Area Photo on Unsplash Downloaded 1,000+ Times

POTTSTOWN PA – An award-winning Pottstown-based news photographer reached another milestone Tuesday (April 28, 2026) on Unsplash.com, a popular website that offers images available for publication at no cost to users.

Joe Zlomek, managing editor of and photographer for The Post Publications of Pottstown and TravelsWithThePost.com, for the fifth time has hit the 1,000-or-more downloads mark for a single picture on Unsplash, owned by Getty Images.

The latest statistic applies to a versatile photo of a yellow road sign that warns, “Watch Children.” It is said to be popular among teachers and other educators.

Bloggers and website owners have used it and other Zlomek photos (57 are currently available at Unsplash alone) on public and private websites hosted at BuzzFeed, Wix, Sigma, Squarespace, Notion, Prezi, Trello, Typeform, Medium, Instructure, and elsewhere.

Four other photos by Zlomek previously surpassed 1,000 downloads. Of them, the most popular is a photo of a dripping outdoor faucet, with more than 5,500 downloads.

Top photo by Joe Zlomek on Unsplash, used under license

Among 420,000 Global Contributors

Unsplash, considered one of the world’s premier photographic communities for public image usage, benefits from more than 420,000 global contributors. It reports Zlomek ranks among its top 10% of contributors, with 3,997,569 image views and 19,257 total downloads since June 2018. Zlomek also contributes photos to five other free-for-public-use websites.

Most photos taken by Zlomek are used to accompany or illustrate articles of which he also is the author. He continues to report for and publish freelance articles and images to online news outlets and trade publications. Zlomek has been writing commercially since 1971.

Now retired, he also is is a former chief operating officer and publisher of newspapers in Pottstown PA, Toms River NJ, Terre Haute IN, Fall River MA, and Oneida NY.

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