Best places to find photos for your wellness website: free & paid options
At the beginning of every website design project, I have a “photos” conversation between with my client. High-quality, professionally taken photos can make or break your website. It doesn’t matter how well the design is, the photos will tie it all together. And many times, it is the photos that tell the story.
I ALWAYS recommend my clients to invest in professional photos of them taken by a local photographer (quick shout-out to the amazing David and Meivys power dual who took my photos for this website - they are amazing!). But I also know we might need some extra stock photography to help populate our websites (and social medias) to help tell the story we want.
And while your photographers can coordinate with you during your photoshoot to capture “stock photos” that match your brand, I wanted to give you some other websites you can either download high quality images for free or purchase stock photography.
This article down into two sections: free photos & paid photos.
OBS:
While using free images might sound amazing because you are not spending any of your business budget on it, it also means more people might be using it than the paid photos. I have seen numerous times the same images being used over and over again on websites and social media by different people. So keep an eye out to avoid overused images.
I believe the best thing is to do a mix of paid and unpaid photos. This way you have a better, unique selection for your website.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, you DO NOT want to use images from Google on your website/social media/marketing. Those photos are most likely copyrighted! To avoid any legal issues, uses the ‘free images’ resources I share below.
Note: Links with a * are affiliate links of business I support and purchase from. If you use these links, I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.
Free photo resources
N O T E : The websites below provide “Copyright-free photos”, which are images that can be used for commercial and noncommercial purposes, and you do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer, although they appreciate it when possible.
1. Unsplash
2. Pexels
3. Pixabay
Paid photo resources
N O T E : While there are many paid photo websites out there, I am outlining those that are better tailored to wellness entrepreneurs
1. Kate Max Stock
While Kate photographs many different topics, she has a “food” and “lifestyle” categories in her photo gallery that have plenty of wellness-related images.
2. Styled Stock Society
This website sells beautiful stock images for your business through three different budget-friendly membership options. They sell everything from business, to lifestyle and wellness images. A lot of my website template photos come from here.
3. Wellness Stock Shop
Briena sells beautiful photography tailored to the wellness entrepreneur. Photos are available through single purchases or plans.
4. Creative Market
Type “health wellness photo bundle” on the search bar for wellness tailored images.
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