Do you love to have pictures on your blog? What service or website do you use to find them. Or… do you use your own pictures?
I don’t want to pay for a new image every time I write a blog article. I have reused a few images – but I’m such a visual person that I do love to find some neat new cool image that is perfect for the article.
I have over 20 blogs that I am actively publishing on so I need a ton of images. The images available at istockphoto.com are gorgeous – but it seems a waste of money to buy images when other sites have great choices for free.
If I’m writing a product review or adding a recommended product to an article… of course I can use the image from the advertisers website.
But I write about things like “Decorating A Country Dining room”… and I’m going to need and image of a country style dining room.
I have used the Photo Dropper WordPress plugin to place Flickr photos (Creative Commons) photos right on my blog. I love the way it finds and drops a related photo right in for me.
The problem I am having with Photo Dropper/Flickr is the photos are not hosted on my site…. so if the author of the photo decides to delete it from Flickr… I no longer have a photo on my blog.
I would rather spend a few minutes and a bit of extra effort and find images to upload to my own files. Thank You Very Much. :0)
Here is a short list of some of the websites I use for images:
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
http://www.public-domain-photos.com/
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
http://www.wpclipart.com/index.html
And my favorite Free Image website: http://www.morguefile.com
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Interesting about photo dropper. I didn’t know it left the image on Flickr. I didn’t like the interface so went back to searching CC licenses on the Flickr site and doing the download/upload thing.
The trouble with CC though, is that the owner of the photo can change the licensing at any time and leave you in violation of copyright.
I like the public domain option, though. Will definitely check them out. Thanks!
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