Last week, I was registering a new domain (JohnRPattison.com) through GoDaddy, and saw that if I made a non-domain purchase, I could get my new domain for $1.99.  I glanced around and found their Webstock Photography Collection, available for $10.  With a $1.00 off coupon, I had a pretty good deal!

The CD arrived today, and so far I’m not very impressed.  I guess I shouldn’t have expected much for $10, but it seems like maybe they just compiled a bunch of photos that various employees took onto a CD.  They’re not particularly high resolution and the “models” certainly don’t seem professional.  This has me thinking, maybe we discount too easily the value of our own “stock photography.”  Maybe this should encourage us all to take pictures of everyday objects that we can use later.  Using a service like Flickr (my favorite photo web site), you can tag photographs or add descriptions, and then later go back and search.  I bet my friend Glenn Hebert would be good at this!