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(1) mountainscapes
(2) cityscapes
(3) fields
(4) pretty girls standing in fields, and
(5) coffeshop patrons typing away on powered-off MacBooks
... does the world really need?
Especially when they all come with washed-out Instagram filters pre-applied.
The software industry and startup scene is enormously fashion-driven. A lot of people like to pretend it's the opposite though: a group of ideal meritocracies building highly needed products based on rational data-driven decisions...
Fashion based signals then inevitable degrade as they become more mainstream and are replaced by whatever hot new thing that's different enough to avoid confusion with other trends.
Even an ideal meritocracy requires abstractions for efficient communication.
I know this is grammatically correct (and I often try to use it), but something in my brain always struggles with 'an' preceding 'h' words.
In this case, 0. Without looking too hard, Getty has 39. Of course, the quality of the search engine and tag database also plays into these results.
Thats how http://librestock.com was born. enjoy :)
Another public domain collection I use: https://pixabay.com/
> Photo Sources
> Only Creative Commons images from our community of photographers and sources like Unsplash, Gratisography, Little Visuals and many more are added to our photo database. We constantly try to deliver as many high quality free stock photos as possible to the creatives who use our website.
IANAL but isn't that too vague?
From the ShutterStock license:
[YOU MAY NOT] Portray any person depicted in Visual Content (a "Model") in a way that a reasonable person would find offensive, including but not limited to depicting a Model: a) in connection with pornography, "adult videos", adult entertainment venues, escort services, dating services, or the like; b) in connection with the advertisement or promotion of tobacco products; c) in a political context, such as the promotion, advertisement or endorsement of any party, candidate, or elected official, or in connection with any political policy or viewpoint; d) as suffering from, or medicating for, a physical or mental ailment; or e) engaging in immoral or criminal activities.
Which is a large search engine for public domain images. Too bad the search sucks compared to this.
Your site does not look like it was made by a beginner. Seriously, is this what beginners can do?
I just did a side by side comparison searching for "ashtray", and your Librestock search actually finds ashtray photos from Pexels that not even Pexels search returns. So I'm quite confident that Pexels search sucks and yours does not suck.
The reason I can find stuff from pexels that they cant find is actually because I have duplicate image detection that sources the tags from multiple sources. So a different source must have tagged it as ashtray!
I've been building websites for a year. I still consider myself very much a beginner. (I worked in design before that). thanks for the compliment!
I usually used sxc.hu so far, which became FreeImages.com some time ago.
You take issue with "free" and in addition there's some valuable lesson we should be remembering, but that's where you've stumped me.