5 websites for stock photos for your blog

A picture is worth a thousand words. This is so true, isn’t it? No matter how well we write on our blog, the impact it creates gets magnified the moment we embed some meaningful photographs into the article. Where do these bloggers get such great quality photographs from?

There are several websites that cater to the stock photos segment. Not just that, there are several photo sharing services available, which you can tap into, to get some great photographs. A small list of sites which I personally use for getting some great images are mentioned below.

Flickr

Flickr is at top of my list. You can search not only based on keywords, but based on license as well. The number of photographs available on just about any topic/keyword you can think off, is simply unbelievable. All thanks to the large user base on the website.

iStockPhoto

iStockphoto provides photographs without charging a subscription fee. Pricing is per image, depending on the size of photograph that you are looking for. You can get a XSmall size photographs for as low as $1. Isn’t that cool!

stock.xchng

stock.xchng has over 250,000 stock photographs from over 25,000 photographers.

Corbis

Corbis has a wonderful collection of high-quality photographs. You would need to pay a small fee for many of the photographs, but once again, just like Flickr, you can search based on license type.

HDRwalls

HDRwalls a website that has wallpapers for your PC and for your mobile devices. Nothing stops you from using it for your blog posts! You will find an amazing collection of photographs on this website. A review of HDRwalls was recently carried out at DownloadSquad. There are only about 450+ photographs to choose from, but do expect the database to increase in the coming days, as this is a user run community.

There are several other stock photo websites. What I’ve listed above, are the ones that I typically use. Besides the ones listed here, which ones do you use?