So what’s the deal with your stock photos?
Like all photographers, we have thousands and thousands (oh so very many thousands) of photos just languishing on hard drives. These photos come from test shoots and personal shoots, projects both complete and abandoned, gigs tiny and large, and of course from various wanderings and adventures and peregrinations—essentially from anywhere we had cameras in hand…which frankly is pretty much everywhere.
So what to do with all this work? We want to give it to you. Totally for free. And with very minimal restrictions (basically just don’t do anything douchebag-y, and we shall be all cool). Check out our super simple license for the details.
Every week(ish), we post a new set of pics, usually based on a theme (e.g., wood textures) or a particular subject (like Seattle’s Space Needle). Whether you are a designer or other visual artist looking for compositing assets, or a journalist/blogger in need of an image to enhance an article, we hope you’ll find something here at 12Dot to complete your project.
Happy downloading and creating! Please let us know if you have any questions at all about our stock photos.
Why are some 12Dot stock photos listed as “editorial use”?
Some of our photos feature or include items, trademarks, or people that have not been licensed. Fair use allows those photos to be used in editorial work but not in commercial work.
For example, if you are writing a piece about bitchin’ dive bars in Seattle, you can include one of our Space Needle pics in your article. You can’t, however, create and attempt to sell a calendar with that same photo of the Speed Needle.
A number of our stock sets include trademarks that have not been licensed. We don’t try to sell those photos because the rights to do so have not been granted. Instead, we provide them for free as editorial use only.
You can, of course, choose to use editorial photos in one of your commercial projects, but that would be flirting with a lawsuit from the legal trademark holder. Just don’t do it. It ain’t worth it. And if you do, you agree to indemnify 12Dot when downloading an editorial-use photo.