The digital techniques of today add to an eventual enhancement of what has been done on paper in the past. Often the paper, one or two centuries old or even older, has faded and/or became yellowish or even dark brown. Modern digital techniques help to revive the colors of images as if they were painted just recently. In some cases, where authors only figured one lateral side of the subject, digital techniques allow to reproduce the entire bilateral animal in a short time and with great precision. It is the case in thousands of insects figured only half in ancient literature.

As this is a homepage for pure pleasure, we add photos of animals we photograph during excursion and family travels.

We use the name given by the original authors in books, mention the authors of the works we used, and we researched often but not always, the modern scientific names of the animals shown.

The authors of this homepage are professional conchologists and spend also much time on the Philippine seas, especially during one decade they owned the boat “Guphil” which was later destroyed on Leyte Island during a storm. Over 25 000 dives, by 5 divers document tens of thousands of marine animals on “poppe-images.com“. Our professional conchological homepage has about 18 million visits a year and documents over a million determinated shells: https://www.conchology.be/