As you’ve no doubt noticed I like to use clipart in my limericks. I like to use an unreal, jokey graphic with what is an unreal, jokey rhyme.
Of course there is Pixabay, but it’s often limited. It irks me when I can pen a rhyme in five minutes, then spend an hour hunting for a suitable image.
Anyway if anybody is interested, yesterday I joined IMGBIN – they have a deal on at the moment of unlimited downloads for life, for, was it $30? Something like. About £25. Seemed worth taking a punt just to save myself time in the future. Early days but I’m impressed – the search tags seem good and though I only looked for three images so far, it was painless and the quality is decent. Including the one above.
I should stress that this is clipart rather than e.g. photos.
Mister Bump 
That’s cool.
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Thee beest an photo-grapher of no small talents. We have seen your pics to be of superior quality. Stepping outside to snap a picture – posed, staged or au naturale as it were will provide you free and relevant imagery. Too boot, it gets you away from your keyboard – let those fingers relax!
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You, as an ex-IT bod will appreciate that we can waste many otherwise-happy hours farting around with the bells and whistles just to make something look pretty when what we should be building is function. In this case, content.
I really can’t be bothered creating clipart, so this seems a small price to pay for “pretty”.
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know about their offer.
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Granting proper “credit” [as it should done, religiously] is also a veritable pain in the sit-down. Save that it chews-up precious ones-and-zeroes it’s easier to use my own stuff, “paint”ed or photo-ed. To this end, I try to make art or photos lend themselves to more than a single “subject.” Not always possible, but I try. If either of my readers get bored and look away, no big deal, they are bound to most cases anyway. [I cannot teach myself to use words sparingly.]
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space was one of the reasons I opted for cliupart over photographs, though I still use photos in other posts. I budget 6% of my allocation per year. If seventeen years I’ll be dead anyhow.
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You won’t. We won’t have it.
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I’m in the minority here but your photos are fabulous so I would take photos any day 😁
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The shots I take now are just snaps. Even before, a lot were just snaps but now it is total. Most of the time now I can’t see what I’m taking. Where they are almost as good is the post-processing.
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Photos are real vs the digital stuff that’s what I like better
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Photos are a snapshot of real life, true, but very few are artistic.
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