Istockphoto – Number one on our list is not free but for the quality of images you can get for just over a dollar a piece its well worth mentioning. This really is my number one site for stock, you can also get a huge range of vector graphics.

SXC – Stock Exchange is a free stock photo site with a huge number of images from amateur photographers, this is probably the best free site available – the downside is the server is usually painfully slow; something you have to put up with for the free photos though.

Morgue File – A nice collection, again by amateurs which has been growing nicely. They also have a good collection of photography lessons for the budding photographers out there.

Yotophoto – Photograph search engine “indexing well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’ images. ”

Flickr – The creative commons section of flickr lets you search for images to use – always check the license on photos first though.

Stockvault – Not a huge collection at just 7,000 photos but we did find some really nice quality shots – worth checking out for sure.

Everystockphoto – Another photo search engine covering over 720k images so not quite “every stock photo” but some good quality shots were found here all the same.

Image After – 15k Free images and textures categorised and with search.

Free Photos Bank – Nice cleanly designed site which is easy to navigate to your chosen photos – Has a good selection of decent photographs.

Photocase – Some really great photography can be found on here – but I would recommend browsing the categories rather than using the search which seems to throw up random results ie. A search for car yields photos of buildings, rusty stuff and someones eye!

Photogen – Not a huge selection but the site looks promising, one to keep an eye on possibly.

Free Web Photo – Again, not a huge selection but a few gems in there that could come in handy.

DeviantArt Stockart – User submitted photos, collection is growing nicely but the standard isnt as high as some of the other sites we’ve mentioned so far.

Photo Rack – 26k photos to choose from of a fairly high quality.