Do you have trouble finding images online? Currently, I only know of two sites where I can get images online:

• Flickr Creative Commons, which I use almost exclusively;
• iStockPhoto, which I reserve for the sites where I don't publish a lot of content.

I think there's a great selection on both sites, but a lot of photos on Flickr aren't Creative Commons licensed (but you can see only the CC pics if you use the above link). And using iStockPhoto for every blog post would get expensive pretty quickly.

I give credit where credit's due - I'll always link to the author of a photo at the bottom of my posts. And I don't expect to get everything for free. But I'd really like to know of any other free image resources that have decent photos. I haven't found any besides the two I linked to above.

An image can bring a post to life. Unfortunately, sometimes I struggle to find an image that is available and relevant to my topic of choice. In some cases I've actually had to change my post and work it around the photo, just to make it fit the best image I could find. Maybe my topics aren't always suitable for images, but I often find a real lack of photos to choose from.

Do you have any recommendations? Where else can I find decent images for my blog posts? Where do you find yours? How valuable is a decent image - does it make a world of difference to your posts?

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