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Hi,

Sorry for confusion; we ask for emails because we send you a copy to that email address. But you are correct; in the near future there will be a box that lets people either download immediately or have it sent to email instead.

All images are currently free and the plan is for it to remain so. Regarding the cart, that's a good point: its a hint on the additional features we have planned for the future, some of which may require a small payment.

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Why would you send an email with the photo?

At best that's unnecessary and at worst that's shady.

By failing to deny the suspicions about payments and emails, you've only served to confirm them.

Thanks for the feedback. The reason the email box is there is we built this on Wordpress using Easy digital download and the plugin to offer the free download is built with the email box. We hear you that it is more inconvenient and will work on putting a pop up box that offers the choice for a free instant download or send to email.

The site is very much a work in progress...in the meantime if you don't feel comfortable putting your email in, perhaps you can wait for us to fix this and come back at a later date. thanks again!

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