my links: Free Stock Photos

Free Stock Photos

Stock photos are an essential part of web and graphic design. There are tons of stock photos agencies that offer high quality photos, however, the price is not always affordable especially when working on a tight budget or sometimes with no budget at all. The solution in this case is finding free stock photos something that isn’t always easy, in order to make this process easier I have compiled a list with sites that offer free stock photos. Enjoy

Stock Exchange (highly recommended)
Morguefile (highly recommended)
Image After
Free Photos Bank
OpenPhoto
BigFoto
USDA
NASA
NOAA
NPS
Earth from Space
FWS1
FWS2
Picture Station
Geek Philosopher
Free Images
Pixel Perfect Digital
FreeFoto
Image Base
Cepolina
Amazing Textures
Texture Warehouse
PDPhoto
Image Blowout
Piotrpix
Mandragora
Fotogenica
Mayang
Free Photo Station
Cromavista
Afflict
Creativity 103
The Photo Repository
Aarin Free Photo
Stockvault
Designpacks
Unprofound
Four Bees
Insect Images
Free media Goo
Burning Well
A digital Dreamer
Freestockphotos.com
Freewebpics
Lightmatter
Majestic Imagery
Triparalbum
Demny Onink
Twice Pix
AboutPixel
Woophy
Pixelquelle
Litetek
PIX
tOfz
Fontplay
Orangetrash
ArtFavor
ImageTemple
LogoDesignweb
Fotodatebank
Bajstock
Pixelbag
NWYH Stock Images (Thanks Richard)
PhotoCase (Thanks Ingo)
NPS Digital Image Index (Thanks Jersu)
Gimp-Savy (Thanks Jared)
DeviantArt

See this link also

http://www.nooti.com/design/free-stock-photos.php

Below are sites which offer free photos, but have difficult/confusing licensing terms, smaller galleries, lower quality imagery or are a bit of a pain to navigate through:

gl.microsoft.com - Tons of free photos and clipart to use with your MS Office software.

Geek Philosopher - Lots of free photos, but check the licensing page for information on how they can be used.

Pixel Perfect Digital - Over 4000 images in a variety of categories.

Pdphoto.org - Many photos in the public domain, but some are not -- be sure to read the licensing info for each photo.

FreeStockMagic.com - Small but nice collection of free photos.

FreeImages - Free imagery but use of photos requires a link back to the site.

FreeFoto.com - Some decent photos available for non-commercial use.

Aarin Free Photo - About 950 free photos, but require credit / backlinks for use.

Free-StockPhotos.com - Free photos, ok selection...a little bit of a pain to navigate.

Here’s another one:
http://www.photocase.com

Get Pixel at http://www.getpixel.net.

Another microstock photo library: