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[Snoskred]

This is just one of many - what is your favourite?

http://everystockphoto.com/

[Lani]

Being extraordinarily lazy, I often just go to Wikimedia Commons

[Martin Neumann]

http://www.morguefile.com/ is a site I've used a fair bit - decent, quality photos and lots of 'em.


also, check this listing of free photo sites - http://pstutorialsblog.com/44/free-stock-photos/

[Jaycee]

istockphoto.com is one we use quite a bit at work and the photos aren't too expensive, especially for websites.

[neerav]

I have used Stock Exchange for many years as a source of Royalty free photos

Some of my photos are on there as well and one has been used as the cover of a childrens book :-)

Another good source is Flickr providing you abide by the photographers creative commmons licence agreement

[Suzie]

Flickr and there is a great new service Photrade

Met Andy and Krista at Blog World Expo. Also if you take breat photos you can put them there and you may make come money

[swollenpickles]

This is just one of many - what is your favourite?

http://everystockphoto.com/

I've used http://www.sxc.hu/ quite a bit. But you can never bookmark too many stock photo sites!

[CannedTuna]

Then there is always

http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm

If you can't find inspiration from those sites/photos.. well...  

[kathiemt]

I've had an account with istockphoto.com for years and is the primary place I go for myself and my clients - they always have great stock!

[Boatweb]

Hi
Have been using stockexchange and found it good for boat photos.

Just stumbled  this one http://www.burningwell.org/
plus they have a list of other free image sites on there

cheers

Ian

[guera]

Hi I was just looking for photos in Flickr to use in a blog post and I was looking for some help with atrributing to the author properly.

The photo I want to use is on an attribution license, so it says I can distribute and adapt the work.

I am going to put a frame on it and also use the link back to the flickr photo page when I insert it into the post.

Does anyone know if this is enough for that license or should I also put a note saying "photo by [flickrname]"?

[Snoskred]

I say always safest to err on the side of giving too much credit. I would put the note saying photo by flickrname..

[guera]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Better that than annoying someone with too little credt.

Ta 

[Lani]

The US government is a great source for high quality Public Domain image.  This page has links to some of the most useful image collections.

The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries

[Anonymum]

The US government is a great source for high quality Public Domain image.  This page has links to some of the most useful image collections.

The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries

That's quite a site Lani!

[Lani]

Oh, and if you don't already have more than enough places to look, you could go through this extremely long list...

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources

[Sephyroth]

Another resource out there are some 3000 images that the Library of Congress put up on Flickr - all released in the public domain; a lot of these pictures have appeared on sites like Shorpy, in higher resolutions than the ones on Flickr, though.

The thing about the images, though, is that they're all from the early 1900s - about half from 1910s and the other half (in color) from the 1930s and 40s. :001_smile:

[leetorrens]

I write about the stock photography market on my blog, though a little more from the contributor side than the buyer perspective. I've reviewed all the cheap stock photography (microstock) vendors worth looking at.  iStockphoto is one of the best, but not the cheapest.

If you don't want to bother going to my blog, here's are two others that I recommend for bloggers:

Fotolia
Dreamstime

[secludedhabitat]

I have to put my hand up for istockphoto.com as well. I only ever need the small images so am only paying about $1.6AUD per image which is not bad. I think they have really added a bit of extra life into my blog.

I will have to take a squiz at some of the free ones too, thanks for the links.
Stu

[Lani]

I'm totally sold on the Creative Commons at Flickr now.  Don't think I'll ever need to go elsewhere.

The links for CC searches by the way are:

search page for Attribution Licensed photos
search page for Attribution-NoDerivs Licensed photos
search page for Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licensed photos
search page for Attribution-NonCommercial licensed photos
search page for Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licensed photos
search page for Attribution-ShareAlike licensed photos

For more details on each license, see A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images from Skelliewag.org

[MyThreeDaughters]

I have used Stock Exchange for many years as a source of Royalty free photos

Some of my photos are on there as well and one has been used as the cover of a childrens book :-)

Another good source is Flickr providing you abide by the photographers creative commmons licence agreement

Thanks I found some photos there I liked that I may use sometime.  It was lovely a photo of yours was used for a book.  I haven't had a look further to see if there are any like our photos we have at home, maybe sometime I will consider submitting some.  Thanks again. 

[neerav]

I have used Stock Exchange for many years as a source of Royalty free photos

Some of my photos are on there as well and one has been used as the cover of a childrens book :-)

Another good source is Flickr providing you abide by the photographers creative commmons licence agreement

Thanks I found some photos there I liked that I may use sometime.  It was lovely a photo of yours was used for a book.  I haven't had a look further to see if there are any like our photos we have at home, maybe sometime I will consider submitting some.  Thanks again. 

I was stoked when they told me my crocodile photo would be the cover of a kids book http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/my-crocodile-photo-used-in-a-childrens-book/

[MyThreeDaughters]

It's a great photo.  I can imagine the kids would love it. 

[Lani]

That's very cool, Neerav!

[kathiemt]

That's great - what a thrill that must be for you.