If you have trouble finding images for your blog posts, there is a ‘new’ place out there, EveryStockPhoto.com/ – and its source may surprise you.

It actually uses the content available from ALL the image sites out there, and gathers the details into one easy to use interface.

Traditionally, when you need an image, one source has been various photo sites with Creative Commons licenses. For example, browsing Flickr, you might see a photo that you can use if you attribute to the author.

However, while good in theory, there are problems: the vast amount of images out there, and no guarantee that everything you look at is available to use. Plus, the effort of wading through them all is oftentimes too much to go ahead an do it.

Enter EveryStiockPhoto, which bills itself as a search engine for photos. It searches the other sites for you, and gathers the images you can use on your sites (with appropriate licensing, such as attribution). Also, you can join and then help index the images by captioning each one.

The benefit is access to photos in one place, and a source of images suitable for your blog – like the purrfect image used here!

The February ActiveBlogging Report explains how this using site can help with your productivity, and also includes a collection of similar links to timesaving productivity tools and software.