No - on HN it should not be hard. We may be smug about it and criticise his business model, saying "he should give his image for free and charge for making cus

No - on HN it should not be hard. We may be smug about it and criticise his business model, saying "he should give his image for free and charge for making custom picture or work for the BBC or another imaginary plan based on whatever works in our field". But that should not be difficult for us to understand the value and the work there is behind a single picture. That's too similar to making a small fortune writing code which is what most of us are doing here.