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If you plan on creating images for your social media or blog posts, having a list of your favorite stock photo sites can come in super handy.

A quick heads up that a few of the sites mentioned below may require you to sign up to the image creators email list to receive your free stock photos.

By signing up, you can be the first to hear about special deals on their paid photo packs and also be signed up for a few free weekly/monthly stock photos as well! Totally worth it, right?! 🙂

With that said, let’s dig in!

Related: How you can use stock photos to create beautiful pins

GENERAL STOCK PHOTO SITES

1. VisualHunt

Seriously one of my favorites! You can narrow down your search by license type, color, and relevancy. Plus they have over 354M photos in their library. So finding a new photo shouldn’t be too difficult! 🙂

2. KaboomPics

This site features fashion, nature, foodie, and architectural photos. You can use these images for personal & commercial use, so you don’t have to worry if you plan on using an image for something you’ll be putting up for sale.

3. Cupcake

High-quality nature, food, and city landscapes are the main categories on Cupcake. You can use these images for basically anything, and I just have to add that I LOVE their logo so much lol. It’s so cute!

4. StockSnap

With hundreds of new photos added weekly, StockSnap is one of my go-to sites for stock photos. They have an awesome search feature where you can view the most popular images, more recent and most commonly downloaded. These photos also fall under the CC0 license so you can use them for just about everything – personal or commercial!

5. FancyCrave

Awesome site for landscape and fashion shots. I do kinda wish they would incorporate a search feature, but they do have categories which can be helpful. On another note, you can receive 14 free stock photos every week if you decide to sign up for their newsletter. Yay!

6. CreativeVix

Lots of scenery and landscape shots, and an awesome search function that you can use to filter and find the perfect photo.

7. Minimography

If you’re looking for minimalistic shots, this site is perfect for you. I need say no more. Haha.

8. PicJumbo

Business, food, fashion, and nature shots are just a few of the categories PicJumbo has to offer. Really great site if you need some bright and colorful images.

9. Death To The Stock Photo

Sign up for their list to receive exotic, minimalistic, and beautiful free stock photos every month! 🙂

10. Unsplash

One of my favorites, and probably one of the most popular as well. There are pages upon pages of incredible stock photos for just about every category out there.

11. Pixabay

Also a popular go-to for many. This site hosts high-quality, unique stock photos, illustrations, and vectors.

12. Picography

Pictography has some beautiful landscape and city shots, that you can use in any way you’d like.

13. LifeofPix

This awesome site was made by LEEROY Creative Agency in Montreal. A few popular categories on LifeofPix are architecture, people, city, and animals.

14. Good Free Photos

This site hosts location specific images perfect for travel bloggers, and those who need some awesome landscape shots.

15. Jay Mantri

Stunning black & white shots and landscape image galore.

16. LittleVisuals

Sign up for their newsletter and receive 7 high-quality stock photos, or browse through their latest pics.

17. The Pic Pac

Lots of location-specific images here, so another great option for travel bloggers as well.

18. Mmtstock

Mmtstock includes bright, fun and colorful stock images available for both personal and commercial use.

19. Epicantus

On Epicantus, Daria shares high-quality object, animal, and landscape images.

20. DesignerPics

Great site for architecture, business, nature, people and object images!

FEMININE STOCK PHOTO SITES

21. IvoryMix

Sign up for access to a stock photo library with over 300 free photos! With a variety of color schemes and concepts, you’re bound to find the perfect photos for your design needs.

22. Wonderlass

If you need colorful, fun and stunning stock photos, be sure to sign up for 15 free photos from Allison at Wonderlass!

23. Helene In Between

Need some feminine, chic, and minimalistic shots? Get 15 free stock photos from Helene In Between.

24. Solopreneur Sidekick

Get 10 free business & lifestyle shots perfect for bloggers and online entrepreneurs! Definitely check these out if you’re brand colors include white, black and maroon.

25. Wonferfelle

Sign up to receive feminine stock photos every month, and also get 10 free photos you can use for social media and blog images when you sign up.

26. Creativetacos

Check out Creativetacos for minimalistic, feminine, flowery images to use on your social media + blog graphics. From the looks of it, most stock photos are available for both personal and commercial use, but be sure to double check yourself before using an image from a photo pack. Creativetacos also has other freebies like mockups, fonts, Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions if you’re interested. 🙂

27. Focus Fitness

Need some food, fitness or weight loss photos for your blog? Focus Fitness has 40 pages of amazing, high-quality stock photos you can use, just be sure to abide by the licensing. Excellent for health and fitness blogs looking for natural, professional photos.

That’s a wrap!

I hope you found this post helpful and can refer back to it when you’re looking for new images to incorporate into your blog + business images.

What are a few of your go to stock photo sites? And did you find any new sites from the list today? I’d love to know in the comments! 🙂