What Our Images Show, and Who Owns Them

A fence is a visual purchase, and the pictures on this site do most of the explaining. Some of them are photographs of fences we built. Some are computer renderings of fences we can build. A few came from elsewhere entirely. This page tells you which is which, what each kind of image can honestly promise you, and what you may do with one if you want to use it yourself.

Photographs of Our Own Work

Most photographs on this site are ours. They were taken on job sites across Greater Los Angeles and the Bay Area, on fences our own crews installed, usually within days of the last panel going in. No photograph of another company’s work appears anywhere on this site as though it were ours.

Two things about them are worth saying plainly. Yards are photographed as we found them, so grades, existing landscaping and neighboring structures change from shot to shot, and none of that is a statement about what your property will look like. And a fence photographed in its first week looks like a fence in its first week. Vinyl weathers, gates settle, planting fills in. You are seeing the installation, not a forecast of year five.

We do not publish street addresses, house numbers or customer names alongside project photography. Homeowners who let us photograph their fence agreed to a picture of a fence, not to an entry in a public record of where they live.

Computer-Rendered Images

A large part of our product library is shown through computer-rendered images rather than photographs, and there is a practical reason for it. A single vinyl style ships in several colors, several heights and several picket configurations. Photographing every combination on a real property would take years and would still leave gaps. A rendering shows the combination itself, cleanly and consistently, without a neighbor’s roofline or an overcast afternoon getting in the way.

What a rendering is reliable for: the style, the profile, the proportion of rail to picket, the height, the configuration, and which color goes with which style. Those are the specifications we build to, and the rendering is generated from them.

What a rendering is not: a photograph of the panel that will come off the truck. Texture, gloss and shadow in a rendering are generated rather than captured, and they are an approximation of a real surface.

Renderings are used the same way in our aluminum gate and wall topper libraries. Where a page shows both kinds of image, the rule is easy to apply: anything set against a plain or neutral background is a rendering, and anything standing in a real yard is a photograph of a completed job.

Colors and Finishes on Your Screen

Color is where screens fail hardest. The same vinyl color reads warmer or cooler depending on your monitor, your phone’s display mode, your browser, the light in the room and the brightness you happen to be running. Our renderings and photographs are prepared as accurately as we can make them, and they still cannot be treated as a color match.

This matters most on the woodgrain and two-tone colors, where the difference between two options is a matter of undertone rather than of hue. If color is driving your decision, ask us for a physical sample before you order and we will get one to you. A sample held against your house in your own daylight settles in ten seconds what no screen can settle at all.

Images We Did Not Make

Not everything here is ours, and we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise.

• Photographs of the cities and neighborhoods we serve. Our service area pages carry views of the places themselves: streets, hillsides, waterfronts, civic landmarks. These are not our installations and are not presented as such. They are there to tell you where you are, and they came from third-party sources.
• Illustrations and diagrams. A number of explanatory illustrations across the site came from third-party sources in the same way.

We claim no ownership of either group, and nothing on this page gives you any right to use them. Whoever holds the rights to those images holds them still, and none of what follows about permission applies to them. If one of them is yours, the section below is for you.

Separately, some product imagery on our aluminum pages was supplied by the manufacturer of the aluminum systems we install. Those images remain that manufacturer’s property. Requests to use them belong with the manufacturer rather than with us, and we will point you in the right direction if you ask.

Using Our Images

The photographs and renderings we made are our property and are protected by copyright whether or not a notice sits next to them. Copying them onto another fence company’s website, into a marketplace listing, into a contractor directory profile or into an advertisement is the specific thing this page exists to prevent, and it is the specific thing we act on when we find it.

You do not need permission to link to a page on this site, to share a page on social media in the ordinary way that pulls a preview image with it, or to save an image for your own private reference while you plan a project.

You do need permission for anything else: commercial use of any kind, republication in print or online, inclusion in a portfolio that is not ours, and any use in which the image is altered or in which the fence is presented as somebody else’s work.

Permission costs nothing in most editorial cases and we grant it more often than we refuse it. The form at the bottom of this page is how to ask.

If You Believe We Used Your Image

If an image on this site is yours and you did not license it to us, tell us and we will deal with it. You do not need a lawyer to start that conversation. Send us:

• the address of the page on our site where the image appears
• enough of a description that we can tell which image you mean
• where the original lives, or some other way of showing the work is yours
• how you would like it resolved, whether that is credit and a link, or removal

Write to quotes@provinylfencing.com with “Image claim” in the subject line, or call (844) 744-0707. We aim to reply within five business days. Where the claim looks straightforward we normally take the image down first and sort out the details afterwards, rather than the other way around.

Request Permission to Use Our Images

Use the form below. Tell us which images you want and where they are going to appear, and be as specific as you can, because a vague request takes longer to answer than a precise one. One thing we cannot help with: the city photographs and the illustrations described above are not ours to give away, so requests for those have to go to whoever owns them.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, reach us at:

Email: quotes@provinylfencing.com
Phone: (844) 744-0707
Mail: Vinyl Fence LA, Inc, 2070 Floyd Street, Burbank, CA 91504