# Photography attribution

**Bw Stairs** — Dmitrijs Milajevs, 17 May 2018.

- Source and license record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bw_Stairs_(258283491).jpeg
- Original image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Bw_Stairs_%28258283491%29.jpeg
- License: **Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)** — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Credit: **“Bw Stairs” by Dmitrijs Milajevs, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.**
- Photograph location recorded by the source: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States.
- Downloaded for this project on 7 October 2026.

The distributed file, `public/images/bw-stairs-original.jpg`, is the unchanged original JPEG from Wikimedia Commons: 2048 × 1365 pixels, 383888 bytes. The website applies live cropping, positioning, contrast, color treatment, and electronic raster presentation as part of the composition. These presentation changes do not imply the photographer's endorsement.

SHA-256: `cb51c835e3b7abacc0b30f160b957f8ea962f8a521ae4338faa12565e59c0617`

The photograph is the same asset throughout the experience. It is not AI generated.