Image credits

A good photo can help you picture a beach, a temple or a pier before you get there. As of September 2026, Review Nha Trang uses 17 photos, all from Wikimedia Commons under open licenses. This page explains where they come from, what each license allows, how the images are processed and credited, and how to get in touch if you would like to reuse a photo, send us one of yours or have one removed.

The full credits table is at the bottom of the page.

Where our photos come from

We don't yet have our own shots of every place we write about, so for now we use photos from Wikimedia Commons, the media library run by the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia. Every file there has a description page listing the photographer, the date and the license.

Photos on Commons are sorted into categories by location, which helps us match an image to the exact place an article describes, such as Hon Chong or the Po Nagar towers. Each file's description page is also where you can check the license and download the original when you need it.

The site uses four kinds of license: CC BY, CC BY-SA, public domain and CC0. Photos marked NC (non-commercial) or ND (no derivatives) are not part of the selection. Every image is cropped and compressed before it goes online, so using an ND photo would not respect the conditions the photographer set.

The licenses in plain English

What follows is a quick summary, not legal advice. The full text of each license is on the Creative Commons licenses page.

CC BY (Attribution)

You can use, share and adapt the image, including commercially, as long as you give credit: the author's name, the license name with a link, a link to the source, and a note if you changed anything. On this site, CC BY photos use versions 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0.

All five photos in the homepage carousel are in this group, including the bay panorama by Rayrayokocha (CC BY 4.0). The Hon Mun photo by Nguyen Hung Vu (CC BY 2.0) and the shot of wooden tour boats by The Erica Chang (CC BY 3.0) are CC BY as well.

CC BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike)

Same as CC BY, with one extra condition: if you modify the image and share it, your version needs to carry the same license (or a compatible one). Our photos of the Po Nagar tower facade, Long Son Pagoda, Dam Market, Tran Phu beach and Binh Ba Island fall under this license.

That means the cropped WebP versions you see here are also CC BY-SA, in the same version as the original, with no extra conditions added.

Public domain

A photo is in the public domain when the author has given up their rights or the rights have expired. Legally, you don't have to credit anyone. We still name the photographer, out of respect for their work and to help readers trace the original. The Institute of Oceanography photo by Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên and the spiny lobster photo by Phương Huy are public domain.

CC0

CC0 is a tool that lets authors place their own work in the public domain, as far as the law allows. You can use it the same way: no credit required, no limits on purpose. The 2025 shot of Doc Let beach by Victor311 is currently the only CC0 image on the site.

How the photos are processed

Originals on Commons are often several megabytes. To keep pages light on a phone, even when the signal at the pier is patchy, every image goes through the same steps:

• Cropped to a 3:2 ratio, mostly at 1200×800 px; the three photos recently added to the homepage carousel are 1600×1067 px. The bay view from the Sky Wheel keeps a 16:9 version (1920×1080 px), plus a 960×540 copy for small screens. The crop favors the most prominent part of the frame.
• Converted to WebP. After compression, each file usually ends up somewhere between a few dozen KB and about 240 KB, depending on how much detail is in the frame.
• EXIF metadata (camera model, GPS coordinates, time taken) is removed after the image is rotated the right way up.
• A tiny blurred preview is generated to show while the real image loads.

Removing metadata keeps files small and avoids exposing where a photo was taken; the author and license are still shown on every image. Any small signature or watermark in the original stays in place. We don't add people or objects, and we don't remove anything from the frame.

Every Commons photo on the site is a cropped, WebP-converted version. You can treat this section as the modification notice for all of them, alongside the credit shown on each photo.

Where the credit appears

In the bottom-right corner of every photo there is a small credit badge with a semi-transparent background, sitting on the image itself and reading "Photo: author · license · source". The license name links to the license text, and "Wikimedia Commons" links to that exact file's page. When our image data includes a profile page for the author, their name is linked too.

The badge sits on the photo so the credit always travels with the image, whether it appears in an article, a grid of posts or the homepage carousel. If an author name and license are long, the text wraps onto a second line instead of being cut off. A caption describing the photo, where there is one, sits below the image, centered.

Names are copied exactly as they appear on the Commons description page, including handles like "Can't stop shooting film," who took the 2011 photo of Hon Chong. Commons is where the file lives and the person holding the camera is the author, so the badge names the photographer rather than a generic "Photo: Internet."

Each image's alt text describes what is in the frame and names the place, so screen reader users also know what the photo shows.

The homepage carousel

The large image at the top of the homepage is a carousel of five photos that changes every few seconds with a gentle fade. Each photo is shown in a 3:2 frame with its own credit badge in the bottom-right corner, so the credit changes along with the picture. A short caption for each photo sits just below the frame.

