23 Websites For Free Stock Photos: Every Blogger Needs

Small Business owners & bloggers like me are in constant need of beautiful photos for their blog posts and websites. Once we find the right photos, we spend time looking for online editing tools to customise these photos for our blogs. Canva – the photo editing tool is by far the best, but I also use many other Free Graphic Design Tools to customise my images.

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Getting the right image to compliment your post is a big challenge, especially, when everyone is using almost same websites for free stock photos. Because of this, we do see similar images being shared on multiple sites. I have tried to bring to table a good mix of popular and not-so-popular websites (yet) that have beautiful photos and vectors which are absolutely free to use. (Some cases CC is required)

http://www.bigfoto.com/: Great site for photos of various cities
Note: All bigfoto asks in return for this free download is that you place a link to the bigfoto website on your own site, or if you don’t have a website or blog, that you click the Facebook Like or twitter button. (not mandatory)

http://www.cepolina.com/ : A good mix of photos- food, nature and more..
Note: The images of the site can be downloaded for personal or commercial use, please credit www.cepolina.com on your website

http://picjumbo.com/: Pixabay quality photos for free

http://photoeverywhere.co.uk/: Free to use totally free travel Stock Photos

http://images.superfamous.com : This site carries stunning landscape images
Note: The Superfamous Images are available under the conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This means that you can use the work for your own purposes as long as credit is provided.

http://www.beautifulfreepictures.com/: Great Nature and flower photos for free

http://vector4free.com/: Free Vectors to add to your photos and customise them

http://getrefe.tumblr.com/: Great free photos that can be used for business, tech related posts

http://www.gratisography.com/: Again, great photos for marketing, Tech and business related posts

http://wefunction.com/category/free-photos/: Photos by Liam Mc Kay they are 100% free to use. Follow @liammckay on twitter and say thank you!

http://www.morguefile.com/: High Resolution stock photos all for free use.

http://littlevisuals.co/ : This website has some brilliant high –res photos. Unfortunately the person who creates the site passed away in Nov 2013. An announcement on the website says:
Those of you who look at Little Visuals and any new visitors will be aware there have been no further uploads for over a year now. Sadly the young man who created this site died suddenly in Nov 2013. His name is Nic he is 26 and we are his family. Nic is one of far too many young adults who’s death comes under the heading of S.A.D.S ( Sudden Adult death Syndrome ). We are now fundraising in the hope to provide a number of schools or sports areas with portable defibrillators in Nic’s memory. With this in mind we would like to ask if any of you that view his site and download the images would consider a small donation towards the Hand on Heart Charity. We hope to update this site in the near future with previously unpublished photos.

http://nos.twnsnd.co/: Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions. Recapturing history

http://picography.co/ : High Resolution photos – free to use for commercial use. This site is very similar to unsplash

http://jaymantri.com/ : A site by Jay Mantri, providing beautiful high res free photos. Say thank you to Jay on twitter @JayMantri

http://dealjumbo.com/freebies-for-you/ : Get beautiful icon, fonts, brush fonts all for free.. Use these icons to customise your photos

http://www.freepixels.com/ : FreePixels offers free high resolution stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects

http://all-free-download.com/free-photos: More than 88000 Free Photos in jpg format

http://www.public-domain-image.com/home-public.html : Free to use Public domain images, royalty free stock photos

http://www.free-picture.net/ : Free membership to resources for designers’ backgrounds, images, and photocollections.

http://deathtothestockphoto.com/ : Brilliant Free photos for creative use.

https://freerangestock.com/ : High-resolution stock images and textures for free

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ : Download free and premium stock photos and illustrations for websites. Find a huge selection of photos and illustrations. Our most popular categories are pictures of people and business pictures.