10 Sites with Free Images for your Blog

notes on Blogs and Blogging by Renzie Baluyut.

This post was originally published in my other blog in December of last year. Since then, there had been changes with that site's general direction, prompting me to move much of the original content over to this blog right here.

Digital Photography and Blogging go hand-in-hand. It is not uncommon for bloggers to take their own pics and post them up on their own sites.

Still, there are a lot of bloggers out there who aren't that much into digital photography- I just got into it myself earlier this year with my trusty Canon. So where else can you possibly get photos to use on your blogs?

Here's a list of ten sites you can go through if you're looking for pics to use on your blog:

1. Flickr. Flickr is Yahoo's very own photo storage service. It's quite popular, and many Flickr users offer their photos for use to the public.

2. Stock.Xchang. I've been using Stock.Xchang for years, as far back in my days of radio sales and marketing, finding images for powerpoint presentations. Lots of royalty-free stock photos, and easy to navigate around.

3. Image After. Another collection of free stock photography.

4. Google Images. Google's own database of online photos. There's a whole lot of pictures here, but since they have different types of copyright, it means that not all would be available for free use.

5. Buzznet.

6. PD Photo.

7. Open Photo. An excellent stock photo community, with lots of categories to browse through. Creative Commons licenses apply to different photos.

8. Our Media.

9. Free Stock Photos. Great site for free stock photos, but rather limited in terms of its selection. Still, free is free, and you can't beat that.

10. MorgueFile.

In any case, it's always wise to review each site's Copyright policies- as it always is when you visit sites with pics you'd want to use for your blogging efforts.

Thanks to the guys over at AboutWeblogs for the tip.

This post, by the way, was originally published The Status is NOT Quo | RenzieBaluyut.com in December of last year. At the time, that blog of mine had a lot of articles on a whole lot of topics. It's been streamlined since then, and all posts on Marketing, New Media and Entrepreneurship were moved here to KeyboardMonkeys.com.

Cheers, everyone!