• Nha Trang Bay and the cable car to Hon Tre, seen from the Sky Wheel, by Rayrayokocha, June 2025.
• Tran Phu Beach from above, by cloud.shepherd (Brian Miner), January 2016.
• The Po Nagar Cham towers after the rain, by katiebordner, December 2015.
• The Hon Chong boulders, by Can't stop shooting film, 2011.
• Sunrise over Nha Trang Bay, by ChiLam Ly, 2009.

Some of these photos were taken years ago, so the scene today may look a little different, especially the cafes and buildings along the seafront. The images are there to set the mood of each place; ticket prices, opening hours and recent changes are kept up to date in the articles themselves.

The carousel pauses when you hover over it or switch to another tab, and there is a small pause button in the bottom-left corner of the frame. If your device has reduced motion turned on, the carousel stays on the first photo.

Archive photos, illustrations and AI images

Some photos show the right place but not the place as it is today. The round Dam Market building in Christophe95's photo is one example: the market has closed, so the caption and alt text both mark it as an archive photo. Trading has moved to the new Dam Market next door.

Some photos only illustrate a news item. Violetbonmua's shot of Binh Ba Island runs next to the news that the island has stopped receiving tourists, and is there for context only.

The site does not currently use any AI-generated images. If we ever do, they will be labeled "AI illustration" in the caption and used only for general ideas, like a seafood spread or the sea at dawn, never in place of a photo of a specific place. We haven't found a suitably licensed photo of the Diep Son sandbar yet, so it does not have its own image for now.

If you would like to reuse a photo

For the best quality, we suggest downloading the original file rather than our WebP version, which has been cropped and compressed. Click "Wikimedia Commons" in the credit badge at the bottom-right corner of the photo, or use the Source column in the table below, to open the original file page.

Each Commons file page offers several resolutions and a ready-made attribution you can copy. Commons also has a short, easy-to-follow guide to reusing content. When you credit the image, please name the original photographer rather than Review Nha Trang, since we didn't take the picture.

If you would rather use our cropped version, you are welcome to, following the original license: credit the author, license and source, and note that the image was cropped. For CC BY-SA photos, the copy you share keeps the CC BY-SA license.

These licenses cover the photos only. Our text, logo and other graphics are not included. If you quote a passage from an article, we would appreciate it if you named the source and linked back to it.

Credit corrections and removal requests

If you took one of the photos on this site and the credit is incorrect or incomplete, or you would like it removed, you can write to us at [email protected]. Helpful details to include:

• The page on Review Nha Trang where the photo appears, or its name in the table below.
• A link to the original file and something showing you are the author or rights holder, such as the Commons account that uploaded it.
• What you would like: a corrected name, a corrected license, a link to your profile, or removal.

We take time to read and check the details before replying. Reports related to safety and image rights are reviewed first. While we check, the photo may be taken down temporarily, and we will let you know once the change is made.

Creative Commons licenses can't be revoked for copies already released. Even so, if a photographer no longer wants their work on our site, we will take it down and find another image to replace it.

Send us your Nha Trang photos

We would love to add more recent photos, taken in the right season and from the angle a visitor actually sees. If you have just come back from Nha Trang with a few pictures you like, whether taken on a camera or a phone, you are welcome to send them by email.

To use a photo, we need it to be your own work and to have your permission to publish it under CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC0, or under terms we agree on by email, including cropping and compressing. If you can, let us know when and where it was taken. For photos where people's faces are clearly visible, please confirm they are happy to appear.

If you have many photos, a link to a shared folder makes them easier for us to browse. Photos we use will carry your name (or the handle you prefer) in the credit badge at the bottom-right corner of the photo and in the credits table, with a link to your profile if you send one. Depending on what the articles need, some photos may be used a little later.

Right now we would especially like photos of the beaches in the rainy season, breakfast spots, and the Cau Da pier on a busy morning.

A few article covers

The Erica Chang's photo of wooden tour boats lined up on the sand is the cover of Nha Trang island hopping. Phương Huy's photo of Long Son Pagoda opens things to do in Nha Trang, which also features Erwin Verbruggen's Po Nagar tower facade and P. Hughes's shot of the cable car crossing the sea.

Phương Huy's spiny lobster leads what to eat in Nha Trang, and Rayrayokocha's bay view from the Sky Wheel, besides opening the homepage carousel, also appears in the Nha Trang travel guide.

Full credits table

The table below is built from the site's image data and lists each image, its author, license and a link to the original file. For how we choose sources and write articles, see the Editorial policy. To learn who we are, read the About page, and you can send feedback through Contact.

Thank you to everyone who has photographed Nha Trang and shared their work under an open license. Because of them, you can see a morning on Tran Phu beach or late light on the Po Nagar towers before you even set off.