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"Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, a database of 11,146,958 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute."

" Searching 1,040,000 high quality images from Flickr"

" It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images... Be suprised! ... and check back here for more magic in the future."

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

" The Geograph Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it."

"About this site Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. We make good use of the flickr™ API, but aren't affiliated with flickr."

"Innovating image search Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures. "

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.

The metropolitan museum of art collection

"The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. "

DropMocks is the easiest way to create and share beautiful image galleries online.

asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.

A great guide which explains how to use and attribute  i,ages from a variety of cc sources.