Before I get into what this is all about I would like to apologize for not posting a new article for some time. I've been on a health drive, doing a lot of running. To take it to it's final conclusion, it almost was for me, I decided to run one of those strong man races.

Well, I'm no strong man but I am a survivor - luckily - as I got lost after one and something miles. That was in June. I've just got back. The furthest I am now allowed is Selfridges, so the next article won't be so long in the making - unless I have trouble finding a down escalator, which I sometimes do.

Stock photography, now that's a nasty term for any type of photography. Unfortunately, our friends across the Atlantic, the U S of A, thought it appropriate, so it stuck. Photo Libraries, as stock agencies have been known here in zero growth UK, isn’t any better mind you.

It does seem as though stock agencies are very much influenced by these dreadful terms though, as they seem be taking the literal meaning all to seriously. If ever the cheese has been left in the burger it seems be with stock photography producers and in particular (as usual) the microstockers – the penny stockers.

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