When it comes to making your blog or business website look professional, quality photos are a must. While you might have heard the advice to “take your own photos”, many of us don’t have the right equipment, knowledge, or skills needed to capture the image we desire. That’s where websites offering free stock photos come into play.

The term “free, high-quality stock photos” used to be an oxymoron because either you paid for stock photos, or you sacrificed quality in order to spare your wallet.

Fortunately, that’s no longer the case.

Below, I’ve rounded up 26 of the best sites for you to get free, high-quality stock photos that are beautiful, high-resolution, and are guaranteed to portray your message or brand, perfectly.

The first list is a roundup of websites that provide hundreds of free stock photos with no sign up or email required. These websites have a huge variety of both styled stock photos, landscape stock photos, and everything in between.

The second list is a roundup of the best free stock photo sites that require a subscription or email sign up to receive beautiful, styled stock photos delivered straight to your inbox. They’re still free, they just require a little extra work to get started.

Free Stock Photo Sites That Don’t Require a Subscription

1. Pixabay

What’s great about Pixabay is there’s no limit to how many photos you can download. Even better, the sky is the limit when it comes to categories of photos you can find. From styled flat lays to candids and everything in between, you’ll likely find what you’re looking for at Pixabay.

2. Unsplash

Unsplash is one of my personal favorite websites to find free stock photos. Similar to Pixabay, you can find high-resolution photos in practically any category and the downloads are limitless.

3. Pexels

I love Pexels for finding high quality stock photos. The colors are beautiful, the photo categories are diverse, and once again the downloads are limitless. Enjoy!

4. Foodiesfeed

If you have a food blog or promote healthy eating on Instagram, Foodiesfeed is perfect for you. Food photography can be extremely difficult to nail but Foodiesfeed takes care of that for you. Find beautifully photographed food photos on Foodiesfeed for free.

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5. Styled Stock

Styled Stock is the perfect website for lifestyle, beauty, boss babe, or fashion bloggers who want feminine and fun, styled stock photos for free. The best part about Styled Stock is you don’t have to sign up to download any of the beautifully styled photos.

6. Negative Space

Negative Space boasts a large variety of stock photos that will compliment any brand design or blog post. There are feminine flat lays, travel blog worthy photos, and even masculine business shots. Negative Space will meet any blogger or business owners photography needs.

7. Barn Images

While Barn Images doesn’t have as large of a quantity of stock photos as some of the above websites, the quality of photos is incomparable. If you love outdoor photography, Barn Images has what you’re looking for.

8. Kaboom Pics

Kaboom Pics has stock photos that are instagram worthy all the way. Whether you fancy styled feminine photos or lean towards hipster fashion, Kaboom Pics has what you’re looking for to help you brand your blog or business.

9. Stock Snap

Stock Snap offers a wide variety of stock photos to match whatever the theme of your business or blog post. Some photos are bright and colorful, others are dark and edgy. The options are endless.

10. Life of Pix

The variety of high quality stock photos on Life of Pix is vast. One photo depicts a beautifully photographed bundt cake and the next is a stunning picture of a starry night. You never know what you might find on Life of Pix, but there’s a good chance you’ll find the perfect photo for your blog or business.

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11. Magdeleine

Magdeleine produces a new free high quality photo every day. You’ll never know what you’ll get but it’s sure to be high quality, beautiful, and free!

12. picXclicX

Jill Levenhagen has a creative variety of free stock photos available for download. Check out her page to find the photos you’re looking for that will complete your blog posts or business website.

13. Picography

You’ll find gorgeous free photos to use at Picography. They aren’t your usual styled stock photos but favor more towards unique scenes and outdoor landscapes.

14. Cupcake

While the name may sound feminine, Cupcake offers more masculine and gender neutral looking photos that may be a better compliment to your blog or website that’s geared toward both genders. While many free styled stock photos are designed to look feminine, its nice to find a stock photo website that provides photos that any blog could use no matter who the audience is.

15. Burst

Burst is fantastic because all of their free stock photos are organized into categories so you can easily find what you’re looking for. A few of the popular categories included are business, family, colorful, makeup, flatlay, textures, jewelry, love, city, office and abstract.

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16. Death To Stock

Death To Stock’s mission is to continually provide it’s consumers with quality stock photos that meet all of their expectations completely free of charge. Fresh photo content provided for you at no cost? Yes please.

17. Helene In Between

Helene offers 15 beautiful feminine styled stock photos from her blog. All you have to do in return is give them a share so more people can use and enjoy her beautiful photos.

18. Solopreneur Sidekick

Louise nails it with her 10 free stock photos that are perfect for any boss babe. If you’re a fan of coffee and all things pretty, these photos will be perfect for your business or blog.

Free Stock Photo Sites That Do Require a Subscription

19. Rekita Nicole

Rekita provides 11 free stunning stock photos for anyone to use with the agreement that you’ll credit her on your blog post or instagram when you use her photos.

20. She Bold

She Bold couldn’t be a better name for these bright photos that pop with feminine color. Download 100+ free stock photos when you sign up with your email.

21. Haute Stock

Are you interested in a free sample pack of beautifully styled stock photos? Haute Stock’s got your back.

22. A Prettier Web

A Prettier Web will give you 7 free styled stock photos in exchange for your email. These photos are to DIE FOR.

23. Wonderlass

Do you love florals, flat lays, and all things girly? Then you’ll love Wonderlass’s 15 free styled images. They’ll arrive in your inbox with just a quick sign up with your email.

24. Profit Planner

90+ free styled feminine stock photos? Somebody pinch me! Market Beautifully takes the cake in my book for hooking their readers up! All you have to do is sign up with your email and the photos are yours.

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25. Fancy Crave

How would you feel if I told you you’ll be receiving 14 free feminine styled stock photos straight to your inbox WEEKLY? Yeah, I’d be a little giddy too. But lucky for you, it’s about to happen! Just sign up with your email and this dream will come true.

26. Ivory Mix

Okay, remember how excited we were about those 90+ free stock photos? How about 300+ free styled stock photos? Yep, I’m being serious. Simply sign up with your email and they’re yours.

I hope you found this blog post helpful. Now you have many options to find the best free stock photos around for your blog or business website.

My advice is to pick your top 5 favorites and bookmark them for easy access any time you need the perfect free stock photo. Some of them circulate duplicates since they’re free after all, so there is no sense spending hours sifting through all 26 sites trying to find the perfect one.

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