The image above licensed this month very soon after I had copied it from the original slide. I really like this snapshot of a street in Waterford, Ireland of 1968 with the young woman walking with her friend and push-chair/stroller. I like the busy street and happy looking people, the vintage signs, the classic cars, and the view to the historic landmark.
I had 41 licences from Alamy this month, one of which was a Public Domain image of a very famous painting – it went for a good fee too! The remaining 40 images are in the slide show below in no particular order. Six were of old slide scans like the one above, fifteen were taken in 2025 or 2026.
The mood at the Alamy forum has been grim for the past few months since the iniquitous contract change, and for me particularly since I became aware of their accounts for 2025 – no wonder Alamy is short of money having given £28 million in retained profit to its parent company PA Media/ the Press Association. The main shareholders of the Press Association are the same large UK newspaper groups which seem to enjoy preferential sweetheart low fees for their Alamy images.
Alamy is a sad shadow of the ‘photographer friendly’ company I joined 24 years ago. I will say no more, but if there was another obvious option I would be happy to walk away from Alamy. And after so many years of commitment and positivity that hits in the gut.
Close up of Vauxhall logo, car sales dealership, Ransomes Europark, Ipswich, Suffolk, England 
Final electricity bill, UK 
Erosion and deposition with river cliff and slip-off slope, River Deben, Ufford, Suffolk, England 
Rhossili beach solifluction terrace feature, Gower peninsula, Swansea, South Wales, UK 
Fundación César Manrique, Taro de Tahíche, Lanzarote, Canary islands, Spain 
Vodafone advertising billboard picture of Irish rugby team, Ireland, Irish Republic 
Construction work site laying electricity power cables related to East Anglia One wind farm, Waldringfield Suffolk, England, UK 
Claim Universal Credit online banner in window of Jobcentre Plus office, Department for Work and Pensions, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK 
Doom painting on wooden panels at Saint James the Great church, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England, UK 
Detail of fish in stained glass window by William Nicholson, Mells church, Wiltshire, England, UK 
Wire art sculpture figure of King Edward the second in prison cell room, Berkeley castle, Gloucestershire, England, UK 
The Glue Pot pub on corner of terraced housing street in the Railway Village, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK 
Signs for Coroner’s Court and offices, Whitehouse industrial estate, Ipswich, England 
Old vintage HMV record plater wooden cabinet on sale ay auction, UK 
Shaker workroom, American museum, Claverton, Bath, Somerset, England, UK 
Ruins of Holy Trinity church, Buckfastleigh, north Devon, England, UK destroyed by fire in 1992 
West frontage of Lincoln cathedral church viewed from castle walls, city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK 
Derelict empty boarded-up house next to renovated house, Willingham Terrace, Grimsby, north east Lincolnshire, England, UK 
The Almere apartment building, Milton Keynes Central, Buckinghamshire, England, UK 
The Bank England building, Threadneedle Street, City of London, London, England, UK 
The Royal National Theatre building from River Thames, South Bank, London, England, UK architect Denys Lasdun 1976 
Terraced house with bow windows, Catherine Street, Hartlepool Headland, County Durham, England, UK 
Passengers on crowded platform after train cancellations and delays inside York railway station, York, Yorkshire, England, UK 
Lloyds bank Limited branch, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK people passing on street pavement 
Devizes Assize Court building currently derelict, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK architect Thomas Henry Wyatt 1835. 
Citizens Advice charity office sign on High Street shopfront, Beccles, Suffolk, England, UK 
Estate agent For Sale sign outside historic properties, Halifax Street, Lewisham, London SE26, England, UK 
Modern architecture of Magistrates’ Courts building, Colchester, Essex, England, UK designed by H2O Architects 2012 
Home and away football fans walking out of railway station, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK 22 August 2026 
Temporary pier Marine Bulk Import Facility MBIF jetty construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station, Suffolk, England, UK 
Detail of temporary pier Marine Bulk Import Facility MBIF jetty construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station, Suffolk, England, UK 
Motorway road junction infrastructure development Dhahran, Saudi Arabia being built in desert, 1979 
Cars parked on High Street in Cotswold town of Burford, Gloucestershire, England 1964 
Sailors sitting on stools at a bar in Italy 1966 
Fort Motylinski 1908-09, Tarhaouhaout, Tamanrasset, Ahaggar Mountains , Sahara desert, Algeria, north Africa, 1973 
Panoramic view over Santa Cruz de Tenerife, capital city of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 1964 
Young woman pushing a pushchair along pavement, Barronstrand Street view to Clock Tower, Waterford, Ireland 1968 
A294X6 Pleasurewood Hills funfair ride Suffolk England 
Shingle Street, Suffolk, England 
Charles Bridge spanning the River Vltava, Praque, Czech Republic
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I am at aloss to understand why I do not make the same sort of sales as you do despite the fact that I have approx 10000 images on the site. I have a wide variety of different images. As far as Alamy is concerned it is very disappointing that the company that continued to offer real remuneration to its photographers is now reneging on this. Given that Getty is facing bankrupty I suppose we should not be too surprised.
Thanks for your comment Kevin. I don’t think that I do particularly well compared with many others. Bear in mind that I have ten times more images on Alamy than you – just over 100k. Yes, it is incredibly sad that Alamy has become what it is today.
Great images as uisual and thanks for sharing. Though Alamy prices are declining, I am not aware of any agency matching their commission fees. It really is a hamster wheel.