I’m working on a project and hope this is okay to ask here! Could you recommend a place to find public domain or creative commons photos of leafs, etc., for tree identification. Bonus points if they have no background but that’s not a deal breaker. Having more trouble finding these than I thought! …

There are plenty of photos available under Creative Commons licenses on iNat. In fact, you can filter observations by license: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48227-Acer-macrophyllum/browse_photos?photo_license=cc-by Another place I’d try is Archive.org . There’s a huge collection of digitized boo…

Try Flickr also. Lots of images there are Creative Commons.

And of course, Wikimedia Commons. The largest repository of freely usable media (64 million files): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources list of lists of lists

If you use the image search feature at google.com you can use Advanced Search settings to screen images for Creative Common licenses.

Lots of good suggestions here. Another resource is https://www.forestryimages.org (mixture of licenses). Just remember there’s a difference between Creative Commons and Public Domain: most Creative Commons licenses require attributing (crediting) the original creator, and some prohibit commercial u…

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Erin_MA September 5, 2020, 7:19pm 3

Awesome! Thanks so much @murphyslab!

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