free & cheap stock photography: 13 free or cheap stock photography sites for your blog

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Photos on your blog can add visual appeal, but the cost of stock photography can add up fast. Here are 13 resources for free or cheap stock photography for any blogger’s budget. http://bit.ly/13stockphotosites One of the best ways to spice up any blog is with good photography. But if you’re posting, once, twice or three times a week, those blog photos can get expensive. If you’re looking for good, affordable, legal stock photography for your blog, you do have some options. I recently needed an image for a blog post on creating the perfect blog post (I know: pretty meta, right?) and fell down a rabbit hole, looking for a cheap photo for the post. Here’s what I found from doing some research on a dozen or so different stock photography sites that have a blogger’s budget in mind. In trying to give you a fair comparison, I had to balance the following: Some sites offer individual downloads, some offer subscriptions, and some offer both. I noted this as best I could below. Some offer bulk pricing. I used a budget of $100 to come up with a cost per credit. The smallest web-friendly versions differed from site to site. The quality and desirability of the photos weren’t always equal. My idea of what makes for an attractive photo will differ from yours. But mine is correct. Because of all this, although I wasn’t comparing apples to oranges, I was comparing Macintoshes to Granny Smiths. http://bit.ly/13stockphotosites

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FREE & CHEAP STOCK PHOTOS13 Free or Cheap Stock Photography Sites for Your Blog

Pond5 – The World’s Stock Media Marketplace

http://www.pond5.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

YAY Images – Great Images at Budget Prices

http://yaymicro.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

iStockphoto – Royalty Free Stock Photography

http://www.istockphoto.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Dreamstime – Stock Photos and Royalty Free Images

http://www.dreamstime.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

123RF – Royalty Free Stock Photos

http://www.123rf.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Bigstock – Images for Everyone.

https://www.bigstockphoto.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Fotolia – Royalty Free Images, Photos, Vectors and Videos

http://us.fotolia.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Media Bakery – Millions of Curated Stock Photos

http://www.mediabakery.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Shutterstock – Stock Photos, Illustrations, Vectors & Videos

http://www.shutterstock.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Depositphotos – Stock Photos, Illustrations and Vector Art

http://depositphotos.com/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Stock.xchng – The Leading FREE Stock Photo Site

http://www.sxc.hu/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Flickr / Creative Commons Attribution License

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/

Sample Cost: $1.95*

Your SmartPhone

Results are infinite, the cost is free (after cost of phone/tablet), and you can run your picture through an editor like Instragram and get fantastic results.

Thanks! Questions?Rich Brooks

TheMarketingAgents.com

207.619.0099

@therichbrooks

* For more information on sample costs, bulk discounts and subscriptions, be sureto check out:

http://bit.ly/13stockphotosites

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