After the initial inspiration for starting off a Blog post, what drives the "meat" of your post?
I find that having a good selection of related images, serves as additional fodder, and stirs up appropriate 'filler" sentences and more ideas to make a satisfying blog post.
It's debatable whether the actual topics that I write about are blog worthy enough :) , as I can see from the number of comments i (don't) receive, and from the fact that I still don't have a featured post yet! .. ;)
But getting back to the subject of this post...
Where do you get the right images from? You cant just copy and paste any images, as that is not ethical nor legal.
And simply giving credit to the owner of a photograph of illustration, may not always satisfy usage licenses.
I stick with getting my images for both, my website, and my blogs, by buying royalty free images from Fotolia
I like the straight forward way they list out the different scenarios you can use the images in, for your own work, and the associated license fee.
The good thing is, since I'm using most of the images from their huge stock, for webpages and blogposts, I have never had to pay more than a Dollar an image!
I made a small screen grab of their rates from their website (as on jan14th, 2008)
This shows the various media platforms you can use the images on, and at mostly US$1 per image, most of my real estate related images on my other blog now come from here.
This means for $1, I can use an image on my blog, website, flyer, and press releases too!
So, if you are at a loss for that "perfect" image to complement your blog post, or your designing a Property Flyer, or any kind of written material, search the Fotolia picture base.
Chances are the images will inspire or even re-direct you with a fresh line of thought to complete your assignment without the time consuming google search for the appropriate images!
Regards,
Clyde
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