Stock Photography Review
In honor of local primary election day--America's favorite non-holiday!--I figured it was time for a brief stock photography review of patriotic images.
Linking your company, self, or jazz fusion band to blind patriotic rage is one of the safest ways to reach customers while assuring you won't attract the anger of Bill O'Reilly. There are a lot of different angles you can go with though to ensure you're attracting the right demographic of Americans.
Average
Yep, that's pretty much what we look like. I think I even own that haircut.
Gun Toting
This photo really captures the toting.
It's perfect if your business is a private security company or a funeral home. See, this guy--let's say he's a bit of a maverick but likes to dress casual--will do anything to protect that mournful, sun-drenched symbol of glory behind him. Why? Hard to say, though presumably he's vehemently against Puerto Rican statehood. Anyone wanting to add a 51st star is going to need an even bigger gun (and a needle, thread, and cloth star).
The best thing about this photo is that if you Photoshop out the uzi it's pretty much a Ralph Lauren ad.
Post Traumatic
A quickly growing market!
The fact that there is a series of stock photos for this is horribly depressing. Use only if your company sells shame and horror.
Let's go out on a positive note with a non-disillusioned soldier in a poorly conceived uniform:
Ah, there we go.
I don't know what I like more, that this photographer's idea of a uniform consisted of a khaki shirt fully buttoned or that this might actually be what three-star generals wear on the weekend.
Fake uniform or not, the guy with the uzi is going to be pissed when he finds out this joker stole his flag while he was out buying white t-shirts at the GAP.
America!
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