Bizarre Stock Photography

[Le Bateleur]

The likes of Shutterstock host millions of stock images, waiting to be used by content creators the world over.

Some stock photos (and stock photo models) have become memes.

Other photos are a little harder to picture an everyday use for...

This thread is for celebrating this second kind of picture.

 

[CatParty]

 

[ASoulMan]

 

[PantsOfDesire]

An image for an Internet start-up looking to dominate online sales of individual slices of bread.

Here comes their first customer

 

[Observatory]

I always loved these.

 

[Karen]

 

[PantsOfDesire]

We should remember that some stock photography, while originally strange, is often modified to suit its purpose in the media. For example:

 

[Airgetlam]

I have some but I don't want to clutter the thread so here're just a few:

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