>>> Google for creative commons images, or stock photography. Pay someone to
>>> take a specific photo if you want. Some people do this for a living.
>>
>> Sure. But it's damned expensive. Would you really do that just to enter
>> a little competition for fun?
>
> It's not like you trained week after week after week to enter a dance
> competition, right? I mean, who would do that for fun? ;)

I spent a whole year learning diabolo. Hint: doing that doesn't cost any 
money. I would think there can't be too many people who can just afford 
to blow $8,000 on buying some images just to enter a competition.

> Alternately, you can browser image hosting sites and look for images
> which have licencing terms that meet your needs.

What makes you think there will be anything with acceptable licensing terms?

> Or browse through your
> "My Pictures" folder. Most people will have something interesting in there.

It's empty?

>>>> - Lots of designs have astonishingly elaborate calligraphy. Again, not
>>>> something that normal humans can do.
>>>
>>> It takes a lot of practice.
>>
>> Indeed. It's a skill few people have.
>
> Yet, strangley enough, most people who make a living out of it are
> rather good at it. It's almost as if there was some sort of relationship
> between the two!

Well /obviously/ people can make money out of it, given that very few 
people are good at it. That's not really relevant to my point - a 
typical person wanting to put a website [or other publication] together 
can't access beautiful calligraphy. :-P

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