Hey everyone, just found this site and since all the photos are the work of the federal government they are copyright free. This link is from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service site and they have some great photos on there which you can search for.
All works of the federal government are copyright free so if anyone comes across any other gov. sites with pictures please let us know!
Hi, thanks for sharing the information. This will certainly help us to make better cards.
cheers
Thank you,
really useful link.
I would like to highlight 2 free resources sites
have fun!
Thanks, I gave you both some karma. Some sites dont make it easy to ascertain if the images are copy-right free or not, but these do!
Thanks for the sites. They look great. Now I can add more to my book making process for our ministry.
I like to use Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page It has 4,444,447 freely usable media files that are copyright free.
great sites! it’s not easy to find them 
ed.
Wonderful sites! Thank you all for sharing them with us! I just visited www.imageafter.com. They even offer the option to search for a picture based on color! I think it is going to be a lot of fun to use!
Great work!
all are freely usable?
ed.
Yes, I also do some online freelance writing and use these images all the time. Check it out.
after every photo there is a paragraph on licensing. Some are released to public domain (those are totally free), others have a different copy-left… license which I don’t understand fully but seems you could use them if you give the author the credit. How would you do it in LR?
hi Nikolett,
I think you have to give them the credit when you use them for commercial purposes. If you are going to use the photos to teach your your baby to read … i don;t think you need to write the name of the author.
Alma