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Stock Photo Secrets

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Five million royalty-free images.

Gograph

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Gograph offers flexible royalty free stock photography, vectors, illustrations, graphics, and stock footage at fairly low prices and you can buy and download stock images immediately. 18 Million stock photos means they have a huge range.

British Library Photostream

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The British Library has just drawn on its huge archive to set up some fascinating new collections to explore online, organised into different subject areas. They have just added over a million images from their 17th, 18th and 19th century books to their Flickr site.

Can Stock Photo

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Over 3 million images, from 12,000 photographers. $1 downloads or a subscription of $35.95. Free weekly downloads with masses of new images.

Rex Features

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This big library has clocked up half a century in the business of providing ‘quality stills with a certain edge’ and has over 1 million images available online, with 1,000 being added every day - and a library of 15 Million photos.

DW Stock Picture Library

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An Australian picture library with over 40,000 images online and a further 80,000 on call. Strengths are Australian topics, landscapes, cities, people, national parks, flora and fauna.

RSPB Images

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The place to go for thousands of pictures of birds.

Eon Images

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Useful American site set up by picture researchers frustrated by the difficulty they experienced in finding good historical images. Low flat fee for images, no licensing fees and an interesting range of material.

Stock Xchng

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Huge gallery over 200,000 stock photos by more than 15,000 photographers which are free to use.

Fotolia

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Huge library of well over one million stock images of all kinds from just £1, with useful 'find similar' button to help browsers.

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