There are quite a few sites like istockphoto and fotolia - but the cheapest images are about USD 2 each (and the ones I liked were USD 9). There are other sites like "Flickr's Creative Commons pool" - but I did not find really good pics here.<p>Where do you guys buy cheap (or free) pics for your blog posts?
I normally do not buy pictures for my blog posts, I try to shoot (or draw) them myself. They are not perfect then, but that's OK for me.<p>When I need pictures for a presentation (a conference talk, ...) I buy those at iStockPhoto. I always found the high quality images I was looking for there, and the price is reasonable. Even though I need a lot of images for my presentations - See an example here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKvVO93YU8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKvVO93YU8</a> (I shot some of the pictures myself, but several are from iStockPhoto).
Most of the time I just use Flickr. I search for what I'm looking for, then click the advanced search tab. Checking the "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content" limits the results to stuff that copyright owners are willing to let you use. Most of the time you just need a simple attribution with the image.
I use all-free photos from these places<p><a href="http://morguefile.com/" rel="nofollow">http://morguefile.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.photorack.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.photorack.net/</a><p><a href="http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/</a><p>(found at article: <a href="http://webmarketingfree.com/free/royalty-free-photos-top-3-free-no-attribution-needed-sites/" rel="nofollow">http://webmarketingfree.com/free/royalty-free-photos-top-3-f...</a>)
I use shutterstock.com - with their cheaper plan it works out at 2$ per picture up to 1000px wide which is usually great for blog posts.
I like their search too.