Fellow Steemians, no controversy required you can use any of these images to your hearts content.

 Beautiful images and art to peruse and use for free. I created this list. It is not a copy and paste. The links are provided so you can easily find the websites I mention. Please make use of this work.

(example image from splitshire)

Hello fellow Steemians,Recently there has been controversy surrounding fair use and copyrite infringement. Things are up in the air with a great debate and many very valid viewpoints being shared. I am not here to settle the debate. I love you all.

I have compiled some links to websites with databases of high quality images you can FREELY use on your blog posts, many of these DO NOT even require you give credit for anything, to anyone.

Make Steem Dollars, make money without out worry!

Typically the art works are now in the public domain or the artist has graciously offered the images for free for all to enjoy and use.

You may share freely. EVEN FOR BUSINESS! $$$

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------https://pixabay.com//

• NEW ADDITION! Check out this great site recommended in the comments by fellow Steemian shortcut , thanks shortcut!
• Images and Videos! "All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required. -pixabay.com"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------https://stocksnap.io/

• All photos are available for free and NOT subject to any copywrite restrictions at ALL.
• easy to use interface
• tons of available quality pictures, my search for "tree" obtained 1771 results

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://www.1millionfreepictures.com/

• My search for tree returned some great images, the result count was not listed
• all images are free for commercial and private use

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://www.splitshire.com/about/

• AWESOME Free images!!
• Taken by one Italian dude.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------https://www.pexels.com/

• The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use.
• You can modify, copy and distribute the photos.
• All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So that attribution is not required.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://blackwhite.io/Free awesome B&W Photography, not a huge amount, but very pretty stuff. The bullets below are taken directly from their site!

• Welcome on our black and white site.
• We are a small team hwo serve thousands of free high quality black and white photos with the creative commons zero license.
• All photos on black white are free for personal and commercial use, without asking for attributions.
• Do what ever you want.

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https://freeimages.red/A GERMAIN Site dedicated to free imagesFrom their site

• Freeimages.red was founded in 2015 and has made it his goal to be the address in network for free and high resolution pictures and vectors.
• The information published on Freeimages.red images linked with the Public Domain CC0 license, which means that all the images may be used for private and for commercial purposes
• for free and without any names.
• Searching for tree returned 293 images

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FLICKR

https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=&license=4%2C5%2C6%2C9%2C10

• Of course use Flickr and set the filter for "Commercial License"
• (Not using the filter correctly could get you in trouble)
• searching for tree with the filter applied still returned well over 2 MILLION results (some are crap, some are truly great)


(make sure "commercial use" is selected)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------That is all the time I have for now. There are many many more sites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wikipedia is good next place to start

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

My Blog page https://steemit.com/@darkb4dawn

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