National Park Service

National Park service has thousands of free photos. This site provides links to public domain digital images of many sites, including national parks, monuments, historic sites and related areas. Most Images are available for download in JPEG and Photo CD or TIFF format. All images posted on this site are free, and may be used without a copyright release from the National Park Service. Check it out!

Wow! -Graphic Art

Check this site out if you want an idea of how good graphic art gets!

There is so much inspiration with illustrations, artwork, advertising, photography, logos and more. Hundreds of fantastic images that won’t fail to inspire and motivate you to do better. visit

Spoon Graphics

If you are looking for art and design inspiration or Illustrator tutorials then this is a very good place to start. The tutorials are well written and useful and cover basic to advanced concepts.
Site layout is simple and effective and topics are varied but good quality. visit

Action Photography – Tips

When you’re out shooting action shots make sure that you don’t always have the subject in the middle of the frame. Take your time in placing the subject in the right place and your pictures will instantly improve.

Plan your position in advance, don’t just turn up for an event expecting to be in the right place. Look where the subject will be when you want to take the picture. Work out where the sun will be at the time of shooting. Do you want the subject to be well lit (sun in front or side) or do you want to take silhouette style shots (subject in between you and the sun).

Make sure you use the surroundings so that the action leads your eye into and out of the picture. Shoot, from different angles, some low, some high shots and from different distances. In other words don’t shoot every picture from the same position

pictures courtesy of www.bigfoto.com

Google Artists Themes

I don’t know if many people know about this but I have just discovered Google Artist Themes. here

Just click on this link and you can select whatever theme you like and almost instantly the headers in Google change to one of the set you have selected. Even better than that each time you open Google it displays a different picture for the selected set.

They certainly liven up an otherwise basic screen display and no doubt it won’t be long until there are third party sets available.

A few free illustrations

I don’t know if these are useful to anyone but if you want to use them for any purpose whatsoever then feel free to do so. Click on the image below which will open a larger version. You can then right click and choose …save as ..

They could be used as part of a logo.

Let me know if they are useful and maybe I will add a few each week ….enjoy.

Adhemas Batista – illustrations

If you are looking for graphic inspiration then look no further than here. The site is full of excellent artwork by Brazillian, Adhemas Batista da Silva who lives and works in New York.

He has carried out work for some of the major companies in the world including Pepsi, Volkswagen, Whiskas and Absolut Vodka.

His artwork is very unique and very colorful and it is easy to see why he has won many major awards over the past few years.

Enough ramblin -just take a look

National Photo Company Collection

Inside the website of The Library of Congress lies ‘the prints and photographs collections’ There you will find over 13 million unique images, including photographs, posters, prints, drawings and engineering and architectural drawings. The images are particularly useful in documentation of the history of the US, lives, achievements and interests of the American people. There are also many International images in the collection.

There are some very complicated terms of use but basically the less commercial the use the better chance of free use. Ie educational purpose = no problem, sell as stock images=get permission

click here to visit the search engine for the site

The Cans Festival – London?

 

Graffiti guru, Banksy opened “…the biggest exhibition of graffiti art”, in a railway tunnel close to Waterloo station, London.

“The Cans Festival”, a twist on the “Cannes Festival” will display works by artists from around the globe, and visitors are invited to participate. There are a few rules that have to be adhered to if you want to join in and they can be seen on the organisers web site at http://www.thecansfestival.com/

Banksy is alledged to have contibuted several of his works to the festival. His work now fetches many thousands of pounds when auctioned and have several famous and wealthy owners around the world.

Totally cost free graphics

I have found a really good site where there are thousands of free images that can be downloaded very easily and without any sign up or more importantly NO COST!

There are free photos, free illustrations, free textures, free backgrounds, free fractals and much more

I have downloaded hundreds of free images already and it really is child’s play.

All of the images on the site are royalty free as well as being cost free

Click on free images to visit the the site. I know you won’t be disappointed!