Where to look for images for your blog?

So you're a writer, right? You're also not a photographer.

You've come across numerous advice when looking for the finest thumbnails and photographs for your blog posts and articles, but they all seem to imply that the best approach to make your posts look appealing is to utilise stock photos.

Sites such as Unsplash, Pexels, and others. What's more, you know what? That's OK. I mean, some of the photographs are of decent quality, and you won't be infringing on anyone's rights. They're something I use frequently as well.

Things, however, happen...secondary things, but things nonetheless. For example, if a novice content developer searches for photographs in this manner, they will almost certainly find really appealing photos on the first two pages of their results. What's more, guess what? All of the other new writers are doing the same thing, searching and selecting photographs of a toddler holding a microphone, a joyful person in a red sweater, and so on, to create a slew of stories.

There's nothing wrong with your stories looking like everyone else's if you don't mind their looking like everyone else's. Set out on your journey. But what if you really want to stand out? Or can you locate something more valuable for your articles while staying inside the bounds of copyright laws?

Public Domain Art

All creative works for which there are no exclusive intellectual property rights are included in the public domain. Those rights may have been lost, forfeited, openly surrendered, or completely nullified.

Because they were created before copyright was established or because their copyright term has elapsed, works by William Shakespeare, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci, and Georges Méliès, for example, are in the public domain.

Usage of a work is referred to as "under licence" or "with permission" rather than "public domain" when the creator retains residual rights.

The world's finest art masterpieces are housed in museums. Many of these treasures are open to the general public. Despite the fact that these works of art should be accessible to the general public and used by them, museums have restricted access to high-resolution copies.

Many museums, especially in the United States, are, nevertheless, rapidly providing a large number of works to "Open Access." That is, the public can build upon, edit, merge into other projects, reuse, and disseminate as freely as possible in any form and for any purpose, including commercial gain, without fear of infringement claims.

Some of these museums are:

• Smithsonian Institution
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
• National Gallery of Art
• MoMa UK
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Art Institute of Chicago

You may search for public domain art directly on their websites, or check into a stock photo source that has "curated" a selection of public domain images. In fact, all of the photos I'm using today come from RawPixel's Public Domain page. Every image includes the creator and description of the piece, as well as the museum from where it came from.

Reasons to utilise art instead of stock images include the following:

• Disseminate art and information
• Use something unique to set yourself out from the crowd.
• Look wiser than you are (I'm referring to myself here). This isn't to suggest that stock photographs aren't art; the terminology I used in the subheadings was only for the sake of differentiation.

Everything in civilisation is based on knowledge. It's always there, even if it's not always noticed. This data is utilised for a wide range of activities, including creation, experimentation, and analysis, to name a few. As a result, it's clear to see why it's so important to keep learning about art and art history.