What belongs here
Your own genuine camera or phone captures. Conventional cropping, rotation, exposure, white balance and colour correction are allowed. Explain material conventional edits and retain the original capture or nearest available source file.
Ordinary built-in phone processing—demosaicing, lens correction, standard noise reduction, automatic exposure, white balance, HDR and multi-frame capture processing—is eligible when it represents the actual captured scene. It must not add, remove, replace or reconstruct animals, objects or scene detail. A phone feature marketed as “AI” is judged by what it does; ordinary capture processing does not disqualify a genuine phone photograph.
Zero tolerance for synthetic wildlife
No AI-generated or AI-altered wildlife images or video. This includes generative fill or expansion, object replacement or removal, synthetic scenes, face or animal swaps, AI animation, and AI reconstruction or enhancement that invents detail. Conventional object removal, compositing and wildlife staging are also ineligible under this draft policy. If a phone’s zoom, enhancement or editing mode invents details, disable it or submit an eligible original instead.
A disclosure does not make a prohibited edit eligible. JJ’s own promotional and editorial wildlife photographs must have clear provenance, appropriate rights, visible credit and editing/context disclosures. We do not use generated imagery.
Ownership, rights and context
Every contributor must declare that they made the capture, hold the necessary publishing rights, comply with the editing policy and have protected sensitive locations. JJ displays photographs with contributor credit; contributors retain copyright. Submitting grants JJ permission to store the contribution, review its source, and display the approved version to the selected audience.
Disclose captive settings, zoos, rehabilitation facilities, managed enclosures and uncertainty about the setting. No baiting, feeding, calling, chasing, handling or disturbing wildlife to obtain a photograph. Never represent a captive animal as a wild encounter.
Protect the place
Share only broad destinations. Do not publish GPS coordinates, nest or den locations, map pins, precise routes to sensitive wildlife, live sightings or tracking predictions. Check visible landmarks, signs and text within your photograph too. JJ removes metadata from display copies; moderators also review the image and accompanying text. Automated text checks cannot catch every disclosure.
Review, source files and appeals
Photos and comments enter a moderation queue. Administrators may request original source evidence, approve, reject or hide contributions and record reasons. We never claim that automatic AI detection or a human review guarantees authenticity. Keep your camera originals and editing history.
Member display copies are reduced to at most 1,600 pixels on the longest edge and carry a photographer watermark. Right-click and drag controls discourage casual copying. The watermark is a platform display annotation, not an alteration of the original capture. Read how photo protection works.
Source uploads and additional evidence are restricted to the contributor and administrators. Source files can contain location or device metadata, so administrators must treat them as confidential and must never republish them. This draft accepts JPEG and PNG photographs; RAW, HEIC and video submissions require a later workflow.
Use “Report a concern” on a photograph or comment to flag manipulation, rights issues, sensitive locations or harassment. Reports and reporter identities are private to administrators. A contributor can provide requested source evidence or appeal a decision from their photograph page. Another administrator must review their own submissions. Decisions and source downloads are audited.
Withdrawing a photograph removes it from publication immediately. The uploaded source, private evidence and review history remain stored for review and appeals; permanent deletion and a timed retention policy are not implemented in this local draft. Do not submit evidence you cannot authorise JJ to retain for that purpose.
A useful, welcoming community
Discuss the photograph with care. Offer critique when invited: be specific, explain the observation and suggest a practical experiment. No harassment, personal attacks or invented expertise. Member feedback is not automatically expert feedback. Follow and save tools organise relationships and learning; there are no fabricated members or engagement figures.
Blocking hides each other’s community content and prevents new interactions while signed in. Public content remains accessible when signed out. Blocking does not revoke an existing trip role; organisers control those memberships separately.
Trips, guides and permits
Posting does not require attending a JJ trip. A trip connection is optional. Participant-only photographs require an accepted membership; a forwarded read-only briefing link grants no membership or additional access. Co-host authority is explicitly delegated per permission.
JJ does not book, resell or collect payment for safari permits. It can record externally arranged safaris and help a group prepare. Joining an event does not guarantee an official permit. A photography mentor or trip leader is not the park-assigned guide. Confirmed safari seats are not freely transferable; follow the issuing authority’s current rules.
Attendance records support private memories and a basic wildlife passport. Uploads, likes, sightings and rare species earn no redeemable points. Points do not establish trust or expertise. Organiser updates are opt-in, and consent can be withdrawn in My Trips. This draft records preferences; it does not send marketing messages.