I work hard to ensure that all images used on this noncommercial blog come from the public domain.

Lately the majority have come from Wikimedia Commons., but some also come from CreativeCommons and The Flickr Commons. By clicking on the image of interest, you will be taken to a page showing the photo and its source. Note that I don’t attribute in the way CreativeCommons suggests because putting their text on every image would look distracting. Since this is a low-volume website, I take the liberty of streamlining the process.

A few images come from commercial venues, usually sites advertising services. In this case clicking on the image will take you to the site of origin. I doubt all these photos are strictly in the public domain, but as this site makes no money and clicking the images takes you to the site selling the services, I believe most such organizations would be OK with my usage.

A few pictures were taken by me or (more often) my wife, and once published here these can be considered freely available for non-commercial use. Obviously, some form of attribution would be appreciated. You can tell which pictures we took, because they are the only images that don’t link anywhere else.

Very occasionally I pull a postcard off PostSecret. I haven’t been able to find its policy on copyrights, but I can’t imagine there would be a problem given the level of my readership and the infrequency with which I use its images.

If anyone has comments about these policies, and in particular if you object to my usage of any image, please either email me or leave a comment. Blessings.