1. Unsplash.com

Beloved by designers for its high impact splash page images, Unsplash has built quite a solid reputation for itself. They have free high res photos you can use for any personal or commercial projects. It’s rich with high impact images that make memorable landing pages.

2. Pexels.com

Similar to Stocksnap with 100 new photos being added daily. Search by keywords or select by category. And like Stocksnap you can download by size or create a custom size.

3. PIKWIZARD

Over 100,000 completely free images on the site, over 20,000 of those are exclusive to Pikwizard. They are also adding new images to their library daily with the ultimate goal to reach over 1 million images. There are lots of pictures of people, which tend to be rare in free stock photo sites.  All images are free to use without attribution.

If you don’t have PhotoShop you can create Inspiring Designs in Minutes with their Design Wizard – easy to use online graphic design software.

4. Pixabay.com

Free Photos, Free Illustrations as well as Free HD Videos! Select the size you want, and no account needed.

5. Stocksnap.Io

You can search by keywords or browse by popular categories. Order by date, trending, views etc.

6. Gratisography.com

Highly original photos that have an impact. There are a few copyright restrictions but they seem pretty fair to me, and aside from those you can use the photos for personal and commercial projects.

7. Magdeleine.co

A free handpicked high resolution image added every day. You can browse by photographer or use “EXPLORE” to type in your search terms or select by category.

8. Splitshire.com

Easy to follow layout with the standard search option, multiple categories including multiple blurred backgrounds.

9. re:splashed

Free HD images for your projects. Currently no category search but there is the standard keyword search and browse functions.

10. Good Free Photos

This large public domain photo site has over 17,000 photos categorized mainly by location. The site specializes in photos of state parks, national parks, national landmarks, and historical sites. They also have business, tech, animal, plant, and food photos. All photos are free to use for any purpose. Many photos on the site were taken by photographer Yinan Chen who runs the site, and he also takes requests for specific photos.

Please let me know in the comments if I have missed any of your favourite sources so I can consider them for inclusion on this post. Thanks!

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Neil Gaiman – Inspirational Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012

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Not only is the dream outdated but its costing me a bomb in taxes just to retain my greencard. Taxes that are primarily funding wars and helping the government to further spy on and enslave us. In fact since I got Europe out the way years ago when I lived in England and since I’ve lived in the US a bunch already, the only countries Im really interested in visiting are mostly countries that welcome my previously-thought-to-be-crappy South African passport. Countries I’ll some time visit like Thailand, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Cuba, Russia, Belize, various tropical islands, Peru, Ecuador, India, Morocco… and yes there are EU countries that I’d like to visit to see the Aurora Borealis and stuff like that, but really I dont want to LIVE anywhere that cold or anywhere close to where its getting so crammed or scarily facist, so I dont need an EU passport anyway. Just the occasional travel visa.

If I can let go of my self-brainwashing that having US citizenship is equal to some kind of safety, some kind of belonging somewhere, then by embracing the idea of using my old SA passport and paying for visas once in a while I become a global citizen, and I’m no longer enslaved. No longer have to pay taxes. No longer resident anywhere. I may as well face it, for a few years now I haven’t lived anywhere long enough to be resident of anywhere anyway. I’m always on the move. South Africa stopped asking me for taxes 13 years ago when I left. The USA is the only country in the world that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income no matter where they are resident or for how long. If I become a US Citizen, I will be the PROPERTY of the USA.

If you’re a freelancer or a permanent tourist, even if you are American and want to be free of paying taxes you should probably check this out so you can figure out your escape plan! IT’S SO DOABLE!!! And completely legal. Tons of people got out of the system donkeys years ago and haven’t regretted it a single day.

I want to go out to Thailand at some point (its paradise and its dirt cheap!!) and may decide to live there for a while. Like South Africa, there’s no income tax payable for non-resident citizens earning abroad. But if that doesn’t happen, Im ok with only having one passport. Sure I have to get visas a lot which can be a pain, but my passport is still a document I can travel with. There’s a big world to explore and so far these ties to the US have held me back from staying longer in incredible countries like Nicaragua for fear of losing my greencard and cost me more in taxes than I can even afford. In fact my credit card debt every year is exactly the same as what I’m paying in taxes that year. Funny that… it’s a perfect slavery system with willing slaves. The harder we work to pay off our cards and taxes, the more we are taxed and the further we become enslaved. All of this funding a quite-remarkable-and-so-clever-its-almost-admirable war machine.

It’s crazy how long its taken me to come around to this idea. Fear of the unknown was the only thing standing in the way between me and freedom.