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65) Mayang's Free Textures
http://www.mayang.com/textures/

Mayang's Free Texures is a library of over 3000 textures from architecture, building, fabric, man-made items, metal, nature, plants, stone and wood. Images are high quality resolution at 1600x1200 or larger with most at 2560x1920.
All images are free for all uses except for selling and they appreciate credit. The site has a mailing list for those who wish to be notified when new textures are added.
The download limit is 20 textures per day. The site lets you know how many you've downloaded. Each image comes with a caption describing it. The aerial view of Paris and other locales are amazing. Not all images look like background pictures especially the autos collection. So don't let the term "texture" throw you off.
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64) Free Large Photos
http://freelargephotos.com/

Free Large Photos contains a collection of over 600 images and allows others to use the photos as long as credit is given and it's not used for making money. An RSS feed is available for the collection and here are the most requested photos.
Click any image to view its page and its full sized version and its categories. Each image comes with a short caption. The Paris Opera Garnier photo is gorgeous.
Get images covering outdoors, nature, travel, transportation and more. While it's a small collection, it's well done.
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63) Kingdom Graphix Gallery
http://www.kingdomgraphix.com/gallery/

The photo collection at Kingdom Graphix Gallery is free provided you link back to kingdomgraphix.com/gallery. You can even "alter, chop, slice, make psp tubes or brushes using these images" according to its Terms. Here's an unusual, but nice term of usage, "You MAY NOT use my images for ANY projects that include animal cruelty, hate, adult websites, religious defamation, violence of any kind or race defamation."
To download photos, requires free registration. Regular visitors can see what's new by clicking New Images. Also view the top images by rating, votes, hits and downloads. You can't directly access the top images from the list. Instead you'll need to do a search or click the category and find it there.
The site has over 900 images sorted into 20 categories. Other than regular photos, it has textures and manipulated images. The Ice Castle images are breathtaking. You won't get more than thumbnail pages until you register and the collection is worthy.
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62) NationsIllustrated
http://www.nationsillustrated.com/

NationsIllustrated showcases pictures from around the world with over 7,000 photos in its collection. Discover new worlds and hidden places by browsing through new photos, most viewed and top rated photos. Start exploring by picking a continent and see where your travels take you.
The terms of service isn't clear regarding photo use. However, you can select the images you like and add them to your downloads list. Once you've collected all the photos you like, download them as a zipped file. You don't have to register to take advantage of this feature.
You can send photos as an e-card and rate them. Every photo's detail page contains its file name, album name, size, dimension and more. The site also has a search tool for finding images by keywords. Some photos are breathtaking and give you insight into the beauty of our world.
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61) MSN Search
http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx

MSN.com is a large network that provides or links to news, resources, directories, guides, online applications and searches. Its search box appears through most of its network and when you enter a keyword, Images appears in the results page. You can also get to Images by going to the MSN.com home page.
When you get your first search results, the Settings option is available. Click it to change the display, results, SafeSearch, location and language options. The search results lets you know how many results it has found and whether you want it to display All, Large, Medium, Small, Color or B&W (black and white). All overrides everything including Color and B&W. If you have B&W selected and click All, then color images appear.
If you're not happy with the results or find a problem, click Help us improve that appears on the bottom of the results page. Here you can provide feedback from general comment and getting inappropriate images to copyrighted image and a problem. Click the image to get its details as well as the page it's on. MSN makes it clear that "MSN Search is not affiliated with the contents or authors of the page displayed below. We are not responsible for its content. The image may be subject to copyright laws." So check the image's page to find out if it's copyrighted or not. If it's yours, you can report the image.