Image credit:Little Photographer by Jiri HodanYou just can't run a blog or website these days without pictures. We live in a world dominated by visual media. So much of it is copyright protected and commercially expensive. But some of it is not.

Public Domain refers to material that is 'publicly available' and not restricted by copyrights. There are many stock photography websites from which you can license photographs, some of them at quite reasonable rates. There are also sites that provide royalty-free stock images under public domain or Creative Commons licenses. The best of them do exactly the same as the commercial sites, including browsing or searching by categories and tags.

Here's a run-down of some of the free stock images resources we use. Read more of this post