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Nature photographer Duane Hansen takes aim, photograph copyright Lorelle VanFossenI’ve been collecting a variety of resources for free photographs to use on your website and blog. These images are, for the most part, free to use, but may have copyright and usage restrictions. Some may require registration, use only on non-commercial sites, and/or a link back to the source. Others may require more. Check thoroughly for the specific usage rights before using any of these images.

is a major resource for images, but many of these have restricted use. Not every image on Flickr or the web is free to use. Check thoroughly for usage rights, and if in doubt, get permission or don’t use the image.

The images featured range from people, places, wildlife, and space, as well as textures, patterns, and artistic graphic images. These free photos sites listed may have nude or violent images, though I did my best to exclude image sites which specialize in those.

General Photography Images

Nature and Science Photographs

Patterns, Texture, and Art Design Photographs

More information on Finding Free Images and Photographs on the Web

I’m sure I’ve missed a few. Know of any free photo stock sites that should be included in this list?

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18 Comments

  1. Char
    Posted October 4, 2006 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    Thanks again for your help at my blog. This is another fantastic list of resources. I expect I will be returning to your site regularly for more info.

    Check my blog today for my thank you post to you.

  2. lexx
    Posted October 4, 2006 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    Great List. Thank you!

  3. Michelle K.
    Posted October 5, 2006 at 4:49 am | Permalink

    Excellent list of resources. Thank you very much!

  4. Martial Development
    Posted October 5, 2006 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

    Great list, but you forgot one of my favorite resources: Wikipedia! Images there are categorized by topic, and mostly vetted for copyright restrictions.

  5. Davis Freeberg
    Posted October 6, 2006 at 10:39 am | Permalink

    You can’t leave out Zooomr (with 3 o’s) They not only allow you to create zoomable portals in your photos, but also have trackbacks so you can see how many people clicked on your photo and where. This is especially helpful for bloggers because it shows you the number of RSS readers that are clicking on your photos and because it shows you when someone else blogs your photo and can see what they say about it.

  6. Piotr
    Posted January 29, 2007 at 12:59 am | Permalink

    The new adress to Piotr.Pix is http://www.piotrpix.com/

  7. Brent
    Posted March 3, 2007 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

    Don’t forget to mention openclipart.org.

  8. Nikolai
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 7:23 am | Permalink

    Always looking for good stock photos. Free ones are the best :)

  9. David Bradley
    Posted August 2, 2007 at 10:04 am | Permalink

    Hi Lorelle

    As a freelance sci-tech journalist of almost 20 years standing, text and image copyright has been a big part of the business end of my work. As such, I recently wrote an advice piece on what’s on and what’s not on in terms of credit and copyright. (It’s not bona fide legal advice so take at face value only, but hopefully it could be helpful to some of your readers).

    Please feel free to comment on that item and link back to your own excellent post and list of image sources. Keep up the good work.

  10. Roy Tennant
    Posted October 9, 2007 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

    Please also see my site of over 2,000 large, high quality images at http://freelargephotos.com/ . If you use a photo on a web site or blog all I ask is a photo credit linked to my site.

  11. Sakib
    Posted October 10, 2007 at 6:59 am | Permalink

    cool website links and superb articles

    thanks

  12. Sant
    Posted October 10, 2007 at 4:07 pm | Permalink

    Thank you very much for this wonderful resource. It really makes it easier for me to search for relevant images I can use for my new blog.

    Cheers!

  13. Rachel Goldstein
    Posted November 20, 2007 at 10:53 am | Permalink

    Great post - here is another list of free stock photography.

  14. M Mattice
    Posted November 20, 2007 at 10:55 am | Permalink

    http://www.vintagepixels.com

    From the site…
    Vintage Pixels is a large database of historical, high quality, free-for-use images which allows people to share their archived photos. You can download images for print, or use in graphic design, as well upload images to add to the ever growing album of vintage images.

  15. PAul
    Posted February 24, 2008 at 4:51 am | Permalink

    Hi all ..
    im using: http://www.freepictureclick.com
    its really good source .. more than 700 free photos
    backlink is required ..

    Have a nice day

  16. Yemek Tarifleri
    Posted April 27, 2008 at 1:54 pm | Permalink

    Lorelle VanFossen has an amazing list of places to find free images for your blogs

  17. Yemek Tarifleri
    Posted April 27, 2008 at 2:06 pm | Permalink

    Lorelle VanFossen has an amazing list of places to find free images for your blogs

  18. Tattoo Pictures
    Posted May 13, 2008 at 6:54 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    Thanks for this list, it’s a great help for my tattoo picture blog. I’ve been looking for things like this everywhere in the net.

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