Image Use

Updated October 2026

Nearly everything on Notes from the Road, the photographs, field sketches, watercolors, maps and writing, is my own work, made on the road over more than twenty-five years. Unless a credit says otherwise, it is © Erik Gauger, all rights reserved.

You’re welcome to

• Link to any page on the site.
• Share a page on social media, using the preview image the site provides.
• Quote a short passage of my writing, with credit and a link back to the page.

Please ask first

• Before reproducing any photograph, sketch, map or illustration, in print or online, including on websites, social media accounts, in books, articles, presentations and classrooms.
• Before any commercial use, including advertising, products and merchandise.
• Before cropping, editing, tracing or otherwise adapting an image.
• Before using any image or text from the site to train or build an AI model.

Licensing and prints

Most images on the site can be licensed. Contact me with the image you’d like to use, how you plan to use it and where it will appear. Prints of many maps and illustrations are available in the Notes from the Road shop.

Images by others

A few photographs on the Guana Cay pages were provided by Save Guana Cay Reef and are credited to them. They are not mine to license.