Friday Fun with Stock Photography

I love stock photography.

No, really. It cracks me up, thinking of how a company picked out an image for their advertisement, or billboard, or pamphlet that originally had nothing to do with whatever it is they are hocking. I also love the idea of these photographers just coming up with as many possible scenarios and mixtures of people doing different activities and displaying different emotions so that someday they can make it onto the back of a cereal box. (has anyone ever had the experience of pulling out your frosted flakes and finding yourself beaming back at you from across the table? That would be awesome!)

Of course, the best use of stock photography lies in textbooks, and I feel like I need an avenue to share the best of the best that I see on a weekly basis. So, from here on out I'm going to try and spend a moment every Friday sharing the picture that made me giggle the most. Most certainly, they will involve 80's haircuts. Oh look!


This is for the beginning of a chapter about listening to people. Obviously, right? The book that this is from was recently reprinted in 2008 - nice to see that they made an effort to keep it hip with the kids.