Top 75 "Free" Photo sites and Top 45 Photo Stock sites

Ever wondered , while browsing people's blogs, where they are getting their images from? Look no further for we've amassed a giant list of these kinds of sites. Browsing people's blogs this morning got me to the realization that most are using google images. For those of you who are just taking images from the net you must know about copyright laws. But that's another post. For now i'd rather you use the following sites to get images which are truly free* without concern. stay tuned for another day! Here now are those sites in no particular order. 

Top 75 Free Photo sites

1. Stockcache
2. Bigfoto 
3. ilovefreephoto
4. Cromavista
5. Yotophoto
6. Pixelperfectdigital
7. Stockvault
8. Burning Well
9. Unprofound
10. Diewie Design
11. Pix
12. Woophy
13. Freshpics          
14. Microshots
15. Ancestryimages 
16. Aaron Free photos
17. Creativity103
18. Rutmane 
19. freephotos.com
20. Gimp-savvy
21. freephotos.org
22. Photobucket
23. Diwiedesign
24. yotophoto (down?
25. Free-stockphotos.com
26. Image Temple
27. Kavewall
28. OneOdDude
29. Open Stock Photography
30. font play
31. Stockcache
32. Geek Philosopher
33. Free pixels
34. Imageafter
35. Designpacks
36. freephotos.com
37. DHD Multimedia
38. Vintage Pixels
39. Cepolina
40. Clipmarks
41. From old books
42. Four Bees
43. freeimages.co.uk
44. AMG Media Works
45. Studio 25
46. Free Media Goo
47. Morgue File
48. Twicepix
49. Barry's free photos
50. Public Domain photos
51. Image blowout
52. Creative Commons
53. Amazing textures
54. animation factory
55. Tripalbum
56. Texture Warehouse
57. Tofz
58. Lightmatter
59. Photogen
60. Vintage Pixels
61. ZurbPhotos
62. Graphicsarena
63. PD Photo
64. Amydgela
65. DexHaus
66. digital dreamer
67. Visipix
68. Artfavor
69. BajStock
70. Freeimages.com
71. NYPL Digital Gallery
72. Pixelio
73. Abstract Influence
74. Image Orchid
75. Photo Rack

The following stock sites are not 100% free, they require signing up and paying a small fee for low res pictures. There are exceptions, and those fall in an inbetween category but are not guaranteed to be totally free without copyright infringement issues. It's very important to read the fine text in the sites below. If using a stock photography site, we recommend using flickr. Conversely if looking for a larger option to share photos with others then Flickr + a creative commons license is the next best step.

Top 50 Free Stock Photo sites * 

1. Stock.Xchang 
2. Openphoto 
3. Texture Warehouse
4. Free Photo Bank 
5. PicFindr 
6. Kavewall 
7. Aboutpixel 
8. visipix 
9. ImageBase 
10. Openstock
11. Dreamstime
12. Aarin Free Photo
13. Graphic Arena
14. Woophy 
15. Fpnet
16. Turbo Photo
17. USDA
18. Creating Online
19. Photogen
20. Pixel Perfect Digital
21. Vintage Pixels 
22. Pix
23. Sweet Stock Photo
24. Web Photo Smart
25. Morguefile
26. Unprofound
27. Image*After 
28. Bigfoto
29. Unprofound 
30. Studio.25
31. Open Photo
32. PD Photo
33. burningwell
34. Cepolina Photo
35. fontplay
36. Freefoto
37. Stockvault
38. Barry's free Photos
39. Design Packs
40. NOAA Photo Library
41. Amazing Textures
42. Amygdela's Atmosphere
43. Freerange
44. Free Digital Photos
45. Everystockphoto
46. Photocase

The following sites can be free when properly used.

• flickr (w/creative commons)
  
• Deviant Art (stock gallery only, this link)
• Photobucket **
  

Free Clipart/graphics/gifs (thanks in part to Brad)

1. Free Animated Gifs
2. Free Graphics
   
3. Free Clipart
   
4. Free Web/Print Designs
5. Free Abstracts
6. Free Book Scan Pics

Best site to host your own photo gallery

• Smugmug
  

Some may still find disclaimers pertaining to non-commercial only use notices. (very few) You can still use any of these pictures for blogging purposes on Active Rain. 

For Sally Cheeseman: Hear.org

Note: We decided to make this a top 75 list and move the clipart sites to a seperate post. So as we explained to linda below, this list which was originally comprised of many different types of free graphic sites( 100 of them, before an AR error erased my entire list and we forgot to save it) will now instead focus primarily on free photo download sites, otherwise known as a non-photographer's mecca.

We thought we should mention the differences in these sites as compared to sites such as istockphoto.com. You rarely have to pay truly free sites and when you do it's merely for high resolution images. These sites often ask for donations instead and rely on advertisements to stay afloat. Pictures are oftentimes at original resolutions (5-8megapixel camera or better) so you already get your money's worth.

Note to self: rank these in order of best to worst (this will take a year folks, don't hold your breath, it comes when we went through them all)

Final Update:  Thanks to all those who have taken the time to reference to this, we did it for you so take advantage of it.