Websites with lots of pictures, photographs, etc
April 21, 2013 1:00 PM   Subscribe

I'm a student of Speech Language Pathology with a child client this quarter I'm doing a lot of picture description tasks with. I'm looking for websites/blogs/tumblrs/pinterest boards/etc with lots of pictures of varying complexity and familiarity.

I've been using a lot of google image searches but would prefer caches of pictures that I could just scroll through: looking for pictures of people doing things, scenes, actions, animals, etc. Drawings or photographs. Can be normal everyday things like grocery shopping, or less common things as well.

I'm particularly looking for pictures that show a normal scene with one weird detail (like, playing baseball. . . in space! or something) but am mostly just looking for libraries of images.

Thanks in advance!
posted by Ideal Impulse to Grab Bag (4 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Have you looked at the stock photo sites? They have catagories/filters which can narrow things down.
posted by Sophont at 1:55 PM on April 21, 2013


Best answer: The Library of Congress has a great Flickr stream.

Flickr Explore might lead you to interesting stuff too.
posted by heatherann at 2:15 PM on April 21, 2013


Best answer: I used to use pictures of this sort when teaching beginner ESL. It's tough to find ones online that aren't behind a paywall or tiny sample thumbnails from published books, but I did find an ESL teaching website with a number of free downloadable images that might be useful to you (warning: Word docs).
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 2:44 PM on April 21, 2013


Best answer: Just off the top of my head. As far as a weird detail in a normal scene, well that is something you would have to decide.

- The PDN Photo of the Day Archive goes back as far as 2008.
- Shorpy.Com is mostly historical, b/w photos of America. Quite a bit of it is not the standard popular stuff.
- Reuters has a photo slide show collection. Obvioiusly, current event oriented.
- The Sightseers Series has lots of pix of people at national parks. A bit dated but interesting.
posted by lampshade at 3:01 PM on April 21, 2013


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