Also, it occurs me that, as with novelists and the cover art, the author of pieces like this one may have absolutely nothing to do with the pictures used for the piece, or the captions assigned to them -- those choices might have been made by other people in isolation. I don't know that for sure, but I can believe that's what might happen, easily.

It'd be cool to know more about this point, too -- anyone in the industry care to comment about how photos are chosen and captioned for pieces like this? Or journo-posts in general?