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No Pumpkin Or Cat Silhouette Images, Please

Written by: womenslegacy
Published: October 6, 2014 -- Last Modified: October 6, 2014
24 Comments

I went scavenging at Pixabay.com for images to use on this blog this month, October, and quickly became bored with orange pumpkins,  cutout silhouettes of cats, and depictions of ugly crone witches.
So I found some images that are not unique or totally original, but that have a truth of season in them.
Foggy field.  With orange, but not smothering. I cropped.
autumn fog
A bench in golden light.  It captures the lonely, sadness that visits so many people in the fall.
autumn bench
Cat eyes.  Black cats get such a bad rap.
eyes
A room that just calls out for a seance.
candlelit room
Another dark foggy path through wooded land.
pines & fog
Too much orange sky but adding an alpha channel, and cutting most of the sky, makes the church silhouette all the more ominous.   spooky
Now please do not get me wrong, I loved making spooky Halloween cakes for my daughter’s class parties when she was little.  And expected was good for seasonal Girl Scout crafts when I was a leader.
One of the plus sides of being done nesting, I do not like the word empty or the phrase empty nester, is that I can observe the seasons as I like.  Art and photography for my blog is a great way to do it.  And with high quality public domain images readily available at Pixabay.com I, and other bloggers, do not need to spend tons on images for sites that do not make much if any income, and neither do we have to settle for tacky or low resolution clip art to stay within the law.  I am also uploading some images to the site for others to use.  And the folks that run the site actually have found a few of my photos of high enough quality to accept for use on the site.   I love cooperative, sharing economies.

Categories: Blogging & Writing, Graphics, How ToTags: blog, free image site, high quality, images, photographs, public domain

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  1. Kim Tackett

    October 6, 2014 at 7:02 am

    I love the photos you picked! Friends don’t let friends use bad clip art!

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      LOL Kim. No friends do lot let friends use bad clip art.

      Reply
  2. Lisa

    October 6, 2014 at 7:18 am

    Beautiful photos! I, too, love Pixabay. I visit and download a photo from there almost every single day. It’s my fave spot for my “good morning” photos for my blog’s Facebook page. And my go-to spot when my personal photos aren’t exactly right for a post.
    Happy to see you spreading the word!

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:21 pm

      I take pics constantly, but there are so many times when I just don’t have the right image!

      Reply
  3. Ellen Dolgen

    October 6, 2014 at 9:34 am

    I never thought about eliminating the word empty in nesting! Love that concept….so true- nothing empty about it!

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:19 pm

      I was successful in raising my kid and she is out on her own. This is now my time and there is nothing empty about my nest, home, life, schedule. Glad you agree with my assertion.

      Reply
  4. Donna Tagliaferri

    October 6, 2014 at 9:37 am

    I also hate the phrase empty nester…it feels like the nest was never full. And it was. Love your pictures, thank you for sharing them in such a beautiful way

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:18 pm

      I knew I wasn’t alone in my feelings about the “empty” nest! thanks!

      Reply
  5. Haralee

    October 6, 2014 at 9:41 am

    These are good images without the spookiness crazy of October. That said I am looking for a witch’s cake mold. Any ideas from your scouting days?

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:17 pm

      I know about witch’s hat cakes, but not the whole witch.

      Reply
  6. Janie Emaus

    October 6, 2014 at 10:13 am

    I loved the photo in the woods!

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      Misty woods just seem so Tolkein-esque… love them.

      Reply
  7. Mary

    October 6, 2014 at 11:16 am

    Love the photos you choose! I like the feeling the photos give me, more than a symbol of the season.

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:13 pm

      I just get lost in the photo hunting process. So many great ways to find legit blog images these days.

      Reply
  8. Ines Roe

    October 6, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    Great photos and the mood they set. Halloween is great by the photos you included say so much more

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:10 pm

      Images can be so evocative and that is what I usually go for. I am so glad there are sites like this.

      Reply
  9. Lois Alter Mark

    October 6, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    Great photos! I have to check out Pixabay because I’m so freaked out about using photos I didn’t take. I now take ridiculous photos just to make sure they’re mine!

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:08 pm

      I tend to find graphic designers on sites that I really like and use their stuff after I find out they really do produce tons of stuff and load unused items for old project for advertising.

      Reply
  10. Angela Weight

    October 6, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    I’m so glad to know about pixabay. I’m still new to adding graphics to my blog. So your post was a welcome help.

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 6, 2014 at 6:06 pm

      I used to use another service but got burned a few times so now I am really careful about images. I’m glad this helped!

      Reply
  11. Ruth Curran

    October 6, 2014 at 6:52 pm

    I believe that photos should set a tone and that tone can be whatever you want and need it to be. Funny but I always seem to want my fall and my spring photos to be representative of my mood and to capture that change, growth, cyclical thing…. You may use any of my photos anytime you like if any fit your mood!

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 8, 2014 at 1:50 pm

      Yes, mood is conveyed so much more easily with pics than words! 1000 to 1 I’ve heard. 🙂 And thank you for the generous offer! I may take you up on it.

      Reply
  12. WendysHat

    October 6, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    These are beautiful images. Thanks for the tip. I have not heard of this photo source before because I take my own pictures. I’ll have to share this info with others.

    Reply
    • Nancy Hill

      October 8, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      I too like to use my own images, but I’m just not that great of a photographer! Do share as it is a great source.

      Reply

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