Buying the rights to use photos on your site can be an expensive proposition, starting from dozens of dollars and going into the hundreds per photo. Luckily, there are a lot of websites out there cataloguing photos that can be used for free. The official term is royalty free photos, and usually there are some restrictions as to their use, such as the sensible

You are not allowed to use any of the images found herein for the purpose of spreading hate

The quality of some of these photos is amazing. Here are a couple of the most popular sites with royalty free photos. I chose them for the amount of photos and the fact that you can use them for commercial purposes:

- The Stock Exchange (100,000 photos)
- morgueFile (1,000,000)

morgue: a term used by traditional artist and publishers as a place to keep reference material

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