Help with pic's
If you are taking images you found on Google, that's like taking someone else's webpage, copying it, and claiming it's your own. it's copyright theft.
Instead of doing that, go to creativecommons.org and use creative commons images which people have generously offered for use provided you credit them in the caption and link back. You can also find images you're allowed to use on Wikimedia Commons -- again, with credit and a link -- or on Flickr IF you used the Advanced Search which lets you limit the search to images people have offered with a creative commons, commercial license. (Commercial is necessary because hubpages articles make money.)
I also get free-with-credit-and-a-link images from stock xchng; stephanie posted their link above. (in fact, come to think of it, nowadays I often go there first.)
Also, most images posted on government-owned agency websites like NASA, the USGS and NOAA are considered public domain; check the image credits on those websites to make sure the images are by those agencies and not third party images they've gotten permission to show for a particular article. I have wound up writing a lot of articles on space and earth science because there's so many good public domain images available from NASA and the USGS.
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