{"id":1511,"date":"2010-06-01T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2010-06-01T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T01:23:08","slug":"stock-photo-site-ugguly-pugguly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/stock-photo-site-ugguly-pugguly\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock photo site; ugguly pugguly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/pic\/l\/b\/bl\/bluegum\/863463_47400114.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this picture<\/a> on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/\" target=\"_blank\">rather cool stock photo site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/06\/01\/stock-photo-site-ugguly-pugguly\/pugsmall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PugSmall.jpg\" alt=\"PugSmall from Stock.xchng\" title=\"PugSmall\" width=\"450\" height=\"483\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PugSmall.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PugSmall-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photos at Stock.XCHNG are free for most uses (with a very few money-making exceptions) and despite the suspiciously flaky URL (.hu?), the site is owned by reliable old Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>The catch is that they&#8217;re amateur photos uploaded by people simply giving their work to the world. That&#8217;s cool. But it also means that if you search on &#8220;dog&#8221; or &#8220;cat&#8221; you&#8217;ll get 50 pages of mostly undistinguished snapshots (albeit in glorious high-resolution) of people&#8217;s pets sleeping, grinning, or gazing soulfully up at the camera. Still, sometimes the old &#8220;looking up at the camera shot of Fido&#8221; &#8230; well, it just works.<\/p>\n<p>Cute l&#8217;il ET, isn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>The above was taken by user bluegum. Nice job, bluegum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this picture on a rather cool stock photo site. The photos at Stock.XCHNG are free for most uses (with a very few money-making exceptions) and despite the suspiciously flaky URL (.hu?), the site is owned by reliable old Getty Images. The catch is that they&#8217;re amateur photos uploaded by people simply giving their work to the world. That&#8217;s cool. But it also means that if you search on &#8220;dog&#8221; or &#8220;cat&#8221; you&#8217;ll get 50 pages of mostly undistinguished snapshots (albeit in glorious high-resolution) of people&#8217;s pets sleeping, grinning, or gazing soulfully up at the camera. Still, sometimes the old&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/stock-photo-site-ugguly-pugguly\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stock photo site; ugguly pugguly<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}