Stock Pics - A Canadian Take

[iamlost]

I love marketing with a bit of an edge and a dash of humour. Plus I'm Canadian.

So I truly appreciate the following post from CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) the .ca cctld registrar.

* Add a little Canada to your website [cira.ca]

Complete with a mild dig at our neighbour to the south:

Seriously, these are free?

Yup, like health care or love.

And, naturally, I immediately started singing Monty Pythons classic Canadian anthem: I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK

Ah, I do so love the smell of maple syrup and (Canadian) bacon in the morning...

[lucy24]

I sleep all night and I work all day

[iamlost]

It has been brought, privately, to my attention that the lumberjacks 'axe' is really just an hatchet not the much more appropriate larger double bit (or for that matter the chainsaw with the 48in (122cm) bar).

Let's just call it an art directors poetic licence with content as 'real' as any other patently stock photography. Indeed I took the 'axe' as well as the terribly pretty 'lumberjack' as a deliberate style play.
Note: being what brought to mind...
I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees
I wear high heels
Suspendies' and a bra
I wish I'd been a girly
Just like my dear pa-pa
(He cuts down trees
He wears high heels?)
We are an inclusive society...
And appreciative of farce...

It's all relative: I remember an illustration (1960s) in a British magazine of a Canadian 'logging truck' that looked like a flat deck truck loaded with stacked cord (fire) wood; my mom sent them a pic she took of a 'real' off highway truck with a single 20ft (6.1m) diameter 80ft (24.4m) long log... :)

[lucy24]

Seriously, though, what tickled me about the stock pictures was how much their labels sound like my image alts on the rare occasions when I can be knackered to write something properly descriptive instead of a global “clay pot as described in text”.

[NickMNS]

These look like shots from a Tim Horton's ad.