Great piece, Gareth. And a much needed topic to be discussed and considered.

Folks have no problem posting their phone images to Instagram. Which are often at the same quality level as the stories they write on Medium.

So why not combine the two? We are all beginners on some level. That's the democratic stance of the Internet.

Plus simple editing apps like Snapseed make photo editing accessible to all.

And it's time that those image libraries went out of business. They are a cheap shot for both the writers that use them, and the photogs that give away their hard earned images for free.