stock.xchng - free stock photography

Though I imagine you'd be hard pressed to find anything free on most stock exchanges, that isn't the case for this massive collection of free stock photography.

When a quick Google search isn't giving you quality images and if you're concerned about violating copyright, head to stock.xchng and make a free account to download images (though you can search and browse without one).

What's great about free stock photos?

What is great about stock.xchng is that users can appropriate any uploaded photo for creative projects as long as they abide by a set of reasonable usage guidelines. It's important to honor these contributors and credit them for their work (some users have specific requests, so take note of these under the "availability" heading to the left of the download button).

So how do I use them?

To use the photo above, I had to leave a comment explaining where I was using the work. For we users, this is a minor obligation if it means getting excellent—and free—photos for our projects! For someone who isn't all that savvy with Wall Street, this is one stock.xchng that I can get excited about.