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If you use Flickr as your main source of stock photography, maybe you should think again.

Sure it is great to have such a large source of free stock to use in your blog, but every once in a while the user of that photo will change the license or worse, delete it. When it gets deleted you get the dreaded “photo unavailable” image. That is if you hotlink, and admit it, most of you do.

If you download the image and use it from one of your own servers then you don’t have to worry about the ugly unavailable image, but you still have to worry about license changes.

This is one of the reasons that I have taken to using Crestock. I have mentioned Crestock in the past, and especially like the free image of the day, which I have started to collect to get my personal stock photo database going. This is the group of images that I go to first when trying to find something worth while to add to the post. Sometimes it is just a pretty face :)

Pretty Face
Pretty Face

So keep this in mind next time that you go looking for a picture for you site, maybe what you pay for is what you get, and free doesn’t always get a lot.

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