The problem is that a lot of the images are copyright and it is not legal to take them and use them in your own works. You could get in trouble if you copied someone else’s photo from the web and used it without their permission. Here is a useful tip to find legal images that you can use in any way you like.
Go to the Google home page and down at the bottom of the browser is a Settings link. Click it and then select Advanced search in the menu that is displayed. On the advanced search page, enter the subject or object you want to find in the boxes at the top. Suppose, for example, you wanted to find some free images of elephants, you would enter 'elephants' in the top box.
Now scroll down to the bottom of the advanced search page and next to Usage rights, select one of the free-to-use licenses, such as Free to use or share, even commercially. Now click the Advanced search button.
This performs a standard web search, but then you can select Images to see image results. All the images are free to use, as per the license you searched for. However, you should always read the details on the website it comes from because sometimes you have to credit the photographer.
Click Search Tools at the top of the page and there is a menu to filter the images by license, which saves you having to go back to the advanced search page and start again.
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