Clearly, I am not a big believer in the power of photographic illustration for my blog posts. I had to laugh this morning, when I received an email newsletter with the heading, “Three Hurdles for New Businesses” and this illustration: Hurdler wearing socks
People who know me in person understand what I mean when I say, “both feet rarely leave the ground at the same time anymore.” I have never been a hurdler, or a runner of any distance, for that matter. I put the shot in high school. But even when I was in high school (back in the dark ages, when high school athletes first started weight training and Wake Forest football trounced the ACC because their players worked out in the gym in the off-season), hurdlers worked to get over the hurdles as smoothly as possible.
Good hurdling looks like this.
So what am I supposed to think when the illustration is completely wrong for the point of the article? I get that images are supposed to capture the eye and engage the mind and make your writing more interesting to the casual reader. Just sometimes, you create exactly the WRONG outcome.
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