Stock photography. Is that a bad word?

150,000 images – maybe that is not a huge amount of images... But when you are talking about 1000 new friends – it is quite a lot! This year was a start. A lot of mistakes, and attempts to fix them (Thank God, our Contributors helped us a lot) and we slowly, but surely, are entering into this complicated world of stock photography.
We started this business because of Photography. The word "stock" has been added just because it is the correct term for photos that are not custom made for a specific purpose.
Stock photography. Is that a bad word?
We have been online for one year, and we have heard a lot of very interesting opinions. In summarizing them, we would like to highlight some misunderstood concepts.

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