Mark Crosling of Strategic Content recently published the ultimate guide for all your free photo needs. Listing 56 websites, you can use it to download high-quality photos at no cost. All the listed free photo websites have been summarized to include information about:
- any copyright restrictions.
- whether photo attribution is required.
- search capability on the site to find photos.
- whether signup is required.
- link to the website.
Unless specified in the summary below, photos are free of copyright restrictions, which means you can download them and use them for commercial or personal purposes, without attribution.
I was particularly impressed by some websites that specialize in specific topics, such as food or vintage photos. Just click on the images to visit the respective website!
Vintage
New Old Stock
New Old Stock contains vintage photos from the public archives. They are not just free of copyright restrictions, but also a great way to pass your time scrolling through them!
Ancestry Images
The site is a free image archive of historical prints and images dating from the 17th but mostly from the later 18th century and 19th century.
Food
FoodiesFeed
FoodiesFeed is a resource of free realistic food photos in high resolution and free digital goods related to food.
Aggregators
Bossfight
Bossfight aggregates photos daily from other popular free photo download sites that are free of restrictions. You can download photos individually, subscribe for free, or get a downloadable zip file of EVERY image once a month.
RBGstock
One of the largest collections of free high-quality photographs. RGBStock is searchable by tag or category and photos are free of all copyright restrictions.
Visual Hunt
Another aggregator that curates the best free images from many online sources and pulls them together.
Travel and Nature
Bucketlistly
Bucketlistly contains 2800+ travel photos categorized by country.
Moveast
João Pacheco, a designer born and raised in Portugal, has posted high-quality travel photos from his journeys to Asia.
Travel Coffee Book
A large collection of travel photos from different destinations.
Free Nature Stock
Free Nature Stock is the ultimate destination for nature lovers.
Other
Minimography
Minimography specializes in royalty-free minimalist photos.
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Nicholas: I am so running behind, but ticked on ‘posts’ I might have missed and came across this jewel. What a boon! Thanks to Mark Crosling of Strategic Content for putting it together.
Best, Jackie Weger
Thank you, Jackie 🙂
Thank you So much for this! Am sharing! ???
Yay! Thanks for spreading the word 🙂
I might offer some of my photos to these sites. One way to get them noticed!
Best wishes, Pete.
That’s a great idea, actually! You should totally do so!
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you.
You have saved me from banging my head against my desk, as I hopelessly search for free images. Only to realise I need a subscription or may incur other fees.
Yay! I’m so glad you found the post useful 😀
Thanks as always Nicholas. Bookmarked and shared! 🙂
Thanks! I’m glad you found it useful 🙂
🙂
Useful to know. Cheers for that, Nick!
A pleasure! I hope you find them useful 🙂
Ill be checking them out for my next post! ?
Thanks, Nicholas for the great information. 🙂 — Suzanne
A pleasure! I hope you find them useful 🙂
Thanks for the info!!
You’re welcome! I hope you find them useful 🙂
I’m sure I will!!
Wow! Thanks for sharing.
A pleasure! I hope you find them useful 🙂
‘Tis a most excellent resource you are yourself, sir. 😀
Aw, you, thanks! I hope you find them useful 🙂
I went to Amazon to buy a Kindle version of your short stories. I click on that icon but it doesn’t register in my shopping cart. Tried several times.
That is so weird! May I gift you a copy as a small “I’m sorry for the trouble”?
W-o-w-z-a! Thanks, Nicholas. 🙂
A pleasure! I hope you find them useful 🙂
Indeed. I hope so too. Have you noticed some seem to have (share?) the same photos.
Hadn’t noticed that! I guess there are only so many free photos out there…
Awesome, Nicholas. A great list of resources.
Thanks! I hop you find them useful 🙂
Very useful sites. Thanks.
Glad you thought so 🙂