Looking for images or hints on stock photo providers or resources?

For film makers and photographers The Bahamas Film Commission

Stock photography providers (excluding the big ones Like Getty, Corbis, Alamy and so on):

Graham Waiting (that's me)
Tim O'Keefe
and Shane Pinder

If you are looking for underwater photography, Melinda at Grand Bahama Scuba, where I learned to dive, has a super portfolio but you will have to contact her directly for details.

And here are some folks who love the Exumas and have a super collection of pictures of the island that you can  buy online. Bahamaprints.

A word of caution about some of the big stock agencies about keywords. Many of their images say they are of the Bahamas, but they are not. I know that because I have looked at most of the portfolios in the big agencies, both out of interest and envy. A large proportion of their images are mis-keyworded, presumably because they have elves doing the keywording who don't know the difference between Turks and Caicos, Belize or the Bahamas. Buyer beware! Last thing you want to do is tout images of the Bahamas, when they are not. Someone, like me, will notice! (I don't have that problem because I concentrate on the Bahamas).

With that caution, here's a custom search engine that I built on Google.