Buying a Print from Adam –

Hundreds of my London cityscapes and panoramas, other cityscapes, as well as Mediterranean views and landscapes decorate the houses and offices of happy collectors from all over the world. Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions that you might find useful for your purchase.

My work has been bought by private, corporate and local governmental collections in every continent over the past 30 years.

You can rest assured that I am always available to discuss your query or order at any time, via email or telephone.

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Refunds policy

Please contact me for anything else.

I read that your panoramic images and certain others are in “ultra high resolution”, what does this mean?

I’ve always liked my images to be very sharp and richly detailed. From my early days of photography, I used a medium format Hasselblad film camera, the same basic camera used for the first Apollo moon missions by NASA. The image quality of the 6 x 6cm negatives, was jaw-droppingly rich and luscious, and this became the standard I have always aspired to.

Although for several years I also used a Hasselblad digital camera, now I use Nikon mirrorless cameras, which are more portable, and I believe give the best image quality to cost ratio possible. I can also use my super sharp 300mm and 500mm lenses for distant cityscape views and panoramas, optics which are just not available for medium format cameras. The recent range of lenses available for the mirrorless Nikon mount is superlative.

My panoramas are shot by blending together up to 20 separate images, often of very long exposure times, taken in sequence from left to right, thereby increasing incrementally the effective resolution of the camera sensor. The resulting file size, resolution and image detail is breathtaking. I also sometimes take multiple shots of the same view and then “average out” the naturally occurring, and random, noise of the sensor to make an image of exceptional clarity. Both of these techniques are my usual method of working; of course this means always using a sturdy tripod. I also use for my panoramas architectural tilt shift lenses, which especially when used in stitched panoramic images help limit geometrical distortions and reduce the need to crop out the foreground of the resulting cityscapes. 

When I say “ultra high resolution” you can be assured that you will be left stunned by the rich tones and breathtaking definition of my panoramic images, which can be printed to several metres across and which will still retain all of their minute details and with no, or minimal, graininess.

What is an acrylic glass print?

Acrylic glass face mounted prints are prints that are mounted onto a 3mm panel of aluminium dibond, with a layer of acrylic glass on top, between 2-6mm thick. They can be presented with or without a frame. These offer the ultimate in sharp detail, clarity, and rich, luminous tones. Acrylic glass prints work especially well with my ultra high resolution cityscape views, bringing out the most minute detail in the architecture and buildings. Their modern aspect – either framed or frameless – works also wonderfully with landscapes and Meditarranean views.

However traditional archival giclée prints with a mount, wooden frame and glass have a real timeless beauty and look absolutely fantastic, but there is a limit on the size because of the glass. Whereas acrylic glass prints can be made very large – up to 500cm wide on a single panel!

Frameless acrylic glass prints have a 6mm acrylic layer on top. If you order with a frame it will be 2mm. See my framing page for more information.

Should I buy a framed or an unframed print?

If you have a trusted framer, and if the image you would like to order is not large, then it might be logical to order an unframed print.

Also, if you live outside of Europe, then an unframed print is most likely a better idea. I can send you it rolled up in a hard carboard tube, and you will save on the high cost, and risk of damage, of shipping a framed print.

But for most people, I would recommend a framed print, as these are ready to hang on your wall, and are the most economical option.

I am based between the UK and Italy, so orders are done from either place. Shipping therefore to anywhere in GB or the EU is the same cost, and importantly without any import taxes or customs complications.

Shipping costs and delivery to your door ranges between £30-50 for small or standard size prints to £100-120 for larger format prints (prices as of 2025 but might be subject to change).

If you are not in UK or EU, I have had images printed and framed in my favoured way of acrylic glass printed in labs in the US and in Australia for clients there, so I should be able to find a lab near to you – this means you can save on these international shipping and import taxes, as well as saving a lot of time, as the print will be produced locally. Contact me for details. Prices of the prints might also vary depending on their charges.

Please note that I do not make any extra money on selling framed prints as opposed to unframed; my profit margin is based on the size of image and is irrespective of whether or not it is framed. You only pay the difference that it costs me to have it framed. This is why I recommend to order prints framed.

OK, I want to order a print with a frame. Which is the nicest? And in what sizes are they? 

I use two frame styles for my acrylic face mount prints: Basel and Hamburg. The Basel has a “shadow” gap of 9mm between the edge of the picture and the frame. The Hamburg does not. These both come in two sizes: Basel has 15mm and 31mm profile (front facing) width. The Hamburg has 20mm or 40mm profile width. See the framing page for more detailed information and wood/colour options.

Standard format acrylic glass prints of up to and including 100cm long side are framed with the smaller profile width frames. Likewise for panoramic prints up to and including 150cm.

Larger standard format prints over 100cm are framed with the larger frame profile, as are panoramic format prints over 150cm width. The prices on the website reflect this. You can of course order a smaller print with a wider profile frame, it’ll just cost a bit more. Just let me know just before or even just after hitting “buy” button.

More recently, I have used upon special request an aluminium square profile 30 x 30mm frame, with a shadow gap. This is available in either brushed black or natural grey. This frame is very sleek and very contemporary, and exudes a really deluxe look.

It does however come at an extra cost, adding approximately 10% to the cost of the final framed print, depending on size. Please contact me for more details.

How long will it take to get my print?

Normally just a matter of a few days.

If you order an unframed print, I can normally send it out to you within 3-4 days. If you live in London, you can pick it up – or I can deliver it to you – even more quickly.

