Finally took the deciscion after some hunting around .  We have now purchased a subscription at Photos.com , which seems to be a good buy considering the amount of 139 USD . But time and browsing through its library will tell how good their stock of stock photographs really are.

First thing i did after taking the subscription is made it mandatory for all our designers to spend some amount of time each day to search in thephotos library and download as many images from there as time permits . The subscription mentions in its by-laws that photos should not be downloaded unless required , which i believe is bullshit. seriously , i paid for the service when there are several free sites which provide as good images, so why not use it . And anyway , we down here do not get as good broadband connectivity as  in many countries and i doubt our downloads would make any dent on their bandwith bills

Now on to jazzing up our sites ( secretly i wish there was such a site to download fonts per subscription , like this as well )