Pictures: a person

[webofevil]

I’ve had cause before to mention the startling work of photo libraries, and I’m going to do so again. Yesterday’s Metro item about a college offering an online course in Wiccan studies was accompanied by this picture:



“Where the hibiscus are we going to find a shot of a witch using a computer?” a despairing subeditor no doubt cried overnight. I like to think that someone from the photo library, Workbookstock, silently appears, Jeevesian, behind his shoulder. “Here, sir,” he murmurs. “This should fit the bill nicely.” “B-but that’s incredible!” blusters the sub, staring at the photo he has been handed. “How do you always manage to...” “Will that be all, sir?” The man from Workbookstock cuts him off delicately, adjusting his neat, thin gloves. “Only there are many other publications who need our help tonight.” “Of course, of course,” says the sub, “let me just make a note...” And when he looks up from his hasty scrawl, the man has vanished.


However, the exact circumstances under which someone at Metro decided this was a combination of caption and picture it was worth bothering with at all lie well beyond the realms of fiction:

Comments

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

I believe the caption should have read "A nurse, yesterday"

[internetsdairy.livejournal.com]

But then they'd have had to cut the "Health:" intro, and then how would we know the context?

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

Maybe her sly smile implies that she is behind this threat to our hospitals?

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Thanks; I'm now one of those loons who laughs for no obvious reason on train platforms.