Comments on: How To Find Free Photos for Your Local Blog

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:20:52 +0000

Here is another site for the list free stock photos it is my own site of a growing collection of high quality photos under a CC licence. Thanks.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:44:15 +0000

That’s a great idea, Adam — and that’s exactly what the Consumerist.com blog does. I post a lot of my photos in there in the hopes that they’ll use them on their blog. Nice exposure for me, free photos for them. Great idea.

Thanks for all the comments here, gang.

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By: John Lee

John Lee — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:46:25 +0000

Great post Matt!

Finding relevant photos is always a struggle when blogging, and going to default sources like iStockPhoto isn’t always the right call financially. Good to have a go-to-list of *free* sources for photos.

By: Adam Gaffin

Adam Gaffin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:14:30 +0000

Another Flickr idea: Set up your own pool or even just tag, so that people who like seeing their photos on your site can sort of give you permission in advance. If you set up a group, you’re also potentially setting up a new community of folks, who will discuss the photos, trade tips, etc.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:09:24 +0000

In the past I have used everystockphoto.com which is a search engine for free images – it pulls from all of the sources you mentioned and will list the specific type of license or whether attribution is required per image.

It’s a great tool for those looking for the one-stop shop mentality.

By: B.T.

B.T. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:06:38 +0000

Zemanta – http://www.zemanta.com/ – is another option if you use Wordpress; Blogger; Movabletype; Typepad; Drupal; LiveJournal; Ning, etc. It not only provides you with CC licensed photos but you can link to Wikipedia, Amazon, Youtube, IMDB. Love that it is also a Firefox extension.

And the nice thing to do is go back to the person’s Flickr photo and leave a link to your blog. I always thank them for using the CC license. I’ve had folks do the same for my photos.

Love CC – thanks for blogging about our options.