https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ZG0ku3uC8
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High Quality Royalty Free Stock Photos
Getting your hands on quality images is pretty easy to do, there’s lots of stock photography providers if you’re willing to pay for them. If however you’re working on a tight budget or bootstrapping, supply is much more limited, and generally the quality of free images is poor, unless you’re happy with cheesy amateurish photos. I would recommend avoiding the use of poor quality imagery with any of your work as this reflects poorly on you and your business.
So if you’re looking for images for a blog post, or presentation and you don’t want to pay a penny, i have some good news for you. Below are six sites that provide high quality royalty free photos for FREE, check them out for yourself. The image at the top of this blog post is from one of the sites, so you get a sense of what’s on offer.
Pixabay is site I stumbled upon, try to download a couple of images, the higher resolution images require you to create an account, but the lower resolution images 1920 x 1280 can be downloaded without an account. Some of the images are very good. Images are “Free for commercial use” and “No attribution required”.
Gratisography – free use as you please, high resolution pictures for personal and commercial projects. Just click on your selection and download the high resolution version. New pictures added weekly. No copyright restrictions.
ISO Republic stock photography provides high quality, free photos for creatives covering architecture, nature, people, textrues, urban and more. It’s aimed at designers and developers who don’t have the budget for quality photos.
Magdeleine is a photo gallery for your inspiration. Magdeleine offer a daily pick and feature high resolution pictures
New Old Stock – Vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions
PicJumbo – Totally free photos for your commercial and personal work. Only limitations include redistributing and selling
Stocksnap.io – Beautiful free stock photos with hundreds added weekly. No attribution required either.
Gutenberg,org – Public domain – offers over 49,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. Many of which are free from copyright (in USA). As public domain you can repackage this content in any number of ways to create your own products (check copyright law in your country first)
ulib.org Public domain with lots of free content
StockSnap – they offer beautiful, high quality stock photos for just about any use you can think of.
Pexels – Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages.
Unsplash – Probably the best known of the free stock sites.
Burst – Burst was launched by Shopify to help new businesses find quality images for their marketing.
Foodiesfeed – Looking for high quality, mouth watering food photography, Foodiesfeed is where it’s at.
kaboompics – Kaboompics is one of the most popular sources of free images for lifestyle, interior design and specialised bloggers in World.
Beauty Quotes
“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others”
– Mandy Hale
“Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.”
– Mandy Hale
“Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear”
– Taylor Swift
“Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.”
– Harshit Walia
“If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.”
– David Walsh
“Inner beauty never gets older”
– Unknown
“A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.”
– Vivica Fox
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
– Confucius
“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”
– John Ray
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
– Francis Bacon
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
– Anne Frank
“The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”
– Chanakya
“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”
– Rosalind Russell
“For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.”
– Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
– Aldous Huxley
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
– Saint Augustine
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
– H. G. Wells
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
– Emily Dickinson
“To love beauty is to see light.”
– Victor Hugo
“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
– Maria Mitchell
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
– George Meredith
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
– Aristotle
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
– Ovid
“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.”
– Dante Alighieri
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
– Albert Einstein
“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.”
– David Byrne
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
– Jean Anouilh
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
– Charles Lamb
“The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.”
– Joan Collins
“Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?”
– Clara Schumann
“Integrity reveals beauty.”
– Thomas Leonard
Creative Genius
I admire any kind of creative talent, it’s what adds texture to life in my opinion. The creative genius of some individuals just blows me away with their obvious dedicate to perfect their craft. One such person I recently came across is Heather Rooney who is just an amazing artist, check out her Youtube channel by following the link in her name. This is just a taster of the amazing work she does.
This is Heather’s tribute to the late, great, Robin Williams using Prismacolor colored pencil drawing and recorded using time lapse photography. Truly inspirational to watch the image created in front of our eyes, I am sure you’ll agree.
Funny Pets – you got to love ’em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7oQletFbc
Check out this video featuring some really funny pets. some great characters amongst them. We love pets here at Mike Turner Photography and get the chance take many pet photoshoots. Great to capture the characters of each of the pets, each with their own personalities. All different sizes and shapes mostly cats and dogs, but all great fun, so check it out and enjoy.
