Need images for your blogposts or other purposes? There is a great collection of ‘free to use’ images at Stock-Unrestricted at DeviantArt.
The rules there state:
- Unrestricted Stock can be used for both personal and commercial projects.
- The user is not required to obtain permission to using the stock off site, or in DA prints.
- It cannot be sold as, or redistributed as, the original stock image.
- The crediting/notification is not required to use the stock.
The collection is divided into 24 categories or galleries:
- Featured
- People
- Body Parts
- Buildings
- Objects
- Animals
- Food
- Plants
- Landscapes Nature
- Places
- Application Resources
- Fractal Resources
- 3D Models
- Gore Blood and Dead stuff
- Textures
- Skies Clouds Weather
- Free Wallpapers
- Miscellaneous
- Premade Backgrounds
- Windows Doorways
- Arches Walls Steps
- Statues Monuments Cemeteries
- Transportation
- Technical Mechanical
Not everything there is of the quality you’d get paying money to a stock photo company, but it is worth a look for more incidentally useful visuals. It is also worth a look at DeviantArt’s Resources & Stock Images.
The wonderful work of archivists have preserved far more material than we usually see. Our goal here is to unearth and present some of the stuff we never saw in school.