Using Flickr to find great photographs for your blog

Mar 01, 2008

Photographs can increase the quality of your written content manifolds. Putting photographs doesn’t mean even lousy text will sound good, but it definitely adds value to the already written, good content.

But using images costs money. Many times I have used iStockPhoto to find images and illustrations for my various blogs and they have cost me anywhere between $1-$4. For once or twice a week it doesn’t sound like much, but if you need to use images almost everyday, or even multiple times in a day, it can turn out to be a nagging expense. Alternative?

The good old Flickr. You can find some great photographs on Flickr. All you have to do is link back to the user who owns the photographs. But you have to be careful while using the photographs from the photo-sharing website; not all photographs can be shared. Skellie tells you how to leverage the vast resource of Flickr without getting into copyright infringement troubles.

Technosailor too has a nice post on the topic of using images available on the Web legally.