"Free and Public Domain Photo & Image Providers" by Jerry Witt of Motion City

[Matthew Chan]

I wanted to share a very good blog post by Jerry Witt of Motion City, a long-time, valued ELI Community member and friend.

http://motioncity.com/news/free-and-public-domain-photo-and-image-providers

Jerry has been known for years at ELI as a "voice of reason". Jerry is well-informed and well-versed in subject matters he choose to write about.

Because I have chosen to largely stay away from 3rd-party imagery, I am not as informed as Jerry who has done the work and research to find legitimate sources of free imagery. 

The one plug I want to make that Jerry does not list in his post is CanStockPhoto.com.  I did my homework on them and while I have not yet purchased imagery from them, I am satisfied with my Q&A with them on my issues of concern. The most important being that they do not appear to be in the extortion letter business and they have a liberal policy and license of use.

Since Jerry supports Pond5, I think he will like CanStockPhoto as well.  I interviewed Pond5 and I found them agreeable to do business with.

[Jerry Witt (mcfilms)]

Hey Matthew,

Thanks for sharing my blog post. I share stuff infrequently and this was one that took me the better part of  day to put together. Sourcing affordable images is very challenging and I hope people find it helpful.

I will check out CanStockPhoto.com soon.

[Jerry Witt (mcfilms)]

I just came across another photo sharing site with gorgeous images:
https://unsplash.com/explore

[Canada Bob]

Any thoughts on:

https://www.pexels.com/
https://www.canva.com/

We are in the process of contracting with a company to help manage our online material and they said they would use images from those 2 sites.  I don't want to run into any infringement issues if they inadvertently use an image that is copyrighted.