Image Credits

Image Credits

Every photograph here is either in the public domain or released under a Creative Commons licence that allows commercial use. Where a licence requires attribution, it is given below with a link to the licence; where it does not, we credit anyway. Changes we made to each image are noted under its title.

Photography

Image	Credit	Licence	Source
Complex standing seam roof with hips, valleys and snow retention Cropped to a landscape band and resized.	Wikideas1	CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)	Source
Standing seam roof with an asphalt roof visible nearby Cropped and resized.	Wikideas1	CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)	Source
Metal roof mid snow-release, with retention bars Resized.	Wilfredor	CC0 (public domain dedication)	Source
Icicles at an eave Cropped and resized.	Tomwsulcer	CC0 (public domain dedication)	Source
Houses on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee Cropped to a landscape band, colour-graded and resized.	Chris Rycroft from Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	CC BY 2.0	Source
Roofer closing standing seams with an electric seamer Retouched to remove a footwear logo, an equipment label and a cigarette; colour-graded and resized.	Rider di	CC BY-SA 4.0	Source
Standing seam on the Remick farmhouse, Tamworth NH Cropped to remove signage on the adjacent building; house number retouched out; colour-graded and resized.	Jllm06	CC BY-SA 4.0	Source
Standing seam on a hip-roofed single-storey house Colour-graded and resized.	Wikideas1	CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)	Source
Aerial view of a standing seam roof with intersecting gables Colour-graded and resized.	Wikideas1	CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)	Source
Ice dam and icicles on a slate roof Colour-graded and resized.	Dmcroof	CC BY-SA 3.0	Source
Heat cable on an asphalt shingle eave Colour-graded and resized.	Tony Webster	CC BY 2.0	Source
Barn with a red metal roof, Marlborough NH Converted to JPEG and colour-graded.	MarkBuckawicki	CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)	Source

These are not photographs of our own work, and we do not present them as such. They are licensed images chosen because they show the things this site argues about — panel runs and valleys, snow releasing in sheets, retention bars, ice at an eave. Where a caption describes what is happening in a picture, it describes that picture.

Illustrations

The fifty-year timeline graphic and the site mark are original work produced for this site and are not derived from any third-party image.

Data

Every cost figure, service life and pitch factor is attributed on the cost page, with a note on what each figure covers and what our fifty-year comparison deliberately leaves out.

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