{"id":2231,"date":"2007-10-30T10:48:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/the-problem-with-stock-photography\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T14:48:21","slug":"the-problem-with-stock-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/the-problem-with-stock-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with stock photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but from the time that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?146\">Niagara SkyWheel<\/a> opened, they&#8217;ve been using a picture of the SkyWheel with a woman and a child in front of it. They have their backs to the SkyWheel and they are looking up. It has always annoyed me for a couple of reasons&#8230; You can definitely tell it is stock photography. Come on&#8230; be creative and take your own picture! The other thing is that the people aren&#8217;t looking at the wheel. They are looking away from it. Are they looking at the Casino Niagara tower? It just looks odd to me.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a screenshot from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?4\">Clifton Hill<\/a> web site (taken today) showing the picture:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/20071030_cliftonhill_website_skywheel_screenshot.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"20071030_cliftonhill_website_skywheel_screenshot.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My annoyance with the image for the first reason (stock photography) was emphasized yesterday when I found out about a promotion that Black&#8217;s Photography is doing. Black&#8217;s is a well-known, good quality store in Canada where they sell cameras, frames, develop pictures, etc. This weekend they are having a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1104\">Customer Appreciation Event<\/a>, and if you print off their invitation, you get a free 8&#215;10. Notice anything similar about the picture they used?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/20071030_blacks_customer_appreciation_event.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"20071030_blacks_customer_appreciation_event.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did Black&#8217;s use a HOCO photo without permission? Did someone submit a photo of this family looking at the Casino Niagara tower? I&#8217;m confused \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but from the time that the Niagara SkyWheel opened, they&#8217;ve been using a picture of the SkyWheel with a woman and a child in front of it. They have their backs to the SkyWheel and they are looking up. It has always annoyed me for a couple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}