Meridian Photographers

Find a photographer

A free listing in our directory, so people near you can find you: turning it on, what it shows, where enquiries go, and taking it down.

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On this page
  1. Turning your listing on
  2. Choosing the cover from your galleries
  3. Your postcode and distances
  4. How people search
  5. What people see
  6. Where enquiries go
  7. Taking it down
  8. If your listing is not showing

Find a photographer is a directory on the Meridian Photographers website, in the menu at the top. People search it by town, suburb, postcode or state, choose the kind of photography they want and how far they will go, and see the nearest photographers first. Only photographers who switch a listing on appear in it.

A listing is free on Free, Sites and Studio. It is off until you turn it on, and having one changes nothing else about your plan.

Turning your listing on

  1. Sign in to your account on the Meridian Photographers website.
  2. Under Find a photographer, press Your listing.
  3. Tick Show my listing in Find a photographer.
  4. Fill in Your name or business name, the Town or suburb you are based in and your State. A Postcode is optional, but it is how people searching nearby see how far away you are (see below).
  5. Choose How far you travel, and tick at least one of the Kinds of photography.
  6. Add A short introduction (up to 600 characters) and a Cover photograph of your own if you like: a JPEG, PNG or WebP under 12 MB, at least 400 pixels wide. We resize it and remove its hidden details, including any GPS location. Describe it in the box below for people who cannot see it.
  7. Press Save listing. You see Saved. Your listing is in Find a photographer.

The box at the top of the page says whether your listing is shown. Once it is, See it as visitors do opens it.

Choosing the cover from your galleries

Instead of uploading a cover, you can use one of your own gallery photographs.

  1. Save your listing once, with any changes you have made.
  2. Under Cover photograph, press Choose from my galleries.
  3. Your gallery photographs are shown, newest gallery first, a page at a time. Type part of a gallery's name in Gallery name and press Search to find one.
  4. Press the photograph you want. You go back to your listing, with a message saying which gallery it came from.

We make a copy for your listing in the same way as an upload: resized, with its hidden details removed, including any GPS location. Check that the description of the photograph still fits it. Only your own galleries are shown, and nobody else can see this page.

Your listing is public, so choose a photograph you are happy for anyone to see, and one your client is happy to have shown.

The cover is a copy. If you later delete the photograph from its gallery, your cover stays as it is, and your listing page tells you the original has gone. To change it, choose or upload another, or tick Remove this photograph.

If you have no gallery photographs yet (on Sites you may have no galleries at all), the page says so and you upload a cover instead.

Your postcode and distances

When you give a postcode, distances to you are measured from the middle of your postcode area. Without one, they are measured from the middle of your town or suburb. Your street address is never asked for, stored or shown, so nobody can work out where you live or work from your listing.

The postcode has to be a real Australian postcode in the state you chose. If it is not on our list, you see We cannot find postcode … on our list of Australian postcodes. Check it, or leave it empty. A few postcodes cross a state line (2620 is in the ACT and New South Wales, for example), and either state is accepted for those.

If we cannot place your town and you have not given a postcode, you are still listed. You show for searches in your state and for your town by name, just without a distance. Adding your postcode fixes that.

  • By postcode, such as 2095: photographers nearest the middle of that postcode come first.
  • By town or suburb, such as Bondi Beach or Manly, with the state after it if the name is in more than one state (Paddington QLD). If a name is in several states, the page offers the others.
  • By state, such as Queensland or NSW: everyone listed in that state.

Distance limits the results to photographers within 10, 25, 50, 100 or 250 km. It starts at Any distance, which shows everyone, nearest first. A photographer further away is still shown if they travel as far as the place searched, marked Travels to you. If nobody is within the distance chosen, the page says how far away the nearest photographer is.

If someone types a postcode that is not on our list, they see photographers across the state that postcode belongs to, and the page says so.

Distances are worked out on our own server from GeoNames' Australian town, suburb and postcode data, which is credited at the foot of the directory and on the Photo credits page. No map service or outside site is asked. A few points are corrected by us, because GeoNames places them on the mainland: the postcodes of Christmas Island (6798), the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (6799), Norfolk Island (2899) and Macquarie Island (7151) are placed on the islands themselves.

What people see

Your listing has a page of its own, which can also appear in Google. It shows:

  • your name, your town and state, and how far you travel
  • the kinds of photography you ticked
  • your introduction and cover photograph
  • an Enquire button, and Visit their website on Sites and Studio
  • your email address and phone number, only if you tick Show the email address and phone number below and fill them in

Your account's email address is never shown.

In search results, people see roughly how far away you are, and Travels to you when they are within the distance you travel.

Where enquiries go

  • On Sites and Studio, Enquire opens the enquiry form on your own website, so it arrives the way any enquiry from your site does.
  • On Free, your listing has a short enquiry form of its own. Each enquiry is emailed to your account's email address, and pressing reply answers the person who sent it. We do not keep a copy, so answer from your email.

If you have more than one site, choose Which of your sites the listing links to.

Taking it down

  • Untick Show my listing in Find a photographer and press Save listing, or press Take it down now. It comes down at once.
  • Delete my listing and photograph removes it completely.

Closing your account removes your listing too.

If your listing is not showing

The box at the top of Your listing says why. The usual reasons:

  • Your site is not live. A listing needs a live site on Free, Sites or Studio, with its plan paid up. If your site is suspended or still being set up, the listing comes back once it is live again.
  • Your email address changed. A listing shows only while it matches your account's email address. Press Save listing once more to confirm it.
  • We took it down. If we hide a listing, you see our reason on the page. Raise a ticket if you think that is a mistake.

Anyone can press Report this listing on a listing page. It comes to us as a support ticket, and we look at it.

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