Acrylic glass prints take normally about 10-12 working days to produce in the lab so delivery time is approximately 2-3 weeks. Framed giclée prints will take longer; it depends what size you order and how busy the framer is.

Please note I do not ship framed giclée prints, these are exclusively for local delivery in London. It is possible to have them shipped, but because of the glass it must be done by a specialist art shipping company which will add singificantly to the cost, please enquire for more information.

I’d like a print of say 70 x 105cm, so in between the sizes and price options on the website. Do I have to go up one size and pay for a larger print size than I am ordering?

This depends on the lab printing and mounting production costs. 

In many cases the cost will be on a linear sliding scale, so in between, but sometimes the lab costs jump as you go larger than a specific size based on their materials cost.

Please contact me in this case for a quote for your specific desired size of print.

Is it safe to buy from this website?

This website uses Woo Commerce, and industry leading e-commerce solution. The payment comes via Stripe, which uses industry standard encryption. I cannot see your transaction details, nor do I see any of your other details, aside from the billing and shipping address that you choose to input.

I only store the email addresses of people who chose to sign up to my mailing list.

Let me assure you that hundreds of people have bought prints from me over 30 years, and dozens have also through this website. No-one has ever had a cause for complaint.

My reputation is worth far more than I could ever gain by not sending you a print, however large you order it!

Because my costs keep on rising and profit margins are surprisingly thin, I have recently had to add on an extra charge for credit card payments of 2%, which (almost) covers my costs of accepting credit cards payments on this site. Debit card or bank draft payments come at no extra charge. 

In what limited editions are your works?

This is a huge subject that would fill a volume! Some photographers think that you should not sell more than editions of 10 or 20 prints in total. I’ve always thought this is an artificially strangulating restriction, after all the whole point of photography is that it is a reproduceable medium. The idea of limited edition only came into being when art galleries began to take an interest in photography in the 1980s, as a way to raise the prices. All of the great masters before this time, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, never had “editions” but they printed on demand. Some classic images – such as Adams’ “Moonrise, Hernandez” – were printed over 1,500 times. Each of these are still highly sought after in galleries and at auctions today, not being in limited editions did nothing at all to their value or desirability.  The world’s best selling photographer of recent times, Australian/American Peter Lik, sells his prints in editions of 1,000; this certainly doesn’t seem to affect his sales, despite the (doubtless very jealous) naysayers.

I have therefore decided a happy medium and have set an edition number of 100 for my images. This enables me to keep the prices reasonable. This means 100 prints in total for the image, across all of the sizes, not just for each size.

My background in art history and also having worked with an old master gallery specialising in 17th century prints, means I know as much of this subject as anyone. Some of this I wrote about in an article for a photography magazine – click to enlarge. (I’ll post the other pages once I find the magazine!)

If I buy a print, will it go up in price?

I do not sell investments. I sell images which will bring pleasure, colour and light to your homes or office. I sell dreams. Art should never be seen as a financial investment, although in some (albeit vanishingly few) cases it can be. Please always think that you are buying my artistic vision, a story, a crystallised illusion of a scene, a time slice of a place. 

Buying from an artist furthermore puts you in direct contact with me, the creative person behind the image, and means you are supporting my work and craft. 

I believe you cannot put a price on the pleasure that an artwork can give you. As an investment in joy and happiness, I would like to think that buying an image of mine will pay you back many, many times over.

Are your works signed, and why are they signed with a logo on the images on this website?

If you order a print from me, it’ll be signed. If it’s an unframed print, I will sign (and number and title and date) it in the margin beneath the printed area. If it’s an acrylic glass print, there will be a faint embedded signature in the lower corner, right or left, which you’ll see if you look closely. See image at right.

All of the images I post on social media have my name and © symbol embedded on them, as many of my images on this website will have too. This is because I have had so many images stolen, and even used commercially by unscrupulous people. I have found them printed as framed fine art prints in 2 different Italian restaurants in central London, I have found them printed on T shirts on sale in several places in the Aeolian Islands, I have found them being sold printed onto objects such as magnets for fridges, and I have found them used on the websites of many, hotels and tourist operators in Sicily, and also on Mediterranean yacht charter companies. They used my images without asking my permission, let alone paying me. This, as I am sure you’ll agree, is unacceptable, but it is a sad reality of today’s world of digital imagery and social media.

So I include my signature on everyone to try to discourage this. On your acrylic glass artwork, there will be my signature, but it’ll be faint and only about 3cm wide, and of course without the © symbol.

Will the colours of my print be the same as the colours on the website?

Mostly, yes. There is no need to worry.

However this is a thorny subject, because it’s not the colours on my website that you are looking at now, but the colours from images on my website that your monitor interprets. I use a leading brand calibrated monitor to edit my photographs, and I know the image file I send to the lab – with embedded ICC profiles based on what type of print you choose – will turn out identically to what I see on my screen. But yours might be set up slightly differently, with tonal or luminance variations. I use Apple computers and monitors, and the Apple ecosystem of colours is as reliable and consistent as any. So even if you are looking at an image on an iPhone, it’ll be represented faithfully, and similar to what you will receive. 

Wherever possible, I check the prints before sending them out. But aside from unframed giclée prints, it might not always be possible with acrylic mount prints for practical reasons, especially if you live far away from me. But rest assured I will re-print or refund the cost of any image that you might order which you think looks noticeably different from what you see on this website.

Returns and refunds policy

If your picture arrives with any damage, it will be immediately replaced. But alas I cannot accept any returnss nor issue any refunds if you change your mind, production and shipping costs are very high and it would be unfeasible to accept to offer any refund if you change your mind!