Perhaps time for a little amusement. I find it hard to credit the warped ingenuity shown by some photographers. Imagine the trouble some have gone to setting up some of the most unlikely stock photography imaginable. Or perhaps beyond the imagination.
60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos is a good introduction, and for more there is a site devoted to the genre, AwkwardStockPhotos. But having looked at all 60 I wasn’t sure whether to comment WTF or OMG, though WTF seems the most popular response.
Surely some of the photographers involved must sit around making up silly pictures just to try and get featured there. Surely they cannot be serious! Though if you read some of the comments made in the 8 months or so this page has been around, some of them have actually been used.
Stock is a strange world, and some of the pictures that seem to sell best are truly boring images that no photographer with any sense would dream of making, rather than some of the bizarre concepts here. If you contribute to stock and it doesn’t sell well, I think you can always console yourself as I do with the thought that it’s because your pictures are too good!
Bizarre as some of the are real life isn’t often far behind, as I viewed them this shot, chosen at random from google images, came to mind.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/09/lady-gaga-meat-dress-made-of-real-meat.html
True!