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Burgundy Snails by KeldBach on DeviantArt
Burgundy Snails by KeldBach on DeviantArt (link at bottom of post). Just one of the growing selection of interesting royalty-free images found on the Internet.

Big List of Royalty-Free Image Sources

For reference, here is a compilation of sources for royalty-free images to use in digital projects (websites, etc.).  Some I use often, some are to try.

Please note that some images will have restrictions such as a requirement to attribute the creator, link to a Creative Commons license, etc.

Also See:
Wikimedia Help: Public Domain Image Resources for a mind-boggling list of possible image sources, including many of those below.

General

Altphotos

British Library (Flickr)

Burst

FreePhotos.cc

Freepik

Freerange Stock

Internet Archive Book Images (Flickr)

Library and Archives Canada (Flickr)

Library of Congress

Little Visuals

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Morguefile

National Gallery of Art (USA)

New Old Stock

New York Public Library Digital Collections

Openverse

Pexels

Picjumbo

Picspree

Pixabay

Smithsonian (Flickr)

Stock Up

StockSnap.io

Unsplash

Wikimedia Commons

Clipart

Openclipart

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

(Source: University of Michigan document “DEIJ Open Image Banks“)

Disabled and Here

The Gender Spectrum Collection

Images of Empowerment

Nappy

The Noun Project: Redefining Women Icon Collection

PICNOI

Unsplash: AllGo – An App For Plus Size People

Women of Color in Tech (Flickr)

World Obesity Image Bank

Icons

iconmonstr

The Noun Project

Reshot

Maps

David Rumsey Map Collection

Bonus: Toronto Images

The City of Toronto (Flickr)

City of Toronto Archives

 

Photo: Burgundy Snails by KeldBack on DeviantArt used by Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Deed