guidelines

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Print and Image Sales.

Most of the images displayed on the website are available as unframed, unsigned, prints on quality photo paper including Moab, Epson, Kodak, and Fuji papers, in just about any size, for a reasonable fee.

Generally the image is centered on the standard sized paper with a minimum border of about 1/2 inch to 1-1/2 inches. Due to an image's shape some prints will have larger borders and some borders may be up to 3" or so on two sides. Some images may have larger borders due to technical limitations of the image file or ratios of the image's shape or size. The bigger the print size, the larger the cost.

The image below shows the general layout of a typical 11x14 print.

Larger sized prints have similar image to paper size ratios.

If you need custom borders on a print or cannot get proper framing of the image in the on line order preview window for the size print you want, call or email. We can can customize the cropping to order for most prints sizes.

Digital Images.

Many of the images shown on this website are also available as a digital file. Rates on digital images are royalty free, but not all images shown are available for sale as digital files.

There are special rates available for single use publication of images or single use art applications. Call [515] 267-1436 or email for those rates.

Many digital images may also be purchased for unlimited use by the purchaser. Charges for these rights to an image vary by image and photographer. Most files are immediately available as .jpg files. Other common computer formats are available on custom order or request [tif, psd, pdf, etc.]

Decoding file or catalog numbers.

Files are named in the following format: xxx-name-season-location-date-modifier-seriesnumber.filetype.

The reason the files are named this way is so, at a glance, you, the customer, may get a general idea of what the subject is, when and where the photo was taken, all without having to open the metadata file. This also minimizes the photographer's written entries at the time the image is submitted to us.

The file numbers for the files listed are coded or cataloged generally as .jpg files. As an example "016 flower_lily winter chicago_ill 29feb87 c1 bw 2569.jpg" decodes as follows -

'016' is the photographer's identifier or code - this is an optional entry and may or may not be included in the file name . It can be 3 digit number or letters.

'flower_lily' is the subject of the image, this entry is usually singular and is a very simple description of the subject

'winter' is the season, this entry was needed to keep the newer images compatible with an analog file system from pre-metadata times. Season names used were winter, spring, summer, & fall. Note: season entries are being phased out as time permits.

'chicago_ill' is the location the photo was taken. The underline connects a city and a state or a multi-word location. States usually have three letter identifiers and if no state is listed, the photo was taken in Iowa. 'co' indicates county. A photo taken in an Iowa county would read ' dallas_co' while one taken in Cook County, Illinois might read 'cook_co_ill', or for King County, Washington State, 'king_co_wst'. Washington, DC is usually 'wdc', New York and New Jersey are similar to n_y, n_j or ny_, nj_. "nlg" or "nolog" indicate location information is unknown.

'29feb87' is the date the photo or image was taken, if known, some dates may show as "ndg" [no date given] or be a season followed only by a year identifier.

'c1 bw' is code to differentiate a cropped or color modified file from the original. It is usually separated from the rest of the file name by a dash.

'2569' is the series number for the image, this may be a number, letter, or a combination of letters and numbers.

.jpg is the file type, and may or may not be included in the file name. Images are usually filed, sorted, or cataloged as .jpg's. Most images are also available in common formats such as .tif and psd, either in rgb or cmyk. Just ask. We're here to sell pictures.

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