One way to avoid breaching copyright when you’re looking for stock photos: search specifically for pictures that give you license to re-use them.

My preferred browser has the strange name DuckDuckGo. When I search, it allows me to filter the pictures it shows by, among other things, the right to re-use images, under the term Creative Commons.

I daresay that you can also filter that way with other browsers.

The picture below is a screenshot from my browser. I was looking for a photo of dark woodland in the UK. I’ve added an arrow to show you the reuse information.

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When you find a picture you like, please be sure, if the information is available, to give credit to the person who shared it.

The Woodland Photo on the top is by @jplenio.

I used it during this week's [MM] Rescue Session, on Zoom, to mock up a cover for one of our course participants: