One factor influencing photographers could have been that many of their high profile clients were (and are) creating and hosting Flash websites. A lot of ad ag

One factor influencing photographers could have been that many of their high profile clients were (and are) creating and hosting Flash websites. A lot of ad agencies still espouse Flash websites. Check out thefwa.com or Comm Arts Interactive awards: http://www.commarts.com/interactive http://www.commarts.com/interactive for examples. A bit of a tangent, but many large advertising/"digital" agencies that really should know better are still serving up all-Flash sites with little or no fallback: http://www.firstborn.com http://www.firstborn.com http://ff0000.com http://ff0000.com http://www.goodbysilverstein.com http://www.goodbysilverstein.com http://www.toolofna.com http://www.toolofna.com http://www.soleilnoir.net http://www.soleilnoir.net http://www.toolofna.com/ http://www.toolofna.com/ Of the above, Red is the worst, offering this one-liner (in #333, no less): "You need to upgrade your flash." Yes, even on iOS. Other all-Flash agency sites, like http://www.ogilvy.com http://www.ogilvy.com and http://www.razorfish.com http://www.razorfish.com prefer to serve Flash, but manage to offer nearly all information and content in the absence of a Flash plugin.