How a picture is chosen
Photographs are cropped and given a light wash so the type beside them stays readable. We do not paint words onto the photograph. The blue plates on the legal pages are type, not photographs.
The portrait on the practice page is Steven Palmieri. Beside the form sits a blue square with three bars, and that square is the practice mark. Neither one is a city photograph.
Home pictures are the ship channel, a notice on a desk, a bank statement with one marked row, a calendar open to September, a payroll register with the figures left blank, a set of house keys, and a drawn storm over rooftops. The notice, the statement, the calendar, the payroll register, and the storm are drawings made for this page. No unused photograph of an owner reading a bill, of a statement, of a September calendar, of a payroll register, or of a Gulf rooftop was free to use, so those five are drawings and the credits say so. The keys are a photograph of house keys. The ship channel photograph stays. Interior photographs are the house covered in cans, the blue glass wedge at the tall tower, the brick chapel, the restored courthouse, the livestock show on the dirt, the rocket engines in the hall, the two roofs and the houses around them, the folk-art deck, a low museum building, the horseshoe wall of water seen from above, and the reflection pool. Each of those interior files is used once. The livestock show file is the indoor arena. The aerial of the two roofs is a different file from the home pictures. The folk-art deck is not the restored courthouse. The rocket hall is not the museum building. Licenses on the photographs are public domain, CC0, CC BY 2.0, CC BY 3.0, CC BY-SA 2.0, CC BY-SA 2.5, CC BY-SA 3.0, and CC BY-SA 4.0, plus the Pixabay license on the rocket hall and on the keys. The picture log names the file and the person who made it, and it names the five drawings as drawings.
If a credit is wrong or a picture is not the place it claims, call +1 844-324-7273 and name the page. We will replace the